EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode, Tami and Elizabeth discuss Elizabeth’s participation in the August WikiTree Challenge with special guest Eowyn Langholf, WikiTree Community Manager. They delve into the unique aspects of WikiTree, emphasizing its community-driven approach.

In the What's Happening segment, Elizabeth shares news about babies born recently using a 3-parent IVF technique. Tami discusses creating AI biographies and videos using tools from Storied and MyHeritage.

During Teatime, Elizabeth spills the tea on the California Digital Newspaper Collection receiving needed funding and then letting all the employees go. Tami spills even more tea on strange genealogy job postings.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00  Intro

00:03:08  What Elizabeth is working on: DAR Applications and the Inheritance Project

00:05:52  What Tami is working on: Visualizing Genealogy Data

00:07:33  Interview with Eowyn Langholf, WikiTree Community Manager

00:20:09  About the WikiTree Challenge

00:22:37  Preparing for the Challenge

00:27:36  The WikiTree Challenge Process

00:32:21  The Growth and Accuracy of WikiTree

00:32:50  Future Aspirations for WikiTree

00:38:44  What’s Happening: Three-Parent IVF

00:40:52  What’s Happening: The Internet Archive and the GPO

00:42:29  What’s Happening: Enhancing Biographies with AI using Storied and MyHeritage

00:52:50  Teatime: California Digital Newspaper Collection

00:55:22  Teatime: Genealogy Jobs

01:00:26  Outro

RESOURCES

• The DAR Inheritance Project - ⁠https://blog.dar.org/2021/09/27/inherit-grandmas-patriots-through-new-program-launch⁠
• WikiTree - ⁠https://www.wikitree.com⁠
• Elizabeth’s WikiTree Challenge - ⁠https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1913531/2025-wikitree-challenge-research-for-elizabeth-oneal-ended⁠
• 8 babies born with experimental 3-parent IVF technique - ⁠https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/3-parent-babies-uk-australia-1.7587286⁠
• The Internet Archive – ⁠https://archive.org⁠
• Federal Depository Library Directory – ⁠https://ask.gpo.gov/s/FDLD⁠
• GPO makes available Supreme Court cases dating back to the 18th century – ⁠https://librarytechnology.org/pr/31522⁠
• Storied U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 – ⁠https://storied.com/historical-record-search/world-war-I-draft-registration-cards⁠
• MyHeritage’s AI Biographer™ – ⁠https://blog.myheritage.com/2023/12/introducing-ai-biographer-create-a-wikipedia-like-biography-for-any-ancestor-using-ai-enriched-with-historical-context⁠
• MyHeritage’s Deep Story (desktop version) – ⁠https://www.myheritage.com/deepstory⁠
• Losing Our History? Funding for the CaliforniaDigital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of theEmployees Responsible for the Project Anyway – ⁠https://cvindependent.com/2025/07/losing-our-history-funding-for-the-california-digital-newspaper-collection-was-restored-but-uc-riverside-laid-off-all-of-the-employees-responsible-for-the-project-anyway⁠
• ConferenceKeeper’s Genealogy Jobs – ⁠https://conferencekeeper.org/genealogy-jobs⁠
• Genealogy Jobs Facebook Group – ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/1497651017151639⁠

KEYWORDS

WikiTree, genealogy, family history, community, AI, research,challenges, collaboration, ancestry, DNA, jobs, genetic genealogy