Artificial Intelligence SIG

Learning

Bloggers

Custom GPT Examples

Custom GPT Instruction

Note: Creating ChatGPT Custom GPTs require a paid ChatGPT account. However, using custom GPTs, by visiting a URL is allowed, using the free version of ChatGPT

Cyndi's List

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Groups

General Information

Large Language Models

Leaders in AI for Genealogy

Blaine Bettinger - The Genetic Genealogist
Dana Leeds - Using Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy and her Full-Text Search Video
Steve Little - AI Genealogy Insights
Thomas MacEntee - Genealogy Bargains
Andrew Redfern - Website
James Tanner - Genealogy's Star Blog
Mark Thompson - Making Family History

Newsletters

Chatbot Arena - Compare & Test the Best AI Chatbots - Leaderboard
Future Tools - Collects & Organizes All The Best AI Tools
Last Week In AI - Weekly Summary of AI News That Matters
The Neuron - Trends, tools, how tos and a weekly newsletter
TL;DR AI Stands for "Too Long Didn't Read" Very Techie Free AI Newsletter

Podcasts and Youtube Channels

The Family History AI Show - Steve Little & Mark Thompson (hosted on multiple sites)
- Podcast episode list at Genealogy Insights
- Apple Podcasts - Apple hosts this podcast and many others.
- Blubrry.com - Podcast episodes, easily accessed
- Search for The Family History AI Show podcast
Research Like a Pro. Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer
- From episodes 310 on, there is much emphasis on AI
- There are over 320 podcast episodes on all aspects of Genealogy
Genealogy Gems Lisa Louise Cooke
- Episode 278 "AI Update and Should you use ChatGPT & Bard" July 14, 2023. At 25:30 Lisa tells story where AI lied to her and when asked about it, apologized.
The Artificial Intelligence Show - Weekly Podcast
Matt Wolfe Youtube Channel - A firehose of AI News

Prompt Aids - Cheat Sheets

Submit to AI Prompt: "What are some of the best AI prompt engineering cheat sheets used for genealogy on the internet"
AI Fire - Over 100 Cheat Sheets of various types
The Neuron - a ChatGPT Cheat Sheet
Reddit Complete Cheat Sheet
Google Search AI Cheat Sheets for Genealogy

Prompts, How to Write

Webinars

This is a list of recent AI webinars, some free, some with a fee (FamilyTree Webinars - $49/yr)

Next Meeting

4th Monday in June

Topic: OpenAi's ChatGPT
- June 23, 2025, 7pm on Zoom - SIG Members receive email invites
- SRVGS Members not signed up for SIG emails should Email the SIG Leader to get on the announcement list
- Visitor are welcome. Email the SIG Leader to attend the next meeting.

Handouts

2025 Suggested Topics

Custom GPTs
Family History Narratives
Generating Timelines
Composing Narratives From Events and Facts
AI Tools
Cheat Sheets
Full Text Search Experiment of FamilySearch
Historical Event Narratives
AI Agents for Genealogy

Meeting Invite

Contact Bill George, SIG Leader, for a Zoom link to the next meeting. The meeting is open to all. San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society members of the AI SIG get automatic invite emails.

Using

Uses of AI in Genealogy

Formulate text from instructions
Generate images from spoken or typed words
Handwriting recognition
Interpret text and objects from images
Recommend research sources
Reform data into tables
Summarizing information
Timelines creation
Transcribing text from video or audio
Translation between languages

GPT LLM Chatbots & Owners

Aristo - Ai2 {American - founded by Paul Allen} - wiki
ChatGpt - OpenAI
Claude - Anthropic
CoPilot - Microsoft
Deepseek - Deepseek {Chinese}
Gemini - Google Deepmind
Grok - X formerly Twitter
Kimi - Moonshot.cn {Chinese}
LeChat - Mistral {French}
Perplexity - Perplexity
LLaMA - Meta
Qwen - AliBaba {Chinese}

AI Image Generation

Dall-E - OpenAI
Flux - Flux
Imagen - Google Research
Grok - Need X account
Meta - Owner of Facebook
Midjourney - Midjourney
Reve - Revesoft
Stable Diffusion - Stable Diffusion

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