A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) & ChatGPT at Ancestry - How it's Used & What's in Store in 2023

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How does Ancestry.com use A.I. to help you find your ancestors and build your family tree? The world of genealogy is opening up with ChatGPT and other A.I. advances. It's an exciting time! What is Ancestry working on next?
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0:00 Intro with Crista Cowan of Ancestry
0:39 How Ancestry has been using A.I. (Hints, DNA Matches, Census Indexing, etc.)
1:00 Handwriting recognition
1:21 Next evolutions of A.I. at Ancestry (1931 Canada Census and more)
2:57 History of online access to Ancestry's records
4:10 Chat GPT
4:36 Using Chat GPT in transcriptions
5:23 Ancestry's Latest Tools (Change History, Group Circles, etc.)
7:25 A.I. in DNA
10:55 Ancestry's investments - where are they putting money
11:24 Newspaper research advances
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@saraschneider6781 Жыл бұрын

Don't really care much about A.I. I just want the grandparent Sideview to be launched.

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

That would be pretty terrific! Can't wait! (But that is generated by A.I.! 😊)

@saraschneider6781 Жыл бұрын

@@AncestryAimee huh interesting. I thought it would be purely since based.

@sr2291 Жыл бұрын

What is grandparent sideview?

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

@@sr2291 Good question! We are hoping they divide DNA matches into your four grandparents - right now they divide your by your parents. It would make DNA match work much easier.

@charlesdavis2165 Жыл бұрын

@@AncestryAimee That would be incredible!

@familyhistoryenthusiast 2 ай бұрын

Amazing!

@leighbratcher1998 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoy listening to Crista, her enthusiasm is contagious.

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

Completely agree! She was so much fun to interview!

@nanabeccareading 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant and inspiring ❤

@AncestryAimee 8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@barbarabrann6217 11 ай бұрын

With city directories so many names are not recognized by the old OCR software and aren’t transcribed in order to correct them. I wonder if they have plans to rescan the directories using the better software of today to not only increase the number of records in each directory but to make them more accurate. I have found many pages in the directories where only a handful of names have been transcribed on that page.

@AncestryAimee 11 ай бұрын

Oh yes Barbara! That would be wonderful. Hope you’re listening Ancestry.

@johnbrennan9778 7 ай бұрын

Best AI function would be to search thru the people in our tree who were born in Europe (for example) and died in America (for example) and search the passenger lists for what ship they came across on. The search could be shortened by census data in each country to determine accurate search data to look at. Adding another relative is nice, but having ship data or even naturalization or citizenship certificates are awesome!

@AncestryAimee 7 ай бұрын

Love it! Ancestry are you listening??

@bite-sizedshorts9635 8 ай бұрын

@AncestryAimee, I find it hard to believe you're old enough to have 40 years of searching under your belt. I have about 57 years in, but I'm 70 now (started in 1966).

@AncestryAimee 8 ай бұрын

You’re sweet. I started when a teen. But thanks for the complement!! 😁

@CarltonGajadhar Жыл бұрын

When are we going to be able to print our trees and reports. Been asking for too long. 😢

@SheNiteOwl Жыл бұрын

I would love to cover a wall with my Ancestry tree printed out.

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I’m the meantime, can download your tree either but taking the GED file and then putting it in any genealogy program or purchase Family Tree Maker and sync your tree.

@leannwilson2668 Жыл бұрын

I can already do that 😅

@donnanorth7324 10 ай бұрын

What is AI? I read about it with great interest 20 years ago. An example I remember is the mechanic. Lots of people can name all the parts in an engine and point them all out. But few people excel at solving why that engine isn't running correctly. They asked the mechanic what his thought process was to solve a problem. A bit of that would be 'the carburetor was blowing air, rather than sucking it', which means we can exclude a big list of systems, and now focus instead on the timing of the engine, based on the mechanics memory and experience. AI is just code that mimics the way humans solve a problem. That was 20 years ago. Now the AI devours the text it finds on the internet.

@AncestryAimee 10 ай бұрын

Love it!

@marilyncarey7957 Жыл бұрын

I would love to be able to apply handwriting technology or script recognition to individual records in my collection. For example I have a five page prerogative will written in 1818 in Devon England (including a 2 page codicil written after nephew Thomas Ridd pi**ed off Uncle Francis Ridd) which has loads of names and relationships if I could only work them out. It’s written in old English legal script and has taken nearly 3 weeks to transcribe about 95% of it - to have AI do that in seconds, and confirm that what I have already done is correct, would be amazing!!! The will came from Ancestry and so far is the only link to Uncle Francis, who was extremely rich, but had no living issue and whose death was among the missing pages of the bishops transcripts held by Family Search. The will and a possible baptism are the only things I have to go on but I think this will would tie together, or sort out, several families - who all called their kids after their relatives! Thank goodness Uncle Francis had one great grand nephew called Reuben among the Francis, Thomas, Williams, and John’s 🤪

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

Yes! I think we will get there! Try inputting the transcript in ChatGPT like Crista talked about. I wonder what would come of that.

