Creator of Cyndi’s List to hold talk

Cyndi Ingle, nationally known genealogist and creator of Cyndi’s List genealogy website, will be the speaker March 30 for the Georgia Genealogical Society’s spring event.

The all-virtual talk will be from 11 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. via Zoom.

Speaking on “Genealogy in Practice,” Ingle has an agenda that includes “Back to Basics: Research Planning and Execution Online,” a Social Zoom Lunch, “Crafting a Genealogical Proof” and “Ten Resources I Use Every Day: Miscellaneous Tips for the Online Researcher.”

The cost is $15 for GGS members and $25 for nonmembers. To register before the deadline, go to gagensociety.org/events and find seminars.

Ingle recently took over as president of the Institute of Genealogy and

Historical Research, managed by GGS and held every July, with registration already begun. Her own website is Cyndislist.com, where you will find all kinds of genealogy tips and links to various sources from all over the world.

FamilySearch.org tries AI experiments

FamilySearch.org has a new, AI-generated, search option in trial stages, and you can turn up a lot of information therein.

Go to FamilySearch. org and sign into your free account. Then scroll down to “FamilySearch Labs,” then select “View Experiments.”

You will see five experiments. The one I used is labeled “Expand your search with Full Text.” Once you dig into that one, you probably won’t have time left for the others, but if you do, there are four others to try.

In my search on the Humphries family, I think 240 or so documents, books or microfilmed material turned up. I was able to locate a 1936 funeral oration a relative gave at a rededication of the tombstone for my Revolutionary War ancestor. It was included in a DAR documents book from the Daughters of the American Revolution Library in Washington. So you never know what you can possibly find.

Use caution on ThruLines hints on Ancestry

A reader wrote recently concerned about all the suggested ancestors he was seeing on his ThruLines matches at Ancestry. com’s DNA area. You can change the filters to avoid seeing them. You can check carefully to see if any are valid. But always be careful with any hints.