Artificial Intelligence SIG

Bloggers

• GeneaMusings by Randy Seaver - Especially his page of AI related posts
• AI Genealogy Insights by Steve Little
• Genealogy with Dana Leeds - Especially her articles on AI

Custom GPT Examples

• The Best GPTs of ChatGPT
• Census questions from 1790 - 1950 U.S. Census by BG

Custom GPT Instruction

• How To Create Custom GPTs - Build your own ChatGPT
• Build GPTs the Right way - 20 Custom Instructions Included
• A Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners
• How I coded an Entire Website Using ChatGPT

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

• Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence - Blaine Bettinger
• Search FB for "Artificial Intelligence"

General Information

• Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
• Future Tools - Latest Developments in AI

Large Language Models

• Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
• Chatbot Arena
• Zapier - Best Large Language Models of 2026
• Google Search for current list of 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)
  • Blubrry.com - Podcast episodes, Sequence: Last In First Out
  • Podcast episode list at Genealogy Insights
  • Apple Podcasts - Apple hosts this podcast and many others.
  • Search for The Family History AI Show podcast
• The OpenAI Podcast Hosted by Andrew Mayne
  • Interview Nick Turley and Mark Chen July 1, 2025, 1:07
• 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
  • Apple Podcast
  • Website
  • YouTube Channel
• 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

• Episode 8 of The Family History AI Show @13:55 min
• Learn Prompting
• Style Modifiers
• Writing Prompts for AI by GoDaddy.com - Nick Turley and mark Chen, All about ChatGPT

Webinars

• FamilyTree Webinars, AI videos only $49/yr, occasionally some are free.

4th Monday
March 23, 2026, 7pm on Zoom

Topic: Personalizing ChatGPT and Gemini

• 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

• Mar 2026 - More Personalization
• Feb 2026 - Overview of Gemini and ChatGPT
• Nov 2025 - Personalization
• Oct 2025 - Custom GPTs and using Canva with ChatGPT
• Jul 2025 - AI Workshop
• Jun 2025 - OpenAI's ChatGPT
• May 2025 - Google's Gemini
• Apr 2025 - Prompt Engineering
• Feb 2025 - Genealogy Use Cases
• Jan 2025 - Prompts from Images
• Nov 2024 - NotebookLM
• Oct 2024 - Images
• Sep 2024 - Chatbots

2026 Some 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.

Uses of AI in Genealogy

• Create narratives from a person's events
• Generate images from spoken or typed words
• Transcribe handwriting
• Interpret text and objects from images
• Recommend research sources
• Reform data into tables
• Summarize text
• Transcribing text from video or audio
• Translation between languages

GPT LLM Chatbots & Owners

U.S. Big Three are highlighted

• 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}
• LLaMA - Meta
• Perplexity - Perplexity
• Qwen - AliBaba {Chinese}

Too Good To Be True

• Sneos.com - Compares chats using ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude, side by side

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