The Family History AI Show
Hosted by Mark Thompson and Steve Little · Mark Thompson and Steve Little
5.0from 47 ratings
- 43
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 47
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 66K
- YouTube views
About The Family History AI Show
Welcome to "The Family History AI Show," your go-to podcast for the latest news and views on artificial intelligence and family history. Join Steve Little, world-class authority in AI and genealogy, and Mark Thompson, professional genealogist, educator, and technology expert, as they explore the fascinating intersection of family history and AI. In each episode, Mark and Steve unpack the latest news and tools in AI, delivering clear, accessible insights on how you can transform your personal genealogy journey using AI and how AI is reshaping the genealogy community as a whole.
- Publisher
- Mark Thompson and Steve Little
- Category
- education · news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Jun 2024
- Latest episode
- 25 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 43 episodes have a transcript.
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP43: Ancestry's AI Stories, Model News, Scheduled Agents, Goodbye GPTs, AI Slowdown
17 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP42: Summer Model Releases, Desktop Apps, AI Hacking Spree, and Handwriting Transcription
6 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
EP41: MyHeritage Announces Scribe AI, Dave Vance Talks AI at FamilyTreeDNA, Full Text Search at Fold3, Wikipedia's AI Ban
Inside a recent episode
EP43: Ancestry's AI Stories, Model News, Scheduled Agents, Goodbye GPTs, AI Slowdown
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Ancestry is bringing more AI assistants into the work of reading records and sharing family stories. And these are two different jobs here. Document transcription helps turn handwriting into readable text. And AI stories, and that's what we're talking about today, turns information from selected records into narrated stories with historical context. Now, document transcription arrived in beta quite some time ago in April of 2025. And Ancestry announced AI Stories last December. But a recent July record page redesign makes it much easier to compare a document with the person already in your tree. […]
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- Dave Vance
- Diana Elder
- Nicole Dyer
- Jessica Taylor
- Jarrett Ross
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 65,788
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 38 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 9 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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- Quality
- 58
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts The Family History AI Show?
Mark Thompson and Steve Little host the show. Published by Mark Thompson and Steve Little.
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