Welcome to your AI Bootcamp hub 

We really hope you enjoy the course with Carole McCulloch and we thank you all for studying with Family Tree.

Here are a few useful details: 

A quick message - re Week 3

Hello Everyone – we hope you’re enjoying working on your homework and projects.

On Thurs 22nd 9am GMT will be the third webinar. You should already have your link from Zoom. The webinar link from week 1 works for all 4 weeks of the course.

The Week 3 downloads, which accompany the third webinar are now ready for you. In preparation, please find them here.

This Week 3 folder also includes two short tech tips video tutorials created by Carole.

• 'How to use NotebookLM for infographics and reports'
• & 'How to use Perplexity for historical locality guides'.

Plus you may also like to read Carole's latest blog post too: How AI Tools help me turn Dry Archives into Living History - Enjoy!

Carole has also kindly created further tech tips tutorial videos, in response to some requests for help in these areas. See details here:

• PromptCowboy.ai tutorial - find it in the Week 1 downloads folder.

• Creating Tab Groups in your Browser tutorial - find it in the Week 0 downloads folder.

• Copying and pasting from your AI model (eg Gemini, ChatGPT etc) and pasting into a Word document - find it in the Week 0 downloads folder.

If you have any problems obtaining any of the above – please email [email protected] or [email protected] and we’ll be very happy to help you.

Week 0 - pre-course downloads & preparation

We hope you enjoy working through the course preparation materials. These are an important first step, before launching into the Week 1 material.

Week 0 materials include:

• Handout Week 0;
• Roadmap Week 0;
• Objectives of the AI Bootcamp;
• & Preparation & orientation slides.

Please download them (using the password provided to you) here.

(If you need the password resupplying, please email [email protected])

Week 1 - downloads

The Week 1 downloads accompany the webinar that took place live on Thursday 8th January 9am GMT. You can find the Week 1 downloads (including the Zoom chat) and the recording of the Week 1 webinar below. 

Please find your Week 1 downloads (including the Zoom chat) here. 

Bonus: 10 minute Prompt Cowboy tutorial - Coach Carole has created a short tutorial on how to get started using PromptCowboy.ai. We have placed it in the Week 1 download folder (see above).

Blog: read more about prompts - Coach Carole has written a blog that includes information about prompts. You may read it here.

Week 1 - video
 

 

Week 2 - downloads

The Week 2 downloads accompany the webinar that took place on Thursday 15th January 9am GMT. 

Please find your Week 2 downloads (including the Zoom chat) here. 

Week 2 - video

 

Week 3 - downloads

The Week 3 downloads, which accompany the webinar that will take place on Thursday 22nd January 9am GMT, are now ready for you. In preparation, please find them here.

This material also includes two short video tutorials: 'How to use NotebookLM for infographics and reports' and 'How to use Perplexity for historical locality guides'.

 

Carole McCulloch's YouTube channel can be found here.

The AI Bootcamp Facebook group

We'd love you to join our dedicated Facebook group, solely for participants on the AI Bootcamp course. It'll provide a useful and enjoyable way to discuss course progress and queries between workshop sessions.

The Facebook group can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aibootcamp2026

It will be active from 2 January to 5 March 2026, to give time during, and for one month after the course, to discuss all things AI and family history - particularly relating to the course work too.

Note: All important course material will be provided via this hub page, so joining the Facebook group is entirely optional (you may like to consider joining Facebook with an ancestor's name, if you wish to preserve your privacy).

Course dates & times

• The masterclass dates and times: Thursdays 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th January 2026, 9am-10am GMT. You should have received your invitations from Zoom to join the live webinars.
• The recordings: All sessions will be recorded and the recordings will be made available for you to view as many times as you wish for 1 month after the course completion (ie until 5 March 2026).
• The Facebook group will be live until 5 March 2026, after which it will be archive access.

If you have any queries, please email [email protected]