Sunday, April 19, 2026

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 12 to 18 April 2026

 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.


My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for most daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  Before the Front: What the Records Taught Me by Brenda Leyndyke on Journey To the Past.

*  All About Genealogy Podcasts! by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  A Box, Two Extracts, One Unexpected Discovery by Kristen M. Max-Douglas on Our Growing Family Tree.

*  The Main Challenges of FamilySearch Full-text Search, Part Two and Part Three by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  Book Review: Thomas MacEntee’s Speaking Your Roots by Natalie Webb on Family Tree Technology.

*  One Genealogy Project to Answer All the Questions by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.

*  A Different Look at Richmond Hammond’s Military Career by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.

*  The 1926 Irish Census Is Coming: Everything You Need to Know About Ireland’s Most Anticipated Genealogy Release by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.

*  Genealogical Research Process — Estimating Dates by N.P. Maling on Sea Genes Family History & Genealogy Research.

Building a Proof Argument (When Your Sources Disagree) by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

*  Ancestors Calling: Science, Synchronicity and Sources by Judy Nimer Muhn on Lineage Journeys.

*  The 3 Layers of Decisions That Turn Genealogy Into a Story by Devon Noel Lee on Family History Fanatics.

*  How to Solve Genealogy Mysteries Using My ABC Approach by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Sixteen Unique Trees at FamilyTreeDNA: How and When to Use Each by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained -- Genetic Genealogy.

The Looooong Wait for the 1926 Census for Ireland Is Over by Annette Kapple on AK's Genealogy Research.

*  Tips for Using the New FamilySearch Simple Search Tool  by Diana Elder on Family Locket.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week: 


*  Friday’s Family History Finds [17 April 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
*  GenStack [18 April 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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