Anyone using FamilySearch AI feature? It is kinda stellar.
My genealogy bug kicked in again, but I didn't go to Ancestry. Just familysearch, cuz free.
And I focus on early 1800s ancestry, so the records I look for are vastly un-indexed. In fact, many of the indexed records on my family are so because I indexed them after finding them digging through hundreds of pages of documents over the years.
Well, I go to their catalog (the place with all the unindexed records) and see that their is an AI built into it now. And it searches for broad or specific topics and names in broad or specific areas.
I kid you not, that this thing found.... HUNDREDS... of documents on my ancestors, that would have taken an army of genealogists untold hours of labor to discover. I found wills, deeds, little notes probably buried in boxes, family histories, newspaper articles with the tiniest of print.
I found out my 3rd great grandfather went to jail for stabbing someone in the eye! I guess the guy made a comment about his wife. This from a newspaper that AI caught.
My 4th great grandfather was an early methodist minister. I only found like, two marriages that he performed. The AI found dozens across multiple counties.
It is just exciting. For people that are only above average at genealogy like me, this AI thing could be a massive game changer. Something that pieces all the vague parts together.