StLGS Workshop: "Exploring AI for Genealogy: A Hands-On Experience"

StLGS Workshop: "Exploring AI for Genealogy: A Hands-On Experience"

Instructor: Jim Ross, StLGS Co Webmaster

Saturday, 27 September 2025, 9:00-3:00 p.m. (CT)

IN-PERSON ONLY, SPACE IS LIMITED!

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DESCRIPTION:
Artificial Intelligence is changing how we do genealogy—and you don’t need to be tech-savvy to take advantage of it.

Join us for a friendly, beginner-focused hands-on workshop where we’ll explore how tools like ChatGPT can enhance your genealogical research. Through short lectures, live demonstrations, and guided hands-on activities, you’ll learn practical ways to use AI in your own family history projects.

This workshop will show you how to use AI to:

Generate research questions and timelines
Analyze old family documents—typed or handwritten
Translate foreign-language records
Create bios, case studies, and research summaries
Analyze and interpret old family photographs
How it works:
Each topic includes a brief intro, live demonstration, and time for you to try it with help nearby. You’ll finish the day with a longer personal project based on your own records, with instructors available to coach you through it.

Is This Workshop Right for You?

To ensure everyone gets the most from this hands-on AI for Genealogy Workshop, we ask that all participants meet a few minimum technical and preparation requirements. This allows us to dive right into exciting and meaningful genealogical tasks—without getting bogged down in basic tech issues.

We kindly ask that participants be comfortable with the following:

Minimum Computer Skills

Copy and paste text between windows or apps
Navigate between multiple browser tabs and open applications
Find and manage files: Know where your genealogical images and documents are saved, and be able to upload or move them as needed
Log into websites and email on a laptop outside of your home environment


What to bring:

A laptop (strongly recommended) or use one of our society computers
Digitized copies of family photos and documents
An electronic copy of your family tree, either in software on your laptop, or in the cloud
Your ChatGPT login (we strongly recommend a Plus subscription to unlock full tools)


We also welcome users of Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity, but the demos will focus on ChatGPT.

Space is limited—register now to reserve your seat!

https://stlgs.org/all-day-hands-on-workshop
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>> ALL ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER <<

Attend in person at:
StLGS Office
#4 Sunnen Drive, Suite 140
St. Louis, MO 63143

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• Next Saturday, 23rd August, 01:00 pm, StLGS Class: "Finding the Truth in Family Stories" in Shrewsbury
• Next Sunday, 24th August, 01:00 pm, StLGS Jewish SIG: Understanding Jewish Cemeteries in Shrewsbury

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