Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 9 to 15 February 2025

Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write hundreds 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 most 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: 

*  MyHeritage Ethnicity Estimate v2.5: A Game-Changer in DNA Ethnicity Estimates by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  Uncovering the Lives of the Cedar Grove 143: Untold Stories for Black History Month by Juliana Szucs on Upfront With NGS.

*  Why Did Our Ancestors Have Strange Names? by Mercedes Brons on Who Are You Made Of?

*  From Memory to Memoir – My Personal Experience with MyStories by MyHeritage by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.

*  Telling my story with MyStories by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  WATO vs WATO plus by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog.

*  Where personal DNA testing is today by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper's Blog.

*  The Power of Best Practices in Genealogy Communication by Donna Cox Baker on GenoHistory.com.

*  The Joy of Tithe Records: Finding an Ancestor’s Home & More by Judith Batchelor on Family Wise.

*  Genealogy, DNA and Me  by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches On the Family Tree.

* AI-Powered Outlining: The Fastest Way for Family Historians to Start Writing by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

*  FamilyTreeDNA’s New Matrix Shows How Your Matches Are Related to Each Other by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

*  Why Your Favorite Genealogy Content Is Disappearing (And How to Fix It) by Jon Marie Pearson on The Simple Living Genealogist.

*  Tech We Grew Up With (That My Grandkids Will Never Understand) by Deborah Holman on Who We Are ... And how We Got This Way.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

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

*  This week’s crème de la crème — February 15, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack (February 15, 2015) by Robin Stewart on GenStack.

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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