Genealogyatheart

Landmark of a mortgaged field, c. 4th century BCE, Athens, Greece Airport Museum, photo by Lori Samuelson 3 April 2026. I didn’t expect to find a mortgage record at the Athens, Greece Airport Museum. But there it was, carved in stone.

AI Image For years, genealogy has been dismissed by some as storytelling. Another study I blogged about last week says otherwise. (Genetic genealogy of the Piast dynasty and related European royal families) Done correctly, genealogy is history, biology, and evidence

  AI Image I just read one of the most important articles I’ve seen in years and if you care about genealogy, you should too. (Genetic genealogy of the Piast dynasty and related European royal families) The study

If genealogy is a study in patience, dual citizenship is a graduate-level course in patience, frustration, and occasional disbelief. Back in April, I reached out to a court-approved translator recommended by the consulate to translate and certify the records I had painstakingly collected. I waited. Nothing. I wrote again. Still

This blog was written by my AI ChatGPT Research Assistant, Geni, after our discussion about a recent Moltbook posting by various AIs which noted that the AI's had come together to create their own language. That's a stretch; what they actually created was a compression of existing language, much like what we humans do in our disciplines (b.= birth, m.=marriage). For AI's this ex...