Category: Family History

  • Writing Family History with AI

    The Four-Step Workflow for a Polished Narrative To move safely from a messy profile to a published-quality draft, follow this structured technologist’s workflow. Use these exact prompts to maintain control over the process. [Substitute your data in the square brackets.] Step 1: Analyse (The Groundwork) Upload your raw timelines and notes. Ask the AI to…

  • A Letter from Coach Carole:

    Dear friends, On AI, Change, and Thinking Well There are moments in our professional lives when we sense that something is shifting — not dramatically, not loudly — but steadily and unmistakably. February and March have felt like that. Yes, we have been immersed in the AI Bootcamp. There have been lessons, experiments, thoughtful questions…

  • Boost Your Genealogy Writing with AI Master Prompts

    How to Create Your Master Prompt and Transform Your Family History Writing Artificial intelligence is reshaping the genealogical landscape—not by replacing the researcher, but by empowering them. When used thoughtfully, AI becomes a partner that strengthens our accuracy, speeds up our writing, and inspires deeper storytelling. The real revolution is not in automation—it’s in amplification.…

  • AI and Your Family History:

    5 Unexpected Lessons from a Genealogy Bootcamp by Carole McCulloch: AI and Your Family History: by Carole McCulloch 5 Unexpected Lessons from a Genealogy Bootcamp Read on Substack https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js

  • The AI Genealogy Revolution: Streamlining Ancestor Profile Creation with Comet & Perplexity

    Are you looking for ways to speed up the process of writing ancestor profiles while keeping your research accurate and comprehensive? The latest episode of “The AI Genealogy Revolution” (Episode 5, Part 2) offers an inspiring demonstration of how combining the Comet browser and Perplexity Assistant can save you hours—if not days—on narrative creation for…

  • Beyond the Basics:

    How an AI Workflow Can Revolutionise Genealogy Projects Notes about images!  Each image below was generated inside this Google Doc using the latest feature inside the Image function – called Generate an image. The first image from this prompt and subsequent images using a pull quote. Title image prompt (for Gemini 2.5): A genealogist’s desk…

  • The AI Genealogy Revolution: Building an AI Genealogy Workflow

    Summary The video titled “The AI Genealogy Revolution” introduces an AI-powered workflow designed to enhance genealogical research and storytelling. Coach Carole shares insights from her own experience, emphasizing how AI tools can streamline the cumbersome genealogical process, which traditionally involved scattered notes, lost files, and inconsistent research methods. By integrating AI technologies such as ChatGPT,…

  • AI Skills for Your Family History Journey

    Hello NextGen genealogists, Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we explore our family histories. Tools that use natural‑language processing can rapidly extract names, dates, and locations from records, and machine‑learning algorithms can help predict family relationships in large datasets. Yet AI isn’t a silver bullet; models like ChatGPT can produce plausible but inaccurate information, so…

  • Untangling the Threads of Ancestry in a Blog

    Ten Prompts for Writing Better Family History Blogs I often watch for innovative and engaging tips from other writers and course developers in my emails and social media. This morning I was delighted to see a message from Robert from Dabble in my inbox. In that post, he shared a batch of writing prompts for…

  • Accelerating Genealogy with AI: Engineering Prompts for Chat GPT

    Master the Art of Prompting through Blaine Bettinger’s 10 Key Strategies and Practical Examples Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in genealogy, providing researchers with novel techniques to solve problems and find their family history. Based on the GPT-4 architecture, the Chat GPT is a strong AI tool that can assist…