Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 5 to 11 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: 

*  My Updated 23andMe Ethnicity Results: Ancestry Composition v7.0 (September 2025) by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  An Unusual Carandini Story: The Wild Bushman of North Queensland by Jennifer Jones on Tracking Down the Family.

*  How Full Text Search Broke Through my 30-Year Brick Wall by Jenny MacKay on Jenny's Scrapbook of Family History Stories.

*  This Ship Manifest Clue Saves You Time and Effort by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.

*  Finding Records Lost Online in the AI Universe by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  Take A Genealogy Pause: Lessons from Creativity Research by Rick T. Wilson on MyFamilyPattern.com. 

*  What Can Be Found in WPA Files? by Lisa S. Gorrell on My Trails To the Past.

*  Your Family Tree is Hiding Stories That Need to Be Told by Aryn Youngless on Genealogy By Aryn.

*  How I Use AI by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.

*  A Gentle Introduction to AI for Family Historians by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

*  20 Facts That Might Be Found in Probate Records by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches On the Family Tree.

*  Cousin Finder – MyHeritage’s Innovative New Tool Finds Your Relatives by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

*  Just How Accurate Are Your Updated Ancestry DNA Origins? by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.

*  FRIDAY FINDS ~ Paternal 7th great grandparents - the Everett family of Massachusetts by Diane Gould Hall on Michigan Family Trails.

*  WHOOHOO! Ancestry News!! by Kyla Bayang on Rootsquad Roundup.

*  New in Genealogy Assistant v2.4 by Dan Maloney on Genealogy Assistant.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  The Chiddicks Observer, Edition 30 [6 October 2025] by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Friday’s Family History Finds [10 October 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  This week’s crème de la crème -- October 11, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack [11 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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