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:
* Exploring Google NotebookLM’s New Infographic and Slide Deck Features for Genealogy by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
* When Birthdates Don’t Agree: Analyzing and Correlating Evidence by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
* Your Family Tree's Top 10s by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.
* Huge Find for Loyalist John Adams, Fairfield, CT to Canada 1783 by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* Analyzing Crawford Network Using Google Vids and AI Pedigree Chart Failures by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
* Adventures in Ordering an Alien Registration AR-2 by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
* You're invited to try OpenTranscribe! by Dan Maloney on Genealogy Assistant.
* What’s happening when AI restores a family photograph? and 12 questions that beat "how's work?" at that holiday gathering by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.
* When ChatGPT Invents Data Despite Clear Prompts by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.
* Let’s Make a Resume for My Ancestor by Lisa S. Gorrell on My Trails Into the Past.
* Wisconsin: Great Grandmothers and the Great Migration by Crista Cowan on Crista Cowan.
* Walking the Western Front: My Journey Through History and Memory by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.
* Fun Prompt Friday: Mickey Mouse Comes to Your Family Tree—Plus a Prompt That Makes AI Cite Its Sources by Steve Little on AI Genealogy Insights.
* Using the FamilySearch Research Wiki – Part 1: Getting Started by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
* Solving the Genealogist’s AI Dilemma in 2026 by Carole McCulloch on Essential Genealogy.
* Can Gemini 3 do valid genealogical research? by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
* The Chiddicks Observer Edition 35 [8 December 2025] by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.
* Friday’s Family History Finds [12 December 2025] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* This week’s crème de la crème -- December 13, 2025 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
* GenStack [13 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
2 comments:
Thank you for including my post in your list this week!
Thanks for including my post about John Adams. Best find I've had in a long time! Just shows that we should never say "never" as we don't know when just the record we want turns up, especially now with full-text search.
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