Reflections on AI: Revising my opinions about doing genealogical research with AI

Beginning in December 2025, I became aware of the features of NotebookLM with my Gemini Pro account. Since then, I have worked on some extensive research projects using both Gemini 3 and NotebookLM. My main goal over the past 3+ years in consistently working with AI was to determine if a chatbot could do serious genealogical research. See Real Genealogical Research from FamilySearch Full-Text Search, Google Gemini and NotebookLM. 

Coupled with the FamilySearch.org Full-text search, NotebookLM and Gemini 3, it is now clear that this combination can assist in doing fully source-based genealogy as long as the genealogist using these tools has the knowledge and experience to evaluate the documents independent of any preliminary conclusions developed by the AI tools. However, in situations such as researching a remote ancestor with previously unavailable historical records, the ability of the tools to find and organize new information is invaluable. 

I would strongly suggest that such difficult research efforts will be aided my learning and using these specific tools.