Family, Grandkids & Memories
Stories for grandkids, family history, old letters, and memoirs.
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- Family, Grandkids & Memories
Gather years of family-history stories into one book
Retired genealogist Thomas Jay Kemp posted on X that he asked Grok Bot to collect the family stories he'd written over the years on FamilySearch and his blog, remove duplicates, sort them, and assemble them into one book. He says a job he expected to take a year was done in a day.
- Family, Grandkids & Memories
Search a shoebox of old family letters for answers
Retiree Lawrence D. Weiss writes in Senior Voice that he loaded scans of decades-old family letters into Google's free NotebookLM to learn why his parents left New Jersey for California in 1946. The tool read the handwriting, summarized the letters, and even assembled a family story from them.
- Family, Grandkids & Memories
Speak your memories aloud and turn diaries into a memoir
Mary Ann Schunk, 97, writes that once her hands could no longer manage a pen, she began speaking her memories into ChatGPT, which helps her shape them, along with 65-plus years of diaries, into a memoir. She says its follow-up questions help her recall things she'd forgotten.
- Family, Grandkids & Memories
Transcribe your grandparents' wartime letters
A Hacker News commenter says Claude and ChatGPT did an impressive job transcribing his collection of letters between his grandparents during World War II. He also notes that, at the time he tried, neither could keep pages in order and ChatGPT sometimes skipped a paragraph.
- Family, Grandkids & Memories
Write a chapter-a-day adventure story starring your grandkids
Psychologist Martin Seligman writes in AARP that he had Claude write a serialized adventure starring his two young grandsons, set where the family spends summers, and had ChatGPT illustrate each chapter. Reading a new chapter each day, in person and over Zoom, became a ritual that won back the boys' attention.
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