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.
Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:
* My 2025 AncestryDNA Origins Update: The Biggest Ethnicity Update Yet and MyHeritage Moves to Whole Genome Sequencing – What It Means for Genealogists by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
* Genealogy Tips: Your Ancestors’ Death Records by Katie Rebecca Merkley on GenealogyBank Blog.
* Looking for Ancestors in All the Wrong Places by Katherine Brodt on Mission: Genealogy.
* From Discovery to Story: Giving Archives a Second Life Online by Jon Marie Pearson on Genealogy & The Social Sphere.
* Daughters of Revolution, or Cheez-Whiz Redundancies and Gee-whiz Genealogy by Jeff Record on The Last Aha.
* Ancestry’s Updated Ancestral Origins by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper's Blog.
* Beyond the Basics: How an AI Workflow Can Revolutionise Genealogy Projects by Carole McCulloch on Coach Carole Online.
* TECHNOLOGY TUESDAY ~ Using AI to transcribe old probate records by Diane Gould Hall on Michigan Family Trails.
* 5 Unexpected Lessons From Walking My Ancestor’s Streets (That Changed How I See Heritage Travel) by Lisa Lisson on Lisa Lisson.
* Put This Genealogy Assistant to Work for You by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.
* Gemini AI; and Comparing AI Prompts; and Using AI to Create a Research Plan by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
* MyHeritage DNA Tests are ALL going to be WGS by Louis Kessler on Behold Blog.
* MyHeritage Introduces a Low-Pass Whole Genome Autosomal DNA Test & Why It Matters by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.
* AI gamification of family history research for BIFHSGO by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
* Why transcription is the heart of family history research and writing by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.
* The Lies We Inherit: Cognitive Bias in Genealogy by Dead Relative Guy on No Parents Listed.
* Can ChatGPT Analyze Your Raw Data Zip file? Yes it can! by Annette Kapple on AK's Genealogy Research.
* The Hidden Discoveries of Writing Your Research by Lori Samuelson on GenealogyAtHeart.com.
* Walk The Clusters Back with AncestryDNA by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology.
* Three difficult issues with the FamilySearch.org Full-text Search by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
* Friday’s Family History Finds [17 October 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* This week’s crème de la crème -- October 18, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
* GenStack [18 October 2025] by Robin Stewart on Genealogy Matters.
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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