Randy Seaver didn't follow the instructions in his own prompt for this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1. Today's challenge is "Write a 100-word life sketch of one of your 2X-great-grandparents." [NOTE: Or another of your ancestors!]
2. Show us your 100-word life sketch on your own blog post, in a comment here, or on your Facebook page. Be sure to leave a link to your report in a comment on this post.
[Thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic!]
Okay, here's my contribution.
I chose my great-great-grandfather Victor Gordon (born Isaac Gorodetsky, or at least I think so).
I did not copy notes from anywhere, and I did not ask any AI to write this for me. I actually used my memory for most of the information and double-checked a couple of specific facts. Then I wrote it, all by myself. I then checked the word count by using the tool in Word and edited it down to 100 words (I started at 135).
Avigdor Isaac Gorodetsky was born about 1863, maybe in Kamenets Podolskiy, Podolia gubernia, Russian Empire, son of Gersh Wolf Gorodetsky and possibly Etta Kagan. He married Esther Leah Schneiderman August 17, 1888 (Julian calendar) in Kamenets Podolskiy. They had two children in Kamenets Podolskiy before moving to Kishinev, Bessarabia gubernia, Russian Empire, where they had six more children. After Esther Leah's death in 1908, the family began a chain migration to the United States. Avigdor arrived in the United States February 19, 1914 at Ellis Island. He lived in Brooklyn the rest of his life and died January 26, 1925.
Randy said that AI cheated him out of five words, but I think Randy cheated because he didn't actually write the life sketch.
Um, I gave the AI chatbot the 2000 word genealogical sketch I wrote and asked it to do what it did. I could have done it myself, but it was faster (and probably a better result) than what I would have done to distill 2000 words down to 100 words. Plus, I wanted to see what it would do.
ReplyDeleteGuilty as charged!! What's my sentence?
See, I'm sure your writing would have been a better result, Randy. I will grant you that the AI was faster. Your sentence is that you have to come up with a new idea for SNGF next Saturday!
DeleteLinda S. gave me a list of suggestions, and I'm about halfway through them now. If you have suggestions too, please email me. I'm not that creative any more.
DeleteI can do that! I know there are still a few you haven't used from when I sent you a list some years ago.
DeleteMaybe I should have written mine from memory, too.
ReplyDeleteSo you wouldn't be as tempted to include more information?
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