DROP THE SHOVEL-AI IS DOING THE DIGGING NOW: Scribe Ai with My Heritage

 The "old" way that family history is being done is drastically changing. New technologies are paving the way to finding our ancestors more quickly and efficiently. FamilySearch and My Heritage have integrated in some aspects to make the finding of records and adding sources quick and painless between the to platforms. My Heritage also has a new tool called Scribe Ai. Now instead of one linear way of reading the information on a single record, Scribe Ai will now give a fuller picture of the record including information of the towns listed, practices of how the records were taken at the time, etc... More information means more success. The advancement of technology is surely part of the promise being fulfilled that the Lord's work would move forward at an unprecedented pace.

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Hello, I'm back from Denmark and Sweden, and so happy to have you joining today for um The Gathering Academy. Today is going to be short and sweet. I just wanted to make sure that I got this to you. Um this is kind of breaking, breaking information. Some of it's been around for a little bit, but I want to show you an amazing way that you can use AI to access your ancestors. Um, the tools that I'm going to show you actually helped me find three newspaper articles for my third or fourth great grandfather, who was a pioneer. Um, he already had 72 sources. I thought, what can this really find? And it actually did. But even more than that, um it's going to show you how you can unlock records, learn how to use records with AI. Um, so welcome to the Gathering Academy. If you are listening, you definitely want to go to go to the YouTube channel so you can watch. So I'm going to share and we're going to share the screen and share entire screen. So the first thing I'm going to show you is I'm going to go to where's my family search? It's not my family search. So here we go. We're going to go to the main page of Family Search. So on the main page of Family Search, go to Family Search Labs. You're going to click on View Experiments and you want to enable My Heritage Matches. So I currently have the experiment on. It's in a lab, so they're still testing it out. If you have any feedback, you can give it over on the left-hand side. There's other experiments you can try that are in here, but we're focusing on my heritage matches. What this will do is it will follow you on every person page. And if it can connect with some record in my heritage that is associated with your family, it will give you a hint. So I'm going to show you the example of here. We're going to go to search and we're going to go actually family tree. We're going to go to my recents. And I have Marta. So what I did, how I actually ended up here, is I did what we've taught before. I went back to my temple to my completed. And I'm pretty sure it was Marta. Let's look at her. Yes, she had just been baptized. That's all that's been done. So I'd been on my completed. I thought I'm going to go and see what I can find out for Marta. I just had a few minutes and I saw that she had my heritage matches for. It says it adds a spouse. I'm like, oh wow, children and a source. So I scrolled down and sure enough, currently no spouse. He could be floating around in the tree, but he may not be. So we're going to click on this add spouse and I'm going to say view hints. I'm going to leave family search, go to my heritage. And I'm already signed in, but if you're not, then you'll once you get to it, you'll need to sign in. And you can see here that I have four Swedish household records. Now, we've been talking a lot about Scandinavia the last few weeks, but this I tested this out in the United States. I tested it out in England. Um, I'm trying to think where else we tried it. Um, those are some several of them that I tested it out and I was if I was finding them. So if the record sets are in my heritage, so if you've got family from South America, see if my heritage has records for South America and just know that they continue to add more and more records. But it definitely works really well for Scandinavia. So I go to Marta. So I'm gonna go to the first one because look here, here says the husband and a marriage date. I don't have that. So I'm going to click review match. And right here at the top, it gives me the birth, the residence, the marriage date, the relationship to the head. She's the wife, and the husband is Gunnar Torvald Jonsson, and there's a daughter. I don't have either of those. So this is so awesome. So then I scroll down and I can see the original record, and we talked about that. That you can click on the little square in this top right-hand corner and it will show me the original. Or I'm gonna show you a fun trick. Um, and you always want to look at the original for sure. This came by Archive Digital. Here's the typed out information. So I've got birth dates and the names, the place I would need to go in and look at the original record to see, but I have a special secret I'm gonna show you in just a minute. Um, then I'm going to click attach in family search. So I click attach in family search and it's attached. Um a while back I showed you this feature, but it wasn't fully functioning. But if I go back to her, watch this. Let's go to her sources. And there it is. It was this one, actually, this is the old one. Um, let's see if it's source. I hope I it didn't I didn't lead you astray. So it should be on there. I may need to refresh that. Let's just refresh it. And it may not be working today, but if I refresh, it should show another one. And it's not. So it was working last night. Maybe they're still working it through, but just know that this is a potential. Test it out and then let me know what you find out. So I'm going to show you the next really cool thing. So it says it was attached and it should show up in there. Maybe it's just delayed. I want to talk to you a little bit about Scribe AI. So, what we're going to do is find out more about this record. This is using AI within my heritage. It's going to analyze this record, and it may take a second, so it may take a minute. So it's um, I'm going to do View Insights, and let's see, there we go. So now it's going to think. So, what it does is it examines the image, and I'll point out over here on the right-hand side, you're going to watch. When it's done here in the center, you're going to see it's going to tell you about historical context about this