One of the challenges of family history research is moving beyond names and dates to better understand an ancestor’s life experiences. Military records can be… Read More »The Paper Trail of Albert Hutchinson’s Civil War Service
Another Case of the Wrong John Crawford Apparently, ordering California death certificates and receiving the wrong CRAWFORD was a recurring theme in my genealogy research.… Read More »Friday Find
Real Examples from My Own Research Recently, Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings asked an artificial intelligence tool an interesting question: “Please provide a list of examples… Read More »Thinking AI and Genealogy
Lessons Learned from Google NotebookLM One of the most common complaints about artificial intelligence tools is that they “make things up.” Genealogists are especially sensitive… Read More »When AI Makes Assumptions
Bringing Albert Hutchinson’s Story to Life with Music and Video One of my genealogy goals is to preserve family stories in formats that make them… Read More »Albert Hutchinson’s Song
A DAR Application for My Ancestor Nathaniel Wells One of the pleasures of genealogy is discovering that a document collected years ago contains information that… Read More »Monday’s Diggings
Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It’s Saturday Night again— time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue… Read More »Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
One of my goals is to create biographies for my ancestors using the records I have gathered over the years. Today’s biography focuses on my… Read More »ABC Biography: Albert Hutchinson
When the Wrong Record Still Tells a Story Genealogy research rarely follows a perfectly straight path. Sometimes the record you want is missing. Sometimes the… Read More »Friday Find
One of the pleasures of genealogy is finding a record you didn’t know existed. Recently, Ancestry served up a hint for Cynthia Hutchinson, sister of my… Read More »An Unexpected Hutchinson Family Discovery