Hi, Friends:
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday, I’m finding plenty to be grateful for—family, friends, colleagues, and the wonderful group of students with whom we spent this fall. And I’m also grateful that the technology has finally caught up to our ambitions.
Mark and I had a great time with our recent “Introduction to Family History AI” course, and we’re excited to announce the next step. We also just wrapped recording Episode #38 (our Thanksgiving episode!), where we cover the release of Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro. If earlier releases this year felt incremental, these Google releases mark the first true step-change since March 2023—from in-image text rendering that finally works to the ability to generate accurate infographics and perfectly rendered, decorated, and stylized family trees and pedigree charts. The torch has seemingly passed from OpenAI to Google Gemini.
We’ll be teaching these tools (along with Claude 4.5 and GPT-5.1) starting in January.
Best, Steve
🚀 New milestone for our team: we’re opening enrollment for “Advanced Family History AI,” a five-week, hands-on course designed for genealogists who have outgrown the basics and are ready to power their research with this new class of models.
🗓️ When & how it runs
- Live on Zoom Tuesdays, 1-3 PM ET, Jan 20 → Feb 17, 2026
- Ten hours of real-time instruction, plus recordings you can replay for two months
- Weekly hands-on exercises and access to an engaged learning community
💡 Why we built it
Many users tell us they’re using AI but feel like they’re just scratching the surface. This course takes you deeper—into advanced prompting, context engineering, AI-based deep research, and intelligent image and document analysis. You’ll move beyond simple chat to build professional genealogical workflows.
💵 Cost: $249 for the full series; seats are limited.
👉 Details & registration: https://tixoom.app/fhaishow/
If you know someone who’s ready to level up their research workflow, pass this along. We can’t wait to get started.
—Steve & Mark
