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:
* Substack for Genealogy: What, Who and Why? by Lex Knowlton on Knext Gen Genealogy.
* Immersive Genealogy with ChatGPT-5: Turning Research into “A Day in the Life” Stories by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
* Full-Text Surprise: Divorce Papers! by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
* Shared Segment Spreadsheet Incarnations by Jim Brewster on Segment-ology.
* A Continuum of AI Use in Family History by Andrew Redfern on Andrew Redfern.
* Funny Things Happen When Researching In Person by Melody Lassalle on Mel's Genealogy Research Journal.
* Crafting Better Research Prompts: A Complete Walk-through by Steve Little on AI Genealogy Insights.
* Using FamilySearch's Full Text Search by Cynthia Boatwright Raleigh on Mission: Genealogy.
* Revisiting My Roots: Ancestry Tree Cleanup by Cari Taplin on Genealogy Pants.
* Using AI to Speed up Family History and Transforming Family History with AI and Digital Archives by Carole McCulloch on Carole McCulloch.
* Untangling a Civil War Pension File with ChatGPT: Lessons from the Hutchinson Case by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
* Protecting Trust in Historical Images from the Coalition for Responsible AI in Genealogy by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.
* When Your Family Doesn’t Care About Family History by Aryn Youngless on Genealogy By Aryn.
* Remembering the Children of the Oil Fields by Angela Walton-Raji on The African-Native American Genealogy Blog
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
* Friday’s Family History Finds [31 October 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* This week’s crème de la crème -- November 8, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
* GenStack [8 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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