Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
My Oldest Confirmed Record This week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun assignment asks: Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again — time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) What is "Your Oldest Confirmed Record?" What is one of the oldest documents you've personally found for any ancestor? At first, I thought this would be an easy question to answer. My immediate reaction was that the record was probably associated with either my HAMMOND or WHITE ancestors. Both families extend well into the 1600s in my RootsMagic database. But how was I going to determine which record was actually the oldest? With thousands of people and many more facts and sources in my database, clicking backward through generations wasn't very appealing. So I decided to see whether ChatGPT could help me find the answer . Searching My GEDCOM with ChatGPT I exported my entire RootsMag...