Where your ancestors lived shapes every record they left behind. That’s why experienced researchers build locality guides: organized summaries of a place’s history, jurisdictions, record sets, and repositories. Creating one used to take days of work. With AI, it doesn’t have to.
In this talk, you’ll learn how to put AI research tools to work building comprehensive locality guides for the places that matter to your family history. Mark will show you how to direct AI’s deep research capabilities to gather a location’s history, boundary changes, record availability, and repository information, and then shape the results into a research resource you’ll rely on for years. Along the way, you’ll learn how to verify what AI finds so your guide is built on solid ground.
You’ll leave knowing how to research any locality faster and more thoroughly, and with a repeatable method for building a guide for every place your ancestors called home.
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- Length: 60 to 90 minutes, including Q&A
- Formats: Virtual presentation or hands-on workshop
- Audience: Intermediate; basic experience with an AI chatbot helpful
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