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Alicia M Prater's avatar

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

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Denyse Allen's avatar

Amazing!

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Deborah Carl's avatar

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.

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Denyse Allen's avatar

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.

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Marta Antunez's avatar

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

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Ang Sandoz's avatar

Thanks for this helpful information. It’s a good place to start to better understand history.

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Carole McCulloch's avatar

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."

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Denyse Allen's avatar

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.

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Anne’s Family History's avatar

A great introduction and an inspiration to give the tool a try - thank you

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Carmel’s Corner's avatar

Thank you, a clear and concise guide.

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Barbara at Projectkin's avatar

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! 💨

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Jane Chapman's avatar

Great guide. Thank you

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Lynda Heines's avatar

Denyse, It's been a year or so since I tried this AI. Thanks. I'll be trying it out now.

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Lori Olson White's avatar

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!

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