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A New(?) Genealogy Program –Treebard - Blog entry by lkessler - 4 Mar 2024

One of the reasons why I closed GenSoftReviews last year was because the development of new programs for genealogy had been drying up. There are so many full featured genealogy programs available to choose from that there is hardly any task that at least some of them could do. And with the onset about 10 ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Mar 2024

Hi Dave, Yes, you have outlined several of the challenges that AI will have interpreting handwriting. These are all likely one-day solvable, for example with regards to your point on penmanship, an algorithm may have to be trained on the writings of individual people first before it can be generalized. ...
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Behold, My Genealogy, and Syncing - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Feb 2024

Over the past several months, I’ve been back to work on the next version of Behold. I’m hoping to release the next major version in the next …  - okay, a programmer knows better than to promise a release date, but let’s say as soon as it’s ready. Keep an eye on Behold’s Future page to follow my ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Feb 2024

There’s been a lot of talk the last year or so about the use of Artificial Intelligence for Genealogy. I’ve basically taken a laissez faire wait-and-see attitude towards it. Most of the applications of AI for genealogy are designed to save you time, maybe by drafting out a biography for you or doing image ...
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Continuing Education 2023 - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Dec 2023

Last January, the Association of Professional Genealogists  @APGgenealogy started requiring that members report at least 12 hours of Continuing Education each year. I found the task of listing my CE time for 2022 quite interesting and last January I posted what I had done. Below is my Continuing Education ...
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Testing Out MyHeritage’s New AI Biographer - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Dec 2023

My previous post ran through MyHeritage’s new AI Record Finder tool. Now I’m going to try out the other tool MyHeritage released today. You can find their blog post describing the AI Biographer here: Introducing AI Biographer™: Create a Wikipedia-like biography for any ancestor using AI, enriched with ...
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A Quick Attempt of MyHeritage’s New AI Record Finder - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Dec 2023

You may not have heard of this yet, but MyHeritage has just launched their new AI Record Finder. I got the email from them about it earlier today. Rather than me describe it, you can read about it on MyHeritage’s blog post:  Introducing AI Record Finder™, the World’s First AI Chat-Based Search Engine ...
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Ranking Genealogy Websites - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Nov 2023

Here’s a fun activity. Jarrett Ross, the @GeneaVlogger today posted a video where he ranks Genealogy Websites. He uses an interesting site I’ve never seen before called Tiermaker to do this. The site lets you drag and drop genealogy website logos into tiers that can mean whatever you want. The site ...
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Nov 2023

Maybe it isn’t for you, but it likely is for me. I’m not talking about using DNA to find close family members, e.g. if you are adopted or don’t know who a grandparent is. That’s still a big thing. And I’m not talking about forensic genealogy used for finding killers and solving cold cases. That is ...
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Is Updating the GEDCOM Standard Necessary? - Blog comment by lkessler - 23 Oct 2023

Bob: Personally, I would prefer a 25 year old standard that is used by 98% of the intended audience, than an "updated" standard that obviously doesn't have enough advantages to be able to attract more than a handful of developers to implement after more than 2 years. So something's not working. If ...