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Picture the Past: An Introduction to AI Images for Family Historians

Steve Little
Mar 28, 2025
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Speakers' Introduction
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Introduction
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Overview
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Text to Image
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Photorealism
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Generate and Edit
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Summary
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Live Demos
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

Learn how to use artificial intelligence to transform written records and family stories into memorable images. Whether recreating a long-lost family homestead or visualizing your ancestors’ daily lives, discover how today’s AI technology can add a new dimension to your family history research. This webinar will show genealogists how to use the best AI image generators available today and demonstrate the methods for getting the best results from them.

About the speakers

About the speakers

Steve Little
Steve Little is the AI Program Director for the National Genealogical Society, the founder of AI Genealogy Insights, and co-host of The Family History AI Show podcast, and he has lifelong passions for language, technology, and genealogy. Steve com
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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson is a professional genealogist and public speaker specializing in the application of artificial intelligence to genealogy. As co-host of the Family History AI Show podcast alongside Steve Little, Mark helps genealogists bridge the gap
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    Joy Lang
    2 days ago

    I learned many new tools to use.

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    Brian Boneham
    2 days ago

    Great webinar, will review the recording.

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    Consuelo White
    2 days ago

    This presentation alone is more than worth the price of my membership. The show and tell segment was extremely useful. I’m excited to get started on imaging to add to my family history writings.

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    John Martin
    2 days ago

    I have been doing genealogy for close to 20 years, and I take a lot of on-line classes to stay “up” on things, and this presentation was, w/o a doubt one of the best classes I have ever taken.

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    Dusty Oess
    2 days ago

    what a great presentation I really enjoyed it plus learned a lot.

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    Sharla Rausch
    2 days ago

    Amazing! How many times have we wished that we could go back in time to see our ancestors’ world? This may be the closest we ever get. This futuristic technology is helping us to touch the past. I’m already thinking about my prompts! Thank you for this series!

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    Graham Lowe
    2 days ago

    Wow! This was a fantastic introduction to using AI to generate images from text and also to artificially repair photographs.

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  8. AW
    Allison Willis
    2 days ago

    EXCELLENT WEBINAR!!! Definitely one to watch again and again too!!!!

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