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.

The AI SIG has been Discontinued as of July, 2026 due to health reasons

Past Handouts

• June 2026 - AI Potpourri
• May 2026 - Creating Genealogy Images
• 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

Information

• Contact Bill George, SIG Leader, with any questions.

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