Challenge Accepted! Elizabeth Takes the WikiTree Challenge
In this episode, Tami and Elizabeth discuss Elizabeth’s participation in the August WikiTree Challenge with special guest Eowyn Langholf, WikiTree Community Manager. They delve into the unique aspects of WikiTree, emphasizing its community-driven approach.
In the What’s Happening segment, Elizabeth shares news about babies born recently using a 3-parent IVF technique. Tami discusses creating AI biographies and videos using tools from Storied and MyHeritage.
During Teatime, Elizabeth spills the tea on the California Digital Newspaper Collection, which received needed funding, and then let all the employees go anyway. Tami spills even more tea on strange genealogy job postings.
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TIMESTAMPS
- 00:00:00 Intro
- 00:03:08 What Elizabeth is working on: DAR Applications and the Inheritance Project
- 00:05:52 What Tami is working on: Visualizing Genealogy Data
- 00:07:33 Interview with Eowyn Langholf, WikiTree Community Manager
- 00:20:09 About the WikiTree Challenge
- 00:22:37 Preparing for the Challenge
- 00:27:36 The WikiTree Challenge Process
- 00:32:21 The Growth and Accuracy of WikiTree
- 00:32:50 Future Aspirations for WikiTree
- 00:38:44 What’s Happening: Three-Parent IVF
- 00:40:52 What’s Happening: The Internet Archive and the GPO
- 00:42:29 What’s Happening: Enhancing Biographies with AI using Storied and MyHeritage
- 00:52:50 Teatime: California Digital Newspaper Collection
- 00:55:22 Teatime: Genealogy Jobs
- 01:00:26 Outro
RESOURCES
- The DAR Inheritance Project
- WikiTree
- Elizabeth’s WikiTree Challenge
- 8 babies born with experimental 3-parent IVF technique
- The Internet Archive
- Federal Depository Library Directory
- GPO makes available Supreme Court cases dating back to the 18th century
- Storied U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918
- MyHeritage’s AI Biographer™
- MyHeritage’s Deep Story (desktop version)
- Losing Our History? Funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of the Employees Responsible for the Project Anyway
- ConferenceKeeper’s Genealogy Jobs
- Genealogy Jobs Facebook Group
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