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:
* Bringing Ancestors to Life: Testing the New Video Feature in Google NotebookLM by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
* The gift only you can give this Christmas and My practical AI toolkit for family history for 2026 by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.
* Episode 37 is Live: Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and NotebookLM ,Your AI Research Assistant, Awaits and Navigating the AI Frontier: Where AI Helps Genealogy—and Where It Fails: A Practical Guide from Five Leading Practitioners and Ask the Hard Questions: What’s Really at Stake with AI in Genealogy? by Steve Little on AI Genealogy Insights.
* How to Use Ancestry DNA Custom Clusters in Your Research – with Video by Nicole Elder Dyer on Family Locket.
* Where My Family History Finally Found Its Voice and Transforming Family History Writing with AI by Carole McCulloch on Essential Genealogy.
* AI Standards in Genealogy: Why Transparency Matters and Playing around with Google Notebook LM Slide Deck by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
* Ancestry’s ThruLines Has a New Pedigree View and Ancestry Reverts ThruLines to the Original View by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.
* University Genealogy Collections around the US by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.
* Searching Reclaim the Records' New York State Death Index by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
* My First Full Text Search Success by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.
* Stuck on a Pennsylvania Brick Wall? AI + Research Strategy Can Break Through by Denyse Allen on PA Ancestors.
* There's Always Time for a Detour by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry.
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
* The Chiddicks Observer Edition 34 [1 December 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 -- December 6, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
* GenStack [6 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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