record. It will tell you what this record generally you can find in this record. Um, it may give you some other information about it. Then there it's going to give you details mentioned about the people that are in this record. And then key findings. And I believe we'll see it when it happens because I just have just discovered this and have been playing around with it the last few days. The key findings should be information about your ancestor. Then this is brilliant. It gives you the suggested next steps. So I'll tell you what happened with me is when I first tried this, I did this for one of my Norwegian ancestors. And one of the suggested next steps was to go look at newspapers. And I thought, oh, duh. I could go to the Norwegian National Library. They have free newspapers, and I could type his name in there and always put the name in quotes. I did, and two newspaper articles came up, and they were both about him, and it said he was a goldsmith or goldsmith. And I didn't have his occupation. I had no idea what he did for work. So I clicked on it. It's a lengthy article, and I could take time to try and figure out what each word is, and or you can scan it and I could get the gist of it. I I put it in Gemini, I snipped it, put it in Gemini, and it turned out that he and 20 others were being indicted for buying illegal silver from some thieves who were stealing from the silver mine. So he was put in jail for one to two months on bread and water. Never knew about this about my relative. I wouldn't even have thought about it. And so this little assistant helped me. So here we go. Some of you probably are already been scanning through this historical context. So it tells you that this is a page from the Swedish household examination book or for samling book. So now also all of a sudden you have the English and the Swedish, and you're being taught specifically for this Vedby parish in Skona. So I didn't I didn't even pay attention to what parish it was and what county it was. It tells me, and it tells me the years. And then it tells me a little bit about the historical context, why they kept these records, and then it'll tell me the structure to what I can expect in here. I can get names, occupations, birth dates, places. Do you see what an amazing teaching tool this is? Um, and then it gives me the significance of why this is important because it shows the turnover of families living at this place during this time where a lot of immigration was happening. So I can click copy to clipboard and then I can paste it into a Word document. I can paste it into my Roots Magic file. I could paste it into my family search tree. Now let's go to the next one. Details mentioned. So this is the focus person. So I had those flipped. So the focus person in family is Marta Amelia, and it says she's a wife born this date, 14th of July. Let's go back here. And she's born 14th of July in Perstorp. So it matches. Um, then here there's her husband. It says he's a farm owner, and then it said uh Hemansegar Eggare, and he um that's the Swedish word, and leather worker, and then you get the leather worker in Swedish, and then his birth date and place and their marriage date. This is incredible. So the one thing that it doesn't do, you do need to like you could take your phone, take a picture, or you could write it down. You'll have to manually enter these in. We can't just add them over currently, but is this not game-changing? I think it's amazing. Um, and so now I have a child, and then look at this a bonus. This was nothing that was mentioned in my hint on family search, or even when I got into those Swedish records, but when it analyzed it, it said, Jans Jonsson, likely Gunnar's father, a widower and former farm owner, born in this year and in Vedby, and he moved out to Kavinga in October 13th, 1922. All of a sudden, I now it's analyzed this whole thing for me. If I didn't know how to read Swedish records, I've just been taught. And then it gives me other people that are in this document. They could be relatives, they may just be neighbors. Again, I can copy this to my clipboard, I can put it in my research log, I can put it on family search. Now let's go down to the key findings. So this is going to give you some general insights to what's going on. It's talking about who's living in this neighborhood. You've got an accountant, a paper mill worker, a leather worker, um, and then some new discoveries. And then down here, suggested next steps. You can trace the property, um, investigate the American connection. It says Esther Maria was born in Massachusetts and is noted residing in North America. And then it gives you some specific steps for Marta to continue to look for her. Is this not incredible? Like if you ever thought that you didn't know how to do genealogy, Scribe AI will take you step by step, starting with one record that you can attach. And so now I can go into family search and I can add these people, and that's from one record. And then down here, look at this. There's a full text transcription. I could copy this entire thing and paste it into my Word document. If I'm writing a report for a client, I have this already done for me. It's so much time savings. And then there's some translation. Is this not incredible? We're gonna go a little bit more into it. I'm gonna show some other ways that this has opened up um my research just in the last couple of days. I mean, I feel like in my head, my husband just got a Tesla. Um, and when you're at the stoplight and you and it says go, you can put your pedal to the metal and you can go fast. And I just feel like that's how I am. I am blown away at at how fast this AI is helping us to be able to find our family. So with that, let me see if I can unshare my screen. Um let's unshare. Stop sharing. Um, my homework for you this week. My assignment is to go into family search and go to the main page and go to the experiments, and then you're going to um add on the my my uh heritage um record hints, sorry, and then just test it out. And I would love to see in your comments. Sorry, I don't get to them very, very often. I have a wedding this week and so it's a little, a little wild and crazy around our house. Um, but I would love to see what discoveries you've made or if it's helped you break through any brick walls. And stay tuned for another amazing, fabulous, fabulous find. I'm just I'm over the moon. I've had um actually several um things that you are going to be so excited to hear. So stay tuned for next week. Talk to you later.