Diane Henriks founder of Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family, is a passionate and seasoned Los Angeles County-based professional genealogist. Photo courtesy of Solano County Genealogical Society

SOLANO COUNTY, CA (MPG) - The Solano County Genealogical Society will have a virtual Speaker Series presentation on March 1.  This free event begins at 11 a.m. and the public is welcome to attend.  Send an email to scgs@scgsca.org no later than 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 and request an invite.  This presentation will not be recorded.

Our presenter, Diane Henriks’ talk is titled; Unraveling Family History with AI: Leveraging AI to Trace an Ancestor’s Journey using Chat GPT (free version).

Diane will explore how AI technology, exemplified by ChatGPT, can revolutionize your family history, by embarking on a journey through an ancestor’s life, leveraging AI to uncover his story and shed light on the broader implications for genealogical research. Come see how AI can work for you!

Diane Henriks, also known as the Descendant Detective and founder of Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family, is a passionate and seasoned Los Angeles County-based professional genealogist, investigator, speaker, and author who specializes in descendancy and brick wall research, along with living people search and unknown parentage. Diane has worked closely with private investigators to find living people while also assisting in background investigations, in both civil and criminal cases. She is a proud member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Genealogical Speakers Guild, the Southern California Genealogical Society, the Utah Genealogical Association, and various genealogical interest groups. What started out as a small hobby well over a decade ago, when a hand-drawn family tree chart was given to her by her father, has since become a great obsession, and she now helps others discover and preserve who they are and where they came from.