Randy Seaver has created an Artificial Intelligence Compendium with links to AI tools, custom prompts, webinars, videos, and his own posts at his Genea-Musings blog. Thank you, Randy!

In August 1955, in a barn in the Mississippi Delta, men tortured and murdered a 14-year-old named Emmett Till. Author Wright Thompson, who grew up in nearby Clarksdale, MS, only recently learned about the barn. To uncover the forces that culminated in the murder of a Black child, Thompson reports the history of the new United States, Mississippi and Township 22 North where the barn stands, in essence doing a genealogy of the location and those who populated the forest and later the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi” is a must-read to learn the how and why of a racially motivated murder. It is also a book that shows us how vast research can fill in the color and times of our own family histories.