Dive into the intersection of cutting-edge AI technology and traditional genealogy methods. Our panel of experts will discuss practical applications, ethical challenges, and the future of AI in family history research, empowering you to harness its potential responsibly. Panelists include
In a landmark panel discussion hosted by Legacy Family Tree Webinars, six leading experts in genealogy and artificial intelligence (AI) gathered to explore how AI is reshaping the way genealogists work, research, and discover family history. As the kickoff to the exclusive “Artificial Intelligence for Genealogists” series, this webinar offered an engaging and practical look at how AI tools—like ChatGPT, Claude, and others—can streamline time-consuming tasks, extract hidden insights from historical data, and enhance accuracy in family tree analysis. Whether you’re a seasoned researcher or just beginning your journey, this session provided valuable, forward-thinking strategies for integrating AI into your genealogical workflow.
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This dynamic session not only demonstrated the practical capabilities of today’s AI tools but also set the stage for an exciting year-long series tailored specifically for genealogists eager to work smarter. Ready to unlock new possibilities in your own research?
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It appears that one aspect of AI is the use of plain English to create instructions, “prompts”, for data extraction, tabulation and analysis. These things can be done by spreadsheet or database software by those who can use those. The AI approach would seem to take longer as generally an iterative process of refining the prompts is required to achieve the desired result. I find the text-related functions of AI more interesting, particularly the extraction of relevant information from large documents, summarization, creation of narratives and notably the greatly improved OCR functions, not least the handwriting transcription ones.
Kevin Rattigan
Oh my word Diana Elder, your Henderson Weatherford may not have been part of the other Weatherford families BUT all those other Weatherford families are MY family!!!! Would love to get any info you have on them. This is great stuff. My great grandfather was Money Weatherford. There were several generations of “Money Weatherfords”!! Just bringing them up in your example, I thought I was about to say “Cousin”!!
Thanks, Michael, for the comment! Send me an email and I’ll share that tax info for the family. Diana@familylocket.com
Great session, thanks to everyone. Looking forward to more upcoming webinars throughout the year. Inspired to update my webinar subscription after a bit of a break,
I loved the live demos! Definitely have to re-watch them and take notes. Right now I am just being dazzled 🙂
I use AI every day in my research but I learned something new. The @ (saved prompts) tip for ChatGPT made my mouth drop open. I LOVE IT! I just upgraded to the paid version yesterday and my goal today is to enter all of my saved prompts directly into ChatGPT (I have then in an abbreviation expander) and I will start using these prompts together as Steve explained.
The ability to save prompts is easily worth the $20 a month, and access to among the strongest models is makes the Plus subscription a great value, but the free tiers and models are incredibly strong and robust, as well, so folks will find their own price-value equilibrium. I like being able to save and share prompts, though. Thanks, Michele. Best, Steve
I am now officially hooked! Thank you for the wonderful overview and examples of what AI can bring to the genealogy table. I have hope for breaking down my brick walls and transcribing my hundreds of mid 19th Century letters. The panel provided excellent discussion and examples.
While I’m overwhelmed, I have recorded a couple of ideas to use AI in my genealogy process. I’m trying to organize and refine several aspects of my personal genealogy (locations, using the same repository/source/citation, trying to put information from several older family trees into one up-to-date tree); I’m sure by using what I’ve learned here and in future and past AI-webinars I’ll be able to do it with more efficiency and accuracy than I’ve been able to accomplish so far.
Makes me excited to think of all the ways AI can be used to save me time in researching and clarifying evidence.