Genealogy Meets the Internet Archive and AI: A Comprehensive Review

Thomas MacEntee
Jan 7, 2026
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Welcome
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Public Domain Access
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Popular AI Platforms
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Asking the Right Questions
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Writing Effective Prompts
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

Learn to harness the Internet Archive’s free digital library—a treasure trove of digitized family histories, city directories, census and church records—to enrich your genealogy research. Learn how to build complex prompts to build an index of surnames on a 400 page genealogy book from 1898. Learn how to extract a list of migration routes from the same book, organized by surname, then in generation order, and placed in an Excel file. With the help of AI, you can get the most out of Internet Archive.

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About the speaker

About the speaker

Thomas MacEntee is a guy with a love of punk rock music but also art history who somehow “fell” into the technology industry years ago. He left a lucrative tech career to pursue his love of family history and genealogy. Technology and historical r
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  1. KC
    Karen Cermak
    10 hours ago

    As always, outstanding webinar from Thomas.

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  2. BZ
    Bob Ziegler
    10 hours ago

    It’s anything BUT “business as usual” in 2026. Very informative webinar about A.I. and the next generation of research! Another “trip around the sun” … should prove exciting. Thankyou!!!

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  3. DH
    Diane Hall
    10 hours ago

    Wonderful as always. Thank you Thomas. Learned more about AI

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  4. BP
    Bev Peaslee
    10 hours ago

    I learned a lot from archive.org to Google searches, not to mention all the AI information. Very interesting.

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  5. RB
    Richard Baldwin
    10 hours ago

    Ver informative. My first webinar on your site. Enjoyed and benefitted from it. Looking forward to finding the outline, or rewatching at my own pace.

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  6. ST
    Sandy Thom
    10 hours ago

    Thank you Thomas. so informative

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  7. MP
    Michelle Panton
    10 hours ago

    This was my first webinar with Legacy Family Tree and found in very informative! Anxious to hear the next 3 on today’s Deep Dive into AI. I will most likely enroll in a membership!

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  8. JP
    Jean Plumtree
    10 hours ago

    Thomas is always loaded with a wealth of good information, as always.

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