Sunday, November 30, 2025

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 23 to 29 November 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: 

*  Exploring Google NotebookLM’s New Report Options for Genealogy by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  208 Questions to Ask Family & Friends by Aryn Youngless on Genealogy By Aryn.

 From Facts to Family Sagas;  The 5 Surprising Truths About Using AI for Genealogy by Carole McCulloch on Coach Carole Online.

*  Mitotree Sprouts 12,773 NEW Branches and Includes Ancient DNA by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

*  Evaluating the Results of the FamilySearch AI Research Assistant and Handwriting Recognition, Ancestry.com, and FamilySearch.org, and Gemini 3 and Can Google Gemini 3 find Historical Newspaper Articles? by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  The Obstinate Case of Earl Douglas, Examined with Great Fatigue by Nate Douglas on No Parents Listed.

*  A Day in the Life Part 2 by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.

*  AI for Family History: Documenting My Grandfather with NotebookLM by Ellen Thompson-Jennings on Hound On the Hunt.

*  Collections, Archives and Altruistic Hoarding by Jane Hutcheon on Jane Hutcheon's Show and Tell.

*  My first experiments with AncestryDNA Custom Clusters by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog.

*  Part 1: The Dream, the Deadline, and the Diocesan Detour by Lori Samuelson on GenealogyAtHeart.com.

*  How to Access Ancestry’s 1,391 Free Collections by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.

*  Stop using British Colonial America as a country name by Sean Lamb on Finding the Flock.

*  Where My Family History Finally Found Its Home by Carole McCulloch on Essential Genealogy.

*  The Night AI Stopped Lying About Your Ancestors: Inside the Lawrence-Little Breakthrough by Steve Little on AI Genealogy Insights.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  The Chiddicks Observer Edition 33 [24 November 2025] by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Friday’s Family History Finds [28 November 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  This week’s crème de la crème -- November 29, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack [29 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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