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:
- Some of the new features at Ancestry by Marie Cooke Beckman on MarieB's GenealogyBlog -- Southeastern USA
- RootsTech 2026: World’s Largest Family History Event Wrap-up by Daine Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
- From Probate File to Video; AI From Transcription to …; Using Claude to Analyze Genealogy Data by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
- The Truth About Oäkta in some Swedish Birth Records by Kirsten M. Max-Douglas of Our Growing Family Tree.
- AI Handwritten Text Recognition Tools at the RootsTech Expo Hall by Nicole Elder Dyer on Family Locket
- What is British Colonial America and why is it used in FamilySearch? and Use the Not-So-New FamilySearch Owner Trees (formerly CET Trees) to Avoid the Family Tree Changes by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.
- AI Genealogy Mastery: Stop Guessing and Start Building Repeatable Ancestral Workflows by Carole McCulloch on NextGen Genealogy.
- Turning Genealogy Research Breakthroughs into Trusted Public Stories by Jon Marie Pearson on Genealogy and the Social Sphere.
- Revolutionary War Pension Files: Now Available Through Full-Text Search by Jenny Ashcroft on Fold3 HQ.
- RootsTech 2026 – The Wind Beneath Our Wings by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained -- Genetic Genealogy.
- Keep the RootsTech Momentum Going! by Natalie Webb on Family Tree Technology.
- RootsTech 2026 RoundUp: What Myrt Did For Spring Break by Pat Richley-Erickson on DearMYRTLE's Village Square.
- Five Things I Learned at RootsTech 2026 by Steve Little on Vibe Genealogy.
- Free Windows Software to Analyze Your Family Tree by Alice M. Prater on GenTales.
- When Records Disappear – Understanding Record Loss and Gaps and Legal Land Descriptions Explained by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
- 23andMe: An Unfortunate Update by Shannon Christmas on Through the Trees.
- What's new in Genealogy Assistant v3.1? by Dan Maloney on Genealogy Assistant.
- RootsTech 2026 Recap: Genealogy News and Announcements by Katharine Andrew on Family Tree Magazine.
- Five Reasons AI Thinks Genealogists are Glitchy by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
- MyHeritage Introduced ScribeAI at RootsTech: It’s Fabulous! by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches On the Family Tree.
- Five Questions by Jenny MacKay on Jenny's Scrapbook of Family History Stories.
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
- The Chiddicks Observer Edition 46 by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.
- Friday’s Family History Finds [13 March 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
- This week’s crème de la crème -- March 14, 2026 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
- GenStack [14 March 2026] by Robin Stewart on Genealogy Matters.
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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1 comment:
Thank you for including my post about Scribe AI this week. I was truly floored that it recognized phonetic Carpatho-Rusyn dialect - a language with very few speakers today.
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