Finds with the new FamilySearch Labs AI tool

 

FamilySearch. Santa Monica Deeds 1907. Image 1549.

I am in the process of catching up on all the new developments from last week's Rootstech 2024 Conference. One of the big developments is the launch of FamilySearch Labs' beta AI search tool. As noted by Judy Russell on the Legal Genealogist blog, this is still a work-in-progress and limited to a small number of databases at the moment, but it has huge potential.

I ran a simple search for "Campuzano" and "Sonora", and the system quickly located an unknown-to-me deed involving Frank A. and Joaquina Campuzano in the Santa Monica deeds from 2 March 1907. I previously looked at them back in September and October 2018. The entry above shows the couple entered a deed of trust on a $1500 loan in 1907 for a 10.5 year period. I found another deed for two years later in January 1909, where the couple conveyed the property to Charles Talbert. The property was located in "Childs Heights", Los Angeles. According to Google Maps, this may be the present day Childs Court in Silver Lake.

Frank and Joaquina entered an earlier deed on 12 October 1903 for $1475.

Adjusting the search for "Campuzano" to Los Angeles yielded an even earlier deed involving Rosario Hinojosa de Campuzano from 28 July 1890.

On 15 May 1900, prior to the divorce of Frank and Rosario, they agreed to sell property that had been deeded to Frank in 1890. Both deeds were located by the AI-powered search. I never would have found these otherwise.

Changing the spelling to "Campusano", I located another deed from 7 July 1886 involving Rosario. It also located an 1887 deed involving Manuela Dominguez de Campusano, second wife of Frank's father Jose Maria Campusano. And another below from 1896:

FamilySearch. Los Angeles Deeds, 1896.

Mexican records from Sonora do not appear to be in the search tool yet, but hopefully will be added soon.