​Part of the Build Your Genealogy Assistant with Claude series

​Out of the box, Claude is a generalist. Skills and integrations make it a specialist — your specialist, tuned to your research.

​Skills are instruction sets that teach Claude how to handle specific tasks well: creating properly formatted Word documents, building PDFs, producing spreadsheets. Integrations connect Claude to the tools you already use — your Google Drive, the web, your Notion workspace. Together, they transform Claude from a conversation partner into something that fits inside your actual research workflow.

​In this session, you'll connect Claude to your Google Drive, use web search to find historical context, and create a formatted document you could hand to a family member or submit to a genealogy society.

​What you'll walk away with:

​Claude connected to at least one external tool, plus a formatted Word document or PDF created from your own research.

​What you'll need for this session:

• ​A Claude Pro subscription ($20/month at claude.ai)

• ​A computer (not a phone)

• ​Your own genealogy research files — we work with your real data, not hypotheticals

​What we'll cover:

• ​What skills are and how Claude uses them (plain English, no jargon)

• ​The built-in skills that matter for genealogy: Word docs, PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations

• ​Integrations explained: how Claude connects to Google Drive, web search, and other services

• ​Enabling your first integration and watching Claude pull from your own files

• ​Using web search for historical context — and verifying what comes back

• ​Creating a polished document you can share, print, or submit

​Your turn moments:

• ​Enable the Google Drive connector and pull a document into Claude

• ​Use web search to find historical context for one ancestor's time and place

• ​Create a professionally formatted Word doc or PDF about one ancestor

​This session also includes a bonus session

​​Office Hours: Build Your Genealogy Assistant

​Thursday, March 19th · 1:00 PM Eastern · 60 Minutes

​​For registered participants only.

​​Bring what you built in this session. Show us what worked, what didn't, and what you want to try next. This isn't a lecture — it's collaborative troubleshooting and experimentation.

​About Denyse:

​I help family historians finish their research and write chronicles their families will actually read. I teach AI as a research partner — not a replacement — and my students have a 90% completion rate in the Chronicle Writing Sprint. I'll show you exactly how I use AI in my own research.

​Can't attend live? Register anyway — you'll receive the recording after the event.