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:
* Ancestry Expands Its AI Record Explore Feature: Introducing Listen and Explore (Beta) by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
* They Ad by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.ded Their Own Memories to Family History Booklet! by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
* Me and ChatGPT, a story by Linda Yip on Past Presence.
* Reflections at Christmas Time by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
* Is Transkribus the Best AI for Handwritten Genealogy Documents? by Deborah Carl on Mission: Genealogy.
* Vibe Genealogy: Here Comes the Sun and Fun Prompt Friday: Walking Down Washington Street, 1900, San Francisco by Steve Little on AI Genealogy Insights.
* An AI Genealogical Source Reliability Scale and Conflict Audit Framework and Enhance your responses from Google Gemini 3 with expanded prompts by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.
* Finding Unexpected Genealogical Sources in JSTOR and Finding Your Ancestors in the Official Federal Land Records Site (BLM GLO Records) and Finding Hidden Genealogical Sources Using Google Scholar by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
* How I Found My 8th Great Grandparents by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.
* Using DNA to Uncover a Family Secret by Aidan Walsh on Vita Brevis.
* The 12 Days of Christmas (For Memoirists & Family Historians) by Karen Ray on Karen Ray.
* Inheriting a Stranger by Jenny Hawran on Like Herding Cats.
* Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki – Part 2: Understanding Locality Pages by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
* The Evidence Problem in Genealogy by Nate Douglas on No Parents Listed.
* From Records to Story and Creating your own Google Vid by Carole McCulloch on Essential Genealogy.
* 2025 – The Top 10 List by Bob Taylor on The Family History Guide Blog.
* My Genealogy Goals for 2026 by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* My 2025 Research Year In Review by Marie Cooke Beckman on MarieB's Genealogy Blog -- Southeastern USA.
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
* The Chiddicks OIbserver Edition 37 (26 December 2025) by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.
* Friday’s Family History Finds [26 December 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* This week’s crème de la crème -- December 27, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
* GenStack [27 December 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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Copyright (c) 2025, Randall J. Seaver
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Thank for including me on your list his week. Happy New Year!
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