Call Number | Title | Book Info | Author | Date |
A-180 002 | Morgan County Illinois Atlas & Plat Book | Accurate Publishing & Printing | 1988 | |
G-B 180 | The doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women — and Women to Medicine | Nimura, Janice P. | 2021 | |
G-B 181 V1 | Burket/Burkett & Blin/Blinn Families of Kansas | V 1: Homesteading in Kansas: The John Burket Family Settles in Harper County | Rhea, Philip Lawrence | 2021 |
G-B 181 V2 | Burket/Burkett & Blin/Blinn Families of Kansas | V 2: John Wesley Burket 1874-1956 | Rhea, Philip Lawrence | 2021 |
G-B 181 V3 | Burket/Burkett & Blin/Blinn Families of Kansas | V 3: Mary Jestina Burkett | Rhea, Philip Lawrence | 2021 |
G-H 173 | Tilling Under the Rainbow: Six Generations at the Harder Farm, 1876-2021 | Epps, Melvin D. | 2023 | |
G-H 174 | Frank & Leona Davis Hickman Family Tree Book | Hickman, Frank Iris | 1986 | |
I-300 043 | Snapshots and Short Notes: Images and Messages of Early Twentieth-Century Photo Postcards | Wilson, Kenneth | 2020 | |
R- 667 014 | Wake Up, America! World War I and the American Poster | Rawls, Walton | 1988 | |
R-210 SG 344 | The History of St. Joseph’s Church, Wichita, Kansas | 1994 | ||
R-600 055 V 104 – 111 | National Genealogical Society Quarterly | 2016 – 2023 | ||
R-605 019 V 174 – 176 | New England Historical and Genealogical Register | 2020 – 2022 | ||
R-651 043 | The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage 1614-1775 | Coldham, Peter Wilson | 1988 | |
R-665 059 | Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War | Jordan, Brian Matthew | 2014 | |
R-665 060 | Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War | Silber, Nina | 2005 | |
R-665 061 | Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic 1865-1900 | McConnell, Stuart | 1992 | |
R-665 062 | Noble Women of the North | Dannett, Sylvia G. L. | 1959 | |
R-665 063 | Grand Army Women: The GAR and Its Female Organizations | Wolz, Robert J. | 2018 | |
R-665 064 | Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. | Jacob, Kathryn Allamong | 1998 | |
R-665 065 | Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War | Adams, George Worthington | 1952 | |
R-665 066 | Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War | Leonard, Elizabeth D. | 1994 | |
R-665 067 | Women in the Civil War | Massey, Mary Elizabeth | 1966 |
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June Alert Newsletter
Inside this Issue: June Weddings, New Books, Volunteer Needed, Items of interest, Calendar of Events
May AI SIG Notes
AI-Enhanced Search
- Never trust, always verify!
- Google Gemini
- Produces the AI insights at the top of some searches
- Click on the little link icon to get a sidebar with links to webpages.
- Google Lens
- ChatGPT
- Click the Search button or globe icon below the prompt box.
- In the results, you can click on the gray source bubbles and see the underlying search results for each paragraph. You can also click on the sources bubble at the bottom of the result and get a sidebar with links. You will only get the links the AI used, and not a complete search result list like google gives you.
- Perplexity
- Two levels of free search – search and research. Research requires a free account.
- Search gives you a tab for the answer and a tab for the sources.
