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:
* Combining Google NotebookLM’s Slide Deck with Google Slides and Google Vids: A Fast, Powerful New Workflow for Genealogists by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
* Looking Back and Looking Forward and After the Holidays, Before the New Year: A Better Way to Organize Your Photos in 2026 by Ellen Thompson-Jennings on Hound On the Hunt.
* When All You Need is a Little Prompt..... by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.
* What we built together in 2025 by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.
* A Mohawk Valley Mystery: Who Were the Parents of Maria (Crouse) Cretser born c. 1796? by Jennifer Peace Willis on Plough and Anchor Genealogy.
* Memorable Genealogy Year: A Year of Growth and Discovery by Kirsten on Our Growing Family Tree.
* The Gardener’s Gambit by Jeff Record on The Last Aha.
* 2025 Genetic Genealogy Retrospective: Wow – What a Year! and Y-DNA Results at 20 Years: Answers, Lessons, Methods, and Workarounds by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.
* Coach Carole's AI Workflow by Carole McCulloch on Essential Genealogy.
* Skating to Where the Puck is Going to Be: Beginning Vibe Genealogy in 2026 and Sixty-Two Ancestors in Twenty-Three Days: The Sprint Is Complete by Steve Little on AI Genealogy Insights.
* Genealogy Tips: Your Photographs Will Be Thrown Away by Gena Philibert-Ortega on GenealogyBank Blog.
* 2025 Stats by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
* Finding Your Ancestors Using the FamilySearch Digital Library by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
* Unlocking Family History with ChatGPT: AI Tools for Genealogy Research by Barbara J. Starmans on Out of My Tree Genealogy.
* 4 Common Points of Stress in the Lineage Society Application Process – and How to Avoid Them by Bryna O'Sullivan on Charter Oak Genealogy.
* Documenting an Ancestor Through Land Deeds by Marie Cooke Beckman on MarieB's Genealogy Blog - southeastern Genealogy.
* DNA Laddering: Quickly Identify Unknown Matches by Rick T. Wilson on MyFamilyPattern.com.
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
* The Chiddicks Observer Edition 38 (30 December 2025) by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.
* Friday’s Family History Finds [2 January 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* This week’s crème de la crème -- January 3, 2026 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
* GenStack [3 January 2026] 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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