PROMPT OF THE DAY

This prompt can be especially useful if you have not been able to find any Revolutionary War service for the ancestors you have in your database (a negative research log can be helpful here). You may even suspect they were Loyalists rather than a Patriots. You will provide a location and any information you have about them.

Use this prompt when you want to add context to the data you have about a Revolutionary War era ancestor you you are researching. Use the results for follow up research and validate the response. NOTE: This prompt can be modified to understand any era of military history. You will provide relevant locations and dates

Use this prompt when you find an online tree containing an person of the same name as your known patriot and you want to evaluate whether or not your ancestor is the same as the one in the tree.  You will provide information from the online tree.  

  Use this when you have a pension file (or long abstract) with one or more depositions —by the veteran, widow, children, neighbors, or comrades—and you want to turn it into structured, research ‑ ready evidence without smoothing away conflicts.  You’ll provide: A transcription (or very accurate extract) of the pension file or selected deposition(s),   Any file identifiers (pension number, state, service) you know.

Use this prompt when you have Revolution War era information about two (2) or more ancestors who may or may not be the same person.  You will provide information that is listed in the prompt.

Use this prompt if your research question is: "Did John Doe serve during the Revolutionary War era?" You will provide multiple records that relate to that ancestor during the Revolutionary War era. 

Use this prompt when you want to work on an application to a lineage society based on your Revolutionary War patriot.  You will provide records you have collection on your patriot.

  Use this when you’re working on one individual or family connected to the Revolutionary War (Patriot soldier, Loyalist, militia man, seaman, or civilian affected by the war), and you have multiple bits of evidence (service notes, pension abstracts, local records, narratives). You’ll provide: T ranscriptions or extracts from relevant records (service/pension/militia/tax/church/local), A short note on your current hypothesis about their role, if you want.

 Here are copy‑paste‑ready prompt examples for 22 genealogy AI use cases. You can adapt these to whatever tool you’re using (Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.). Or you can modify them to "fit" your particular research scenario.

  Use when transcribing U.S. land records containing aliquot legal descriptions. This is especially useful when aliquot description repeat the same cardinal direction and that repetition is CORRECT.

  Here are ready-to-use, probate ‑ specific prompts for Gemini , organized by task. You can copy ‑ paste and adapt them for different estates, localities, or record sets.

  Scenario: A concrete, historically plausible research situation with record type, time period, location, and research goal. Research task: The exact action the genealogist should perform. Exact prompt to use: A copy-ready AI prompt tailored to the scenario, including instructions to preserve uncertainty and avoid inventing facts. Expected output structure: A compact outline or table schema the AI should return. Verification warning: A clear caution explaining how to verify every extracted claim against the primary record image, citation, or original source before adding it to genealogy conclusions. Quick morning note: Keep the full briefing short, practical, and easy to scan.