Using Artificial Intelligence Tools for Land Records Analysis (Technology)

Artificial Intelligence tools can be used to quickly extract and organize information from individual land records or multiple records simultaneously, including all the parties involved and their roles, metes and bounds, public land descriptions, geographic features, and neighbors.

This introductory lecture will start with an overview of land records and their use in genealogy.  This will be followed by an introduction to Artificial Intelligence tools, with examples of how they can be used in genealogical research such as text and image analysis.

Putting it all together, we will cover several AI use cases including deed analysis and summary, tracing chain of title, platting metes and bounds, identifying neighbors, and mapping neighborhoods.  The final section will discuss using AI to read handwriting, and using websites that make use of AI to index handwritten documents and maps in their collections.

A shorter version of this lecture was presented at the 2024 National Genealogical Society Virtual Conference.  It was viewed by over 400 people, and was given most “likes” of all the lectures.   With GenWebinars you can see the full version with an extended Q&A session.

**** Please note: Approximately 50% of this lecture overlaps with “Using Artificial Intelligence Tools in Genealogy” which was presented earlier this summer.