- Resources
- PC Mag: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-ai-search-engines
- The Family History AI Show, by Mark Thompson & Steve Little
- Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence Facebook Group
- RootsTech will have 25 presentations (March 6-8): https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/
New Books April 2025
Call Number | Title | Info | Author | Date |
G-B 179 | Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone | Brady, James | 2010 | |
G-C 008 | A Genealogy of the Curtiss-Curtis Family of Stratford, Connecticut | 1953 Supplement | Curtiss, Frederic Haines | |
G-C 008a | A Genealogy of the Curtiss-Curtis Family of Stratford, Connecticut | 1975 Supplement | Curtiss, Frederic Haines | |
G-C 113 V1 | Carllson Family | V 1: John A or H Carllson | Keener, Margie Carllson | 2000 |
G-C 113 V2 | Carllson Family | V 2: Clarence William Carllson’s Family & Descendants | Keener, Margie Carllson | 2000 |
G-C 113 V3 | Carllson Family | V 3: Carl Emile Carllson | Keener, Margie Carllson | 2000 |
G-C 147 | The Chenoweth Family in America: Some Descendants of John Chenoweth b. ca 1682 | Harris, Shirley D. | 1994 | |
G-D 027 | The Dalton Gang Family | Samuelson, Nancy B. | 1989 | |
G-D 083 | Nevin L Dieffenbach | Scheer, Ruth Dieffenbacher | 1996 | |
G-D 087 | DeWoody Records: Chronicles of Three Families of the Name | Brightwell, Newton Edward II | 1989 | |
G-E 040 | Evans Family Cookbook | Evans, Beryl | 1991 | |
G-F 048 V1 | Flint: Family History of the Adventuresome Seven | Flint, Edward F. Jr. | 1984 | |
G-F 048 V2 | Flint: Family History of the Adventuresome Seven | Flint, Edward F. Jr. | 1984 | |
G-M 110 | The Life of William Mathewson ‘The Original Buffalo Bill’ | Crickett, Glenn | 1932 | |
online — link in catalog | New Thought Churches in Wichita, Kansas History and Structure | Macklin, Mary E. | 2007 | |
online — link in catalog | A Memorial of Francis Cook, One of the “First Comers” of the Plymouth Colony, December 22, 1620 and of His Immediate Descendants | Cook, Henry | 1870 | |
online — link in catalog | The Genealogy of Frothingham in New England 1850 | Wyman, Thomas Bellows | 1916 | |
online — link in catalog | A Genealogy of the Curtiss-Curtis Family of Stratford, Connecticut | 1903 Edition | Curtiss, Frederic Haines | |
R-210 BU 34 | The History of Butler County Kansas | Perrine, Elizabeth | 1932 | |
R-210 BU 35 | El Dorado: Legacy of an Oil Boom | Price, Jay M. | 2005 | |
R-210 CL 22 1956 | Winfield City Directory | 1956 | R L Polk | |
R-210 CL 24 | Moving Stories, Telling Places…Cowley County, Kansas | Botzow, Bill | 2000 | |
R-210 SG 335 1947 | The Hornet | 1947 | ||
R-210 SG 335 1948 | The Hornet | 1948 | ||
R-210 SG 335 1949 | The Hornet | 1949 | ||
R-210 SG 336 1929 NTBCO | The Last Leaf | 1929 | ||
R-210 SG 337 1954 | This Is Wichita | 1954 – 1955 | ||
R-210 SG 337 1959 | This Is Wichita | 1959 – 1960 | ||
R-210 SG 337 1960 | This Is Wichita | 1960 – 1961 | ||
R-210 SG 337 1961 | This Is Wichita | 1961 – 1962 | ||
R-210 SG 338 1926 NTBCO | The Wichitan | 1926 | Wichita High School | |
R-210 SG 338 1927 NTBCO | The Wichitan | 1927 | Wichita High School | |
R-210 SG 339 | Wichita and the Santa Fe to 1874 | Stevens, Charles R. | 1950 | |
R-210 SG 340 | The Founding of Valley Center | Rapp, Genevieve May | 1931 | |
R-210 SG 341 | Doctor Fabrique and Early Wichita Medical Practice | Brooks, Frances Wilson | 1931 | |
R-210 SG 342 | A History of The First Presbyterian Church of Wichita, Kansas | Stone, Ruth Spooner | 1935 | |
R-210 SG 343 V 02 | Wichita Local History Series | 02: Cannonball Green | Ellington, William Clark | |
R-210 SG 343 V 04 | Wichita Local History Series | 04: Ola Martinson | Ellington, William Clark | |
R-210 SG 343 V 08 | Wichita Local History Series | 08: Early Sheriffs | Ellington, William Clark | |
R-210 SG 343 V 09 | Wichita Local History Series | 09: Henry Clay Sluss | Ellington, William Clark | |
R-210 SG 343 V 10 | Wichita Local History Series | 10: John Marion Steele | Ellington, William Clark | |
R-210 SG 343 V 11 | Wichita Local History Series | 11: Eli Waterman | Ellington, William Clark | |
R-600 055 V 109 N 1 | National Genealogical Society Quarterly | V 109 N 1 (2021) | ||
R-600 055 V 109 N 2 | National Genealogical Society Quarterly | V 109 N 2 (2021) |
Alert May 2025
Inside this Issue: Profile of Julia Langel, New Books, Memorial Day, Items of interest, Calendar of Events
April AI SIG Notes
- Show & Tell
- Ethics and Privacy Issues
- Accuracy
- Large language models deal in probability, not truth. Outputs must be checked for accuracy.
- Ask the AI to cite sources – and check that they are real
- Training Data
- Large language models are only as good as training data.
- Biased data leads to biased outputs: article
- Confidential Data
- When you go to, say, chatgpt.com, everything you input may get added to training data, eventually. Don’t include confidential or sensitive information. (AI is actually good at helping to anonymize data, such as generating lists of names to substitute for the real names.)Assume everything that you type on the public internet is added to training data.New downloadable models run on your personal device. Your interactions are not necessarily uploaded as training data.
