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Using AI to Write and Share Compelling Stories
Learn how to craft compelling stories that will draw your readers in and help them feel a connection to your family. Then learn the best practices for use with AI to enhance your work through words and pictures.
This beginner-level session is sponsored by the BYU Family History Program.
AI and Family History: Help or Hype?
Are you intrigued by AI tools but unsure how they fit into your family history research? Wondering whether you can trust AI with your ancestors' stories, or how to avoid introducing errors or bias into your work?This session is for family historians who want to better understand the role of artificial intelligence in genealogy - without the hype. We’ll explore the practical uses of AI for tasks like transcription, story writing, and research planning, alongside examples where it gets things wrong. You’ll learn a straightforward framework to help you decide when to use AI, how to interpret its results, and how to keep human judgement and historical context at the heart of your research.No technical background is needed - just curiosity and a desire to work more critically and confidently with AI. You’ll leave with greater clarity, practical takeaways, and a downloadable decision-making tool to guide your own use of AI in family history.
Attendees would benefit from a basic understanding of where AI may be used in Family History and some preliminary exploration of one or more tools.Discover Lost Details: Photo Analysis with AI
Do you have a photo collection with incomplete information such as names, dates, or places? Used appropriately, artificial intelligence (AI) can help fill in the blanks. In this session, we will combine your family history knowledge with AI guidance to uncover lost photo details. You will learn to identify what you know, what you are missing, and how to prompt AI to analyze your photographs. Demonstrations of specific AI tools like Google Image Search, and ChatGPT’s Genealogy Eyes and Photo Detective will show how AI can help identify people, estimate dates, and recognize places based on clues from the photographs and your family history knowledge. We will address AI limitations and how to evaluate its output. Leave with practical tools and clear steps to make AI your research partner, helping discover lost details in your photo collection.Analyze and Research Family Photographs with AI
Every family photo tells a story—but what happens when the storytellers are gone? Discover how artificial intelligence can help reveal the who, what, when, where, and why of your cherished family images.
In this practical session, you'll learn how cutting-edge AI tools can unlock the mysteries in your family photos. From facial recognition that helps identify unknown relatives to AI that can estimate the date a photo was taken, you'll discover techniques that transform frustrating mysteries into exciting discoveries.
Mark will demonstrate how tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and specialized AI-enhanced software can analyze everything from architectural styles to hair styles, helping place your ancestors in their proper historical context.
Whether dealing with unlabeled portraits, faded photos, or scenic images with no clear connection to your family, you'll leave with powerful new tools in your photo-research toolkit. Transform your mystery photos into family treasures!
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