Sunday, April 5, 2026

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 29 March to 4 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:

*  Bringing Ancestors to Life (Again): Testing NotebookLM’s New Cinematic Video Overview Feature by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  Documents That Prove Family Relationships by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.

*  Genealogy Tips: Research Her in HIS Activities by Gena Philibert-Ortega on GenealogyBank Blog.

*  The New FamilyTreeDNA NGS Family Finder Test by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained -- Genetic Genealogy.

*  Turn Anything into a GEDCOM File — With Any AI Tool and The Genealogical Research Assistant (GRA): Free for Every AI Platform by Steve Little on Vibe Genealogy.

*  Jonny’s RootsTech 2026 recap by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog.

*  What Makes You Crazy About Genealogy? by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.

* 5 Best AI Genealogy Research Prompts for Beginners: Finally, AI Genealogy Research That Doesn’t Feel Overwhelming by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.

*  A Visit to the Family Heritage Experience at American Ancestors  by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on Nutfield Genealogy.

*  Why AI Needs More Context: Lessons from a Mary Crawford Biography by Marcia Crawford P hilbrick on Heartland Genealogy.

*  What Your Census Records Are Actually Telling You (And What You’ve Been Missing) by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

*  DNA to Records, Triangulation to Documents by Nate Douglas on No Parents Listed.

*  A Visual Tagging System for DNA Matches by Jon Smith on Family Locket.

*  We Are Not Always Who We Think We Are: What Family History Teaches Us About Identity by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Modernizing Your Roots: Essential Tech Tips for the 21st-Century Genealogist by Carole McCulloch on Essential Genealogy.

*  A Calculated Guess Is Great by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week: 


*  Friday’s Family History Finds [3 April 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
*  GenStack [4 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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