Chat GPT. AI is amazing and scary. I went to NYC in March to attend a genealogy workshop. I was able to find the original, one hundred and eleven years old, documents from a court case involving a member of my biological family. I had to go over to Brooklyn to a warehouse to be able to see, hold and photograph them. I put the photo of the front of the folded documents on Chat GPT and asked the order which they should be placed by occurrence, what it could tell me about the documents, and what the people involved would have gone through. It told everything right down to the occupation of the Grand Jury Foreman. It told me of the judge's history on the bench and his involvement in a new movement to introduce probation rather than every person found guilty sent to prison. It told me about The Tombs and what it would have been like to be there until bailed out. Also which buildings each of the hearings or the trial would have been held in at that time and provided photos. There's more, I've forgotten but it just blew my mind. Last night I was asking Chat about alligator snapping turtles and their protected status and how one could have one removed from a pond at a garden near Augusta, Georgia. It immediately guessed the name of the garden (it's just being revived after 30 years and is 25 minutes from Augusta.) Then it went on to tell me a detailed procedure, including phone numbers to call in order to get permission from the state/region office for the removal, along with a list of local certified wildlife companies that once permitted could remove it. It gave me list of how to keep track of the turtle until they got there, and more about alligator snapping turtles. AI is amazing and saves a lot of time!
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