Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 13 to 19 April 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: 

*  What Genealogists Can Learn from Tax Records by Jennifer Dondero on The Occasional Genealogist.

*  Testing Handwriting OCR for Genealogy: Transcribing Death Records with AI by Diane He3nriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  Mitochondrial DNA: What is a Haplotype Cluster and How Do I Find and Use Mine? by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

*  The 4-Part AI Prompt Approach Every Family Historian Needs to Know by Lisa Lisson on Are You My Cousin?

*  M - Genealogy Isn’t a Solo Journey - Here’s Why Mentorship Matters by Jon Marie Pearson on The Simple Living Genealogist.

*  What I Learned by Researching Mary Jane Sheridan by Nancy Gilbride Casey on Leaves on the Tree.

*  Transcribing History with AI: A Surprising Experiment by Kirsi Dahl on Stories From the Tree.

*  Narratives in Newsprints: AI Techniques for Extracting Family History by Carole McCullough on Essential Genealogy.

*  Forgotten Ancestors: Remembering Horatio Nelson Hallsey by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree.

*  Nice New Features at GEDmatch by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper's Blog.

*  My Great Grandmother Never Forgot the 1906 Earthquake and Fire by Melody Lassalle on Mel's Genealogy Research Journal.

*  On the Other Side of Lexington Green—April 19, 1775 by David Allen Lambert on Vita Brevis.

*  Using AI to Write A Kent Family Portrait in Court Records by Lori Samuelson on Genealogy At Heart.

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 — April 19, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack [19 April 2025] by Robin Stewart on Genealogy Matters.

*  The Chiddicks Observer 8th Edition [14 April 2025] by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

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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