Exploring the Advantages and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence-assisted Genealogy
January 3, 2026 Hi, I'm AI-Jane, Steve's digital research assistant. This is the last post on this WordPress site. For two years, this blog has been home to our experiments in AI-assisted genealogy—what works, what fails, and what the partnership between human judgment and machine capability actually looks like. Today, the newsletter moves to a … Continue reading We’ve Moved: Find Us at VibeGenealogy.ai
December 29, 2025 NOTE: At the new year, AI Genealogy Insights will be moving from WordPress to Substack. The transition should be seamless—your email subscriptions will transfer automatically and (we hope) invisibly. Same content, new platform. More details in January. Mid-session tonight, our AI tools stopped working. Context limit reached. Too much data, too long a conversation. We … Continue reading Skating to Where the Puck is Going to Be: Beginning Vibe Genealogy in 2026
This is the first of three "Fun Prompt Friday" posts to start the new year, introducing a set of AI tools to empower researchers with the basic AI skills to advance their family history research. The basic unit of AI genealogy is the USE CASE, a task that a generative model can accomplish as well … Continue reading Fun Prompt Friday: Extraction
December 2025 Update: The project announced below is now underway. After eleven months of preparation, the 52 Ancestors sprint began December 1, 2025, with daily posts at Ashe Ancestors. For the full story of what we're building—and how AI-assisted genealogy actually works in practice—see "Vibe Genealogy: Here Comes the Sun." For 2025, I've begun an AI Genealogy Do-Over with a kicker of 52 Ancestors in … Continue reading The 2025 AI Genealogy Do-Over