Sunday, July 26, 2020

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 19 to 25 July 2020

Dozens of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.


Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:


 Impact of Ancestry Removing Your DNA Matches in 2020 by Margaret O'Brien on Data Mining DNA.

Major Privacy Breach at GEDmatch by Debbie Kennett on Cruwys News.

*  Plea to Ancestry – Rethink Match Purge Due to Deleterious Effect on African American Genealogists by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplianed - Genetic Genealogy.

5 Free Tools to Manage Genealogy Research by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

How to Use the Power of Shared DNA Matches by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree.

Identifying Unknown African-American Lineages Using DNA by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

Mayflower Society - Episode 6 - I'm In! by Diane Gould Hall on Michigan Family Trails.

*  Ancestry’s Changes Affect Those with Enslaved Ancestors: A Guest Post by Franklin Carter Smith on Dana Leeds.

The Archive Lady:  Preserving Grandpa's Wallet by Melissa Barker on Genealogy Bargains.

Calling For Collaboration by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry.

5 Ways to Assess Online Trees and Other Publications by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy.

*   Information available to help in African American Genealogy Research prior to 1870 by Shelley Murphy on Family Tree Girl.

The Unknown Sister by Jude on Genealogy Jude.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

Friday's Family History Finds  by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

 Friday Fossicking, 24th July 2020 by Crissouli on That Moment in Time.

This Week's Creme de la Creme -- July 25, 2020  by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte,

*  Saturday Serendipity (July 25, 2020) by John D. Tew on Filiopietism Prism.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and  read their articles, and add the blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I currently am reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.


Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.


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4 comments:

Jacqi Stevens said...

Oh, what a week it has been--thankfully, ably captured by your picks of the week, Randy. Thanks for including one of my posts in your roundup.

Linda Stufflebean said...

Thank you, Randy, for including my post about tech tools to manage research on your list this week. :)

Diane Gould Hall said...

Thanks so much for the mention Randy. Sure a happy moment for me. You’re next! :)

GenealogyJude said...

Thanks for including my blog "The Unknown Sister". I hope it will prompt others to search for missing relatives so they can be acknowledged and included in family trees.