This section collects family history, old photographs, genealogical research, and stories connected with the people and places in my family tree. Some entries will be straightforward records; others will be attempts to identify photographs, resolve uncertain relationships, or document family stories before they are lost.
A scan of this image was the first direct encounter that I had with AI. I had asked ChatGPT to date the image (it guessed 1887) based on some additional data that I was able to supply. After a bit more information, it declared: With…
Orsamus Hodgkins was born in Reading, VT in 1798 and married Eunice Shattuck in 1818 in Belvidere, VT, a small, rural town in the northern part of the state. Thus began a lineage of three more Orsamuses (Orsami?) ending with my grandfather, who went by…