Sunday, October 5, 2025

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 28 September to 4 October 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: 

*  Timeline Storytelling for Genealogy: Three Ways ChatGPT-5 Structures an Ancestor’s Life by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  When Census Records Fail: 5 Community Records That Solve Genealogy Mysteries by Lisa Lisson on Lisa Lisson.

All Boxed In by Jeff Record on The Last Aha.

*  Different Ways We Write Names When Recording Genealogy by Deborah Carl on Mission: Genealogy.

*  How do we know what is real in Genealogy? by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  The AI Genealogy Revolution: Building an AI Genealogy Workflow and Transforming Genealogy: Crafting Authentic Ancestral Narratives by Carole McCulloch on Coach Carole Online.

 Using AI to Persuade Us by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.

*  Revisiting My Roots: Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit by Cari Taplin on Genealogy Pants.

*  Why most genealogy advice wastes your time and what to do instead by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

*  What we Find When We're Looking for Something Else by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry.

*  What Good is an Obituary, Anyway? by Anne Wendel on Anne's Substack.

*  Missing Branches on Ancestry (With Fix) by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.

*  John Adams & the American Revolution: The Other Side of the Story by Linda Stufflebean on Linda Stufflebean.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  The Chiddicks Observer, Edition 29 [29 September 2025] by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Friday’s Family History Finds [3 October 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  This week’s crème de la crème -- October 4, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack [4 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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