Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 5 to 11 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:

*  Spring Cleaning Your Genealogy Cave: A Deal Hunter’s Guide to Upgrading Your Research Setup and Longeye: Police Detectives Have a New AI Partner. Genealogists Need One Too by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.

*  What The Records Won't Tell You by Jenny McKay on Jenny's Scrapbook of Family