Artificial Intelligence has brought powerful new tools to family history research. AI can efficiently summarize documents, reliably extract information from large texts, and accelerate your research. These tools offer fascinating possibilities for enhancing and simplifying your family history.

Intended for those new to AI, this session explores promising applications of AI in family history. It also highlights areas where caution is critical and traditional research methods remain essential.

Mark will join us virtually for an accessible overview of AI's potential and discover what these emerging capabilities could mean for your family history research.

1 hour. For ages 18+ years. Registration is recommended. This will be a hybrid program with in-person and online attendance. 

Mark Thompson is a professional genealogist who specializes in artificial intelligence, digitizing and archiving family memorabilia, and genetic genealogy.  

Mark leverages his combined expertise in genealogy and technology to guide genealogists through the rapidly changing field of artificial intelligence, showing them how it can help them with their research.  

Mark is the President of the Victoria Genealogical Society (VGS) in Victoria, BC and is the chair of their DNA Special Interest Group. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Mark has decades of teaching and public speaking experience in a variety of genealogy-related topics.

Please feel free to reach out to MarkThompson@MakingFamilyHistory.com if you have any questions.