Think you need to be a tech wizard to use AI for family history research? Think again.
In the lead article, Break Down Your Brick Walls Using AI, James Ransom shows exactly where AI can help solve genealogical puzzles — and, just as importantly, how far to trust it and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Also in this issue, Loren Potts profiles Zoe Ball, Amy Dowden, and Joe Swash, the three subjects featured in the new BBC series of Who Do You Think You Are? — a great introduction if you’re unfamiliar with, and at all interested in, these British personalities.
The third feature, Miniature Marvels, sees Nicola Lisle trace how dolls’ houses evolved from aristocratic status symbols to beloved children’s toys.
Elsewhere in the issue, Julie Kathleen Johnson’s Settlement and Removal Records explains how to use these essential Poor Law documents to research ancestors who fell on hard times, while Anthony Adolph offers expert guidance on tracing aristocratic ancestors using Burke’s Peerage.
I just borrowed this issue through Libby and look forward to digging into it…