Using ChatGPT in Family History (or anything) - 5 Prompts that WILL Work

Published 2024-03-28
How to use ChatGPT EFFECTIVELY. Family history and genealogy research can be greatly benefitted with this powerful A.I. tool. Join me and Steve Little, the director of artificial intelligence for the National Genealogical Society as we discuss what to NOT do and what TO do to use this tool wisely. It can make so many things much easier for you as you discover your family.

We will delve into the powerful ways ChatGPT can bolster your family history research from generating detailed ancestral stories to translating old documents into understandable language, discover the innovative applications of ChatGPT that can revolutionize genealogy.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - ChatGPT for Family History Research
0:38 - Meet Steve Little: Using AI in Genealogy
0:44 - Limitations of ChatGPT
2:17 - Accuracy Issues with ChatGPT
3:43 - Capabilities of ChatGPT
10:36 - Effective Phrases for ChatGPT Interaction
14:30 - ChatGPT in Genealogical Research
16:02 - Translating Foreign Documents with ChatGPT

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All Comments (11)
  • @Michelle-qq4vv
    Great interview. I haven't yet used ChatGPT for genealogy. This has been the most straightforward, clear, practical information I've seen so far. I plan to type up some of the phrases he suggests and save them in a Word document. Amazing stuff!
  • @janicebond5492
    This was very useful. The hardest part for me is refining my prompt. It was so nice that Steve gave a specific five step approach and then gave five different examples. Great interview!
  • @suehadden625
    Very interesting information once I figured out what you were talking about. Having a short intro on what ChatGPT is would have been helpful.
  • I’m taking a brute force route for my favorite family to research and just transcribing every record under that surname in the county before 1890, spitting it all to ChatGPT and seeing if it successfully does the critical thinking for me.
  • @jeanathey767
    When talking about feeding a multi-page document into the prompt (such as a long will), it would help to know specifics, such as "Can I scan this document in?" A few simple hows associated with the various examples he used in the beginning of the interview would be helpful when relying on printed documents rather than simple word/phrase prompts. Fascinating bot to be sure.
  • @patranye
    Very interesting interview. I've let ChatGPT scare me off. But now with the helpful prompts and knowing how to word them to get what I'm hoping for I might give it a try.
  • @maggierose5820
    So i did what steve said (i think) and was told chatgpt wasn't a genealogy expert. Maybe my question was wrong?
  • @dranet47
    AI is really fascinating, but scary at the same time.