Genealogy

 Configuration trivia Creating a Deepseek account was more challenging than I expected. They had a banner saying  Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services, registration may be busy. Please wait and try again. Registered users can log in normally. Thank you for your understanding and support. The process was typical. Give it an email and a freshly generated password, click on I read stuff, get a validation code in the email...   I started with gmail. I looked in inbox and spam. It took awhile. When I finally used it, it had timed out. So ok , lets try aol. ... (I really should get some sleep, there it is along with a letter from HCR in case social media decides not to share. mumbling about reauthenticating my PC needing the phone, which already had the code, but is still sitting by my bed. So how long does it take to drain the kefir without stirring?) ... No problem . And 12 hours later, after another email sent,  gmail is connected too. Securi...

 Let the comparison of Claude with Chatgpt begin. This was a new account. Had to verify email and phone for 2 phase commit. No password. transcribe exactly showed were the generations changed, and the page numbers. There were no tables, but when I copied and pasted the output the layout had columns that were lost in the claud display. recognize spacing is important to determine tables low lighted the text above the tables The headers of the table are specified : Haucks Born Died Spouses Born Died The headers became larger and bold analyze mentioned locations noticed a month with too many days noticed last date mentioned in document reunification and spanish flu I can explore several fascinating aspects in more detail. Which of these interests you most? Marriage and Relocation Patterns: There's an interesting story about how this German immigrant family established roots in specific parts of New Jersey. The clustering in Lyndhurst and Newark suggests possible community formation. ...

 Recently watched  a familytree webinar with a panel on the topic of Genealogy meets AI . I had rather dismissed chatGPT after a short talk at the Princeton Public Library and some experimentation.  The demos  have me trying to understand prompts and GPTs and see if I can get solutions to some tedious comparison tasks on my genealogy list. (Ironically a recent upgrade to MacOS Sequoia involved setting up Apple Intelligence, Siri, and chatGPT.) In chrome on my Windows 11 box, I signed into chatgpt (4 not the previously used plus with has the paperclip grayed out). Apparently share is broken - or payfor. So I am trying to copy and paste the more interesting bits. I used the paperclip icon to upload page 7 of a certain well known family document, and " transcribe exactly ". (I really need to rename my files.) It started transcribing the page and asked how it was doing. Things I told it included "The table format should be used for each set of children" and "the ...