The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

1739 Virginia Travelers from Pennsylvania by Carol on Piedmont Trails

Story of My Life: Introduction by Lisa S. Gorrell on My Trails into the Past

Research Resources

Beyond Sacramental Records: Find Family in Church Artifacts by Nancy Gilbride Casey on Leaves on the Tree

Colonial Roads & Genealogy Research by Carol on Piedmont Trails

Tech News

Lot of reaction to the new MyHeritage AI Tools:
Introducing AI Biographer: Create a Wikipedia-like Biography for Any Ancestor Using AI, Enriched with Historical Context by Erica on MyHeritage Blog

Introducing AI Record Finder, the World’s First AI Chat-Based Search Engine for Historical Records by Erica on MyHeritage Blog

Review of MyHeritage’s New AI Based Search Tool by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES

MyHeritage AI Biographer Feature is Only on Family View by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Testing Out MyHeritage’s New AI Biographer by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy

A Quick Attempt of MyHeritage’s New AI Record Finder by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy

and also to Ancestry’s ProTools:
Trying Ancestry’s Pro Tools Suite: Map View by Marie Cooke Beckman on MarieB’s Genealogy Blog

Unviewed Results Only – Another Ancestry Pro Tool by Doris Kenney on A Tree with No Name

Patience Required for Ancestry’s New Media Item Categories by Doris Kenney on A Tree with No Name

Genetic Genealogy

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Methodology

The Magic of Old Photos and Modern Technology: Memories of Parkchester by Amy Cohen on Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

How You Can Profit from Daily Research by Janine Adams on Organize Your Family History

Education Is for Everyone

Continuing Education 2023 by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy

3 Projects Make Your Genealogy Document Images Perfect by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree

Patterns & Intersections in Genealogy by Kelly on Wheaton Wood

Keeping Up with the Times

The Legal Genealogist’s Christmas & Holiday Wish 2023 by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist

Who Owns Government Records? Work Product, Ancestry, Reclaim the Records, Freedom of Information Acts, Copyright, and Lots of Other Issues by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star