Online meeting via Zoom, register here.

Learn to break through brick walls, transcribe difficult handwriting, and find missing ancestors using AI. This class covers the FamilySearch AI Assistant and Full Text Search, effective prompting for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot, and AI-powered transcription of historical documents — including cursive and foreign-language records. Special emphasis on verification workflows to keep your research accurate and hallucination-free.

Colette Hokanson loves people—both the living and the dead. She holds a B.S. from Brigham Young University and is accredited in Swedish research through the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen).

She currently serves on both the United States & Canada team and the Nordic team at the FamilySearch Library. With over 20 years of experience in family history, Colette has traveled extensively with her husband in search of ancestral connections. She's not afraid to climb a wall, knock on a stranger’s door, or drive to the top of a Norwegian mountain in pursuit of new genealogical discoveries.

Colette is passionate about learning, good chocolate, her family, and meaningful
connections—past and present.

A recording of the presentation will be available in the Members Area on www.scchgs.org however no handout is available for this session.