Recently I tried using ChatGPT to transcribe the German birth record for my great grandmother. I don’t know the German language so figuring out what these records say has always been a challenge for me. A few years back I tried translating it myself and thought I had managed to extract the data I needed which was confirmation of the names of her parents and her birth date and place. But ChatGPT’s transcription, while not perfect, made me realize I might have missed something important about this record I didn’t realize at the time of my initial translation. Below is…