I had on my to-do list to look up the laws regarding fornication and illegitimate children in New Hampshire around 1790. Perplexity gave a good summary and pointed out that the laws had changed from punishing the parents for fornication/adultery to requiring the father (or mother) to provide for the child financially. And I like that it has links to the sources.
That’s amazing! Before AI I was trying to track the changes in those laws here in PA going through the law books in a law library. I was really overwhelmed.
I just had a chance to finally try this out and I'm hooked. It found more about the administrative and logistic issues around pauper burials in Chelsea, Vermont in the 1800s in 15 minutes than I did in a whole weekend of research! lol
Brilliant introduction to one of my favourite AI assistants for genealogy, Perplexity. I now use Ms Perplexity for developing Locality Guides and often pop into for a quick conversation about something specific from my recent research. eg
Today's prompt: "
Give me an 1830s visual glimpse of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, where my great grandmother Mary Anne Evans was born."
What a fun prompt! I actually don’t use it for building locality guides because I found it only 50% right. These tools can’t seem to distinguish that each US state is governed differently.
Thank you, a clear and concise guide.
Terrific tips, Denyse! Thank you so much for this. I didn't know about their Chrome plugin. Now I'm taking that out for a drive, too. 😎 Woohoo! 💨
I had on my to-do list to look up the laws regarding fornication and illegitimate children in New Hampshire around 1790. Perplexity gave a good summary and pointed out that the laws had changed from punishing the parents for fornication/adultery to requiring the father (or mother) to provide for the child financially. And I like that it has links to the sources.
That’s amazing! Before AI I was trying to track the changes in those laws here in PA going through the law books in a law library. I was really overwhelmed.
I just had a chance to finally try this out and I'm hooked. It found more about the administrative and logistic issues around pauper burials in Chelsea, Vermont in the 1800s in 15 minutes than I did in a whole weekend of research! lol
Amazing!
Thanks for this helpful information. It’s a good place to start to better understand history.
Brilliant introduction to one of my favourite AI assistants for genealogy, Perplexity. I now use Ms Perplexity for developing Locality Guides and often pop into for a quick conversation about something specific from my recent research. eg
Today's prompt: "
Give me an 1830s visual glimpse of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, where my great grandmother Mary Anne Evans was born."
What a fun prompt! I actually don’t use it for building locality guides because I found it only 50% right. These tools can’t seem to distinguish that each US state is governed differently.
A great introduction and an inspiration to give the tool a try - thank you
Great guide. Thank you
Denyse, It's been a year or so since I tried this AI. Thanks. I'll be trying it out now.
Thanks, @Denyse, for this into guide - I’m still slowly getting my toes wet in AI and this one looks like it might be a winner for what I love doing!
Great points! I’m sharing my latest post on how AI is replacing search, I hope you find it interesting https://open.substack.com/pub/surfthewave/p/ai-is-replacing-search?r=2d1mc&utm_medium=ios