- Check the terms of use!
- Copyright, Trademarks & Privacy
- Purely AI-generated content cannot be copyrighted in the US. AI makes it really easy to generate illegal derivatives of copyrighted content.
- May you use AI to create images using Coke cans, Lady Gaga’s face or graphic violence?
- Most products have restrictions and guidelines. Grok (the X product) does not.
- Authorship
- When and how do we disclose the assistance of AI? If it is being used as a tool in a way similar to a dictionary or word processor – ie, as a tool whose results get filtered through a human brain – probably not. If it is doing unaudited work, probably.
- How to make sure future AI products can be distinguished from “original” products… such as images, letters?
- Environmental Issues
- Running a new machine learning model on a huge training dataset, and offering it to millions of users, requires huge amounts of electricity and water. Article
- Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy
- Resources
- The Family History AI Show, by Mark Thompson & Steve LittleGenealogy and Artificial Intelligence Facebook Group
- University of South Florida has written a very useful LibGuide on using AI: website
- Articles Recommended by ChapGPT
Bias: Ethical Challenges and Solutions of Generative AI
Respect for the Deceased: AI Developments in Genealogy and How They Impact You
Copyright: Generative AI in Focus: Copyright Office’s Latest Report
Terms of Use: Navigating the Legal Landscape: Generative AI and Copyright Law
Data Sharing: Privacy Challenges and Research Opportunities for Genomic Data
Living Relatives: Ethical Considerations: Navigating Privacy and AI in Family History
Citation/Disclosure: Disclosing Use of AI for Writing Assistance in Genealogy
Ethical Research: AI Developments in Genealogy and How They Impact You
Alert April 2025
Inside this Issue: Profile of Jim Scharnhorst, New Books, Irish Corner, Items of interest, Topeka Genealogy Conference, Calendar of Events
March AI SIG Notes
- News
- Show & Tell
- Basic technique – ChatGPT and custom GPTs
- Go to chatgpt.com and create an account
- Click on Explore GPTs and search or browse
- Once you’ve used it, a custom GPT should come up in your sidebar every time you log in to chatgpt.com
- The free account has limits on some activities, like uploading photos for analysis.
- Photos and Images
- Analyzing Photo Content (ChatGPT)
- Go to Explore GPTs and search on Steve Little
- Select Genealogy Eyes https://chatgpt.com/g/g-gmIAn5mh6-genealogy-eyes
- Drag an image file
- Type something like what can you tell me about this image
- Analyzing Photo Technique and Content
- Go to Explore GPTs and search on Steve Little
- Select Steve’s Photograph Analysis https://chatgpt.com/g/g-QOU2Au99i-steve-s-photograph-analysis
- Drag an image file
- Type something like analyze
- Newspaper Images (ChatGPT)
- Go to Explore GPTs and search on Steve Little
- Click on Steve’s Transcription Tool https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67a26e32a098819193de6784ad4cda13-steve-s-transcription-tool-v3
- Drag an image file with text.
- Type transcribe
- Or search on Mark Thompson and click on Historical Photo Analyzer https://chatgpt.com/g/g-gbEbpBXtc-mark-thompson-s-historical-photo-analyzer
- Google Lens
- “Search what you see”
- https://lens.google/
- Generative AI Images
- “Text to image”
- Fun, ethically tricky
- Dall-E: https://openai.com/index/dall-e-3
- Read reviews: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-ai-image-generators/
- Resources
- The Family History AI Show, by Mark Thompson & Steve Little
- Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence Facebook Group
- RootsTech presentations: https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/search?f.language=en-US&f.text=artificial%20intelligence&p.index=0
New Books February 2025
Call Number | Title | Info | Author | Date |
R-669 017 | Sioux Code Talkers of World War II | Page, Andrea M. | 2017 | |
R-667 013 | The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I | Meadows, William C. | 2021 | |
I-200 040 | Tax Records: A Common Source with an Uncommon Value | Eakle, Arlene Haslam | 1978 | |
I-200 024 | U.S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal and State Sources, Colonial America to the Present | Neagles, James C. | 1994 | |
A-620 010 | The New Reference Atlas of the World | 1921 | ||
online — link in catalog | An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Putnam County, Missouri | Edwards Brothers | 1877 | |
online — link in catalog | Yearbook of German-American Studies | German-American Studies | ||
online — link in catalog | Yearbook of German-American Studies | Journal of German-American Studies | ||
online — link in catalog | Yearbook of German-American Studies | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
March Alert
Inside this Issue: Profile of Ann Boll, New Building & Grounds and Membership Chair Needed, New Books, Irish Corner, Items of interest, Calendar of events