Sunday, July 13, 2025

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 6 to 12 July 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: 

*  Who Do I think I am by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Halfway Through 2025's Genealogical Journey of Sharing by Marian B. Wood on Climbing Your Family Tree.

*  The new clustering tool at Ancestry by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper's Blog.

*  FamilySearch's Full-Text Search Finds Robert Nelson in Others' Estate Files by Nancy Messier on My Ancestors and Me.

*  From Sunrise to Sunset: A Day in the Life of a Female Ancestor by Brenda Leyndyke on Journey To the Past.

 Land Records for the Original Landowners of Pennsylvania by Deborah Carol on Mission: Genealogy.

*  How to Use AI to Analyze Family Photos by  DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.

*  From Wales to Australia: Leaving Wales in 1841 by Jennifer Jones on Tracking Down the Family.

*  Our Ancestors Had Social Lives! by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches On the Family Tree.

*  Where to Search for German Relatives by Jeannette Holland Austin on Genealogy Tips and Beyond.

*  What are DNA Matches By Cluster on Ancestry by Mercedes Brons on Who Are You Made Of?

*  Finding the Will... and the Means by Jeff Record on The Last Aha...

*  Why Revisiting Sources is a Smart Move in Genealogy Research by N.P. Maling on Sea Genes Family History & Genealogy Research.

*  How to Use Ancestry’s New Match Clusters and What They Mean by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

*  A Farmer’s Courtship and Preserve Your Authentic Voice in the Age of AI by Carole McCulloch on NextGen Genealogy.

*  Where Social Media Started and Where It’s Going in Genealogy by Jon Marie Pearson on The Simple Living Genealogist.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday’s Family History Finds [11 July 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  This week’s crème de la crème — July 12, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack [12 July 2025] by Robin Stewart on Genealogy Matters.

*  The Chiddicks Observer Edition 20 [7 July 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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2 comments:

Linda Stufflebean said...

Thank you for this week's mention. There's some excellent reading for everyone!

Marian B. Wood said...

Many thanks for including my post in your list this week!