ChatGPT for Genealogists


Some big news to share: My new book, ChatGPT for Genealogists: From first prompts to advanced workflows, is now available.
This book is designed as a “classroom in a book,” starting with the basics and moving all the way to advanced workflows for genealogists, professionals, and genealogical society leaders.
Topics include transcription, translation, transliteration, image analysis, genealogical reasoning, privacy settings, prompting techniques, deep research, agents, macros, database queries, and so much more.
Here’s the full table of contents:

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part I—Quick Start

Chapter 1: Quick Start

Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Prompting

Part II—Under the Hood

Chapter 3: How We Got Here

Chapter 4: The Anatomy of an LLM

Chapter 5: Cautions

Chapter 6: Advanced Prompting

Chapter 7: Advanced Features

Part III—Core Workflows

Chapter 8: Working with Text Documents

Chapter 9: Transcription

Chapter 10: Translation and Transliteration

Chapter 11: Reading Web Content

Chapter 12: Working with Genealogy Files

Chapter 13: AI as a Teacher

Chapter 14: Image Analysis and Interpretation

Chapter 15: Image Generation

Chapter 16: Image Modification

Chapter 17: Imagined Images

Chapter 18: Data Analysis

Chapter 19: DNA and Genetic Genealogy

Chapter 20: Genealogical Reasoning

Part IV—Professional and Society Use

Chapter 21: Professional Genealogists

Chapter 22: Genealogical Societies

Part V—Programming Assistant

Chapter 23: Code as Text

Chapter 24: Query Languages and Wildcards

Chapter 25: Date Conversion Macro

Chapter 26: Image Reviewer

Chapter 27: GEDCOM Parser

Chapter 28: Social Security Death Master File

Part VI—Ethics and Futures

Chapter 29: AI, Genealogy, and Ethics

Chapter 30: The Perfect AI for Genealogy: A Wish List

Glossary

Further Resources

The book is 8.5″x11″, 298 pages, color and is available a paperback and Kindle “Print Replica” on Amazon and as a PDF edition through Gumroad.
More information on the book, and free PDF with the table of contents, introduction, and a full sample chapter, can be found on the book’s website.

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