@marilyncarey7957 Жыл бұрын

@@AncestryAimee thanks. I’ll give that a go. Now I just have to get chatgpt. Sigh. More tech to learn. With luck it will stave off dementia for another week or two 🤦🏼‍♀️

@suellenw561 Жыл бұрын

Most (all?) genealogy sites ask that living people's info be kept private but I''ve seen my family members in newspaapers & year books for the world to see. Why? Shouldn't those same privacy standards be applied there?

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

Good question! Public records are out there like newspapers and yearbooks, but tying that person in a family tree is a bit different and quite frankly it’s a liability to the hosting company (like Ancestry). Privacy standards in most instances are set by the state in regards to which records can be out there.

@LogicAndReason2025 10 ай бұрын

One improvement that Ancestry's AI needs is in the DNA ThruLines. I find a lot of errors. Perhaps if Ancestry's hints for children, could be as helpful as hints for parents. The Geneanet Community Trees Index is somewhat helpful, but severely lacking in accuracy and info. Perhaps Ancestry could add a single tree like WikiTree to reference.

@AncestryAimee 10 ай бұрын

Interesting. The Thrulines is because of bad trees. I’m not sure what they can do… but maybe.

@valdaritter8159 7 ай бұрын

I am very irritated with AI. I see a lot of marriage record abstracts... not primary records.... I see marriage records that when I say this is the record I want, it gives me the bride info and her parents, but not the groom or the marriage date, so I have to go back to what is there and write it all down and then manually add it. Kids who are stepchildren are listed as if biological as Census do, but I had the most awful time to try to get that child hooked up with the correct parent. And just the other night I had a City Directory, which was an abstract... could not see if there were other family members listed. Spelling errors that I can read clearly....I used to fix them on Ancestry as I went along but I don't anymore there are too many. There are so many records that are NOT primary anymore and why is that? And the price of Ancestry...and then the add-on of the Newspaper... WOW. I have started looking for other options.

@AncestryAimee 7 ай бұрын

It depends on the collection. There are frequently multiple marriage collections for example. Sometimes it’s indexed info from a FamilySearch record (by agreement). At least when you have the indexed record you know to keep digging. But it is expensive. FamilySearch is a great free option for records but it’s a community tree. You can use Ancestry for free at local libraries and FamilySearch libraries as well.

@LogicAndReason2025 10 ай бұрын

Hopefully, since it reduces labor costs, AI can lower the subscription price?

@AncestryAimee 10 ай бұрын

That would be nice! 😀

@staynavytom2963 26 күн бұрын

How do we get an AI rendition after we have reviewed the census record and added info to our tree? I like the AI writeups.

@AncestryAimee 24 күн бұрын

Perhaps upload the image and ask for the information as Steve laid out in the video? I haven’t tried that.

@staynavytom2963 24 күн бұрын

@@AncestryAimee I didn't have much luck with that. All I got was a statement that said it looked like a census record. Plus I want just one person's information off the census. Ancestry does a good job but once you accept the details of the census, ancestry will not write the AI version.

@davidirwin1549 9 ай бұрын

I'm waiting for the day when AI can start building family trees in the sense that you may have a brick wall on say a GG Grandparents biological family for whom you have no info on and AI would begin to search all your matches and their trees as well as perhaps automatic DNA Painting to determine who and what that biological family might be for your GG Grandparent that you were never able to determine due to a lack of records.

@AncestryAimee 9 ай бұрын

Yeah. My brother-in-law works for FamilySearch and he says the same thing. I would want AI to use records though not trees. I don’t trust trees! 😜

@davidirwin1549 9 ай бұрын

I know what you are saying but when you get back to the early 1800's for a lot of lines trees are all you have.@@AncestryAimee

@valdaritter8159 7 ай бұрын

OK, now you are on DNA.... I have a question... each time my "update" is sent to me, it is different. Why is that? My father's side is half Scotland and half German (research), but that is not what my last update showed. It confuses me.

@AncestryAimee 7 ай бұрын

Great question! Your ethnicity changes as more people test and they improve the results. But it still isn’t always right.

@LogicAndReason2025 10 ай бұрын

Given how complicated is can get, AI may be the only way to untangle the mess. Hopefully DNA combined with AI, can decipher the road-blocks and out of wedlock births. I've got about 30k people on my tree so far, and I have a very hard time keeping track of all the connections.

@AncestryAimee 10 ай бұрын

Wow!

@bite-sizedshorts9635 8 ай бұрын

ChatGPT might be useful someday, but not for me. It won't let me have an account because I don't have a cell phone. You'd think they would verify by regular phone or email like other companies do.

@AncestryAimee 8 ай бұрын

Didn’t know that.

@kosovoiskosovoproductions7001 Жыл бұрын

AI is a really cool, if not kinda concerning, tool for genealogy. I think we'll always need humans to make inferences and connections but I wonder how much a computer could spit out 🤔

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I think we will need humans to sort through things. I'm most excited about indexing capabilities. But I've heard it said a global tree could be built with records at some point. Who knows!