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:
* AI-Augmented Ancestral Storytelling by Carole McCulloch on NextGen Genealogy.
* In Their Own Words: Creating Fictionalized Family Letters with ChatGPT-5 by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
* Preserving Our Posts by Deborah Carl on Mission: Genealogy.
* Comments on evolving and devolving genealogical terminology and 5 Surprising Ways Google’s Gemini 3 Will Change How We Research Family History by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.
* The new ChatGPT is here - what you need to know and Why your old AI prompts aren’t working anymore (and how to fix them) by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.
* You Will Hear of Launches and Rumors of Launches; Fun Prompt Friday: From Screenshot to [EXPLETIVE DELETED] to Heirloom—The Nano Banana 2 Stress Test; and This is What a Step Change Looks Like by Steve Little on AI Genealogy Insights.
* Get In-Depth Answers to Your Genealogy Questions by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.
* Drilling Deeper into Origins by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry.
* The Past Inside of You by Nate Douglas on No Parents Listed.
* Reconstructing the Lost 1890 Census: Recent Records and AI Tools (2025 Updates) by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.
* AI Never Met Your Ancestor: Locating Non-Enhanced Images on Ancestry by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.
* Browsing Instead of Searching at Fold3 by Lisa S. Gorrell on My Trails Into the Past.
* The Hop-Picker Murders by Nathan Dylan Goodwin: Book Review by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches On the Family Tree.
* Gaolhouse Chronicles: The Body in the Box | Part III by Lex Knowlton on Knext Gen Genealogy.
* Stop Digging Through Dusty Archives: 10 Digital Tools That Will Transform Your Family History Research in 2025 by Brin Nash on How We Got Here Genealogy.
* How to Organize a Multi-Year Research Conundrum by Pat Richley-Erickson on DearMYRTLE's Village Square.
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
* The Chiddicks Observer Edition 32 [17 November 2025] by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.
* Friday’s Family History Finds [21 November 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* This week’s crème de la crème -- November 22, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
* GenStack [22 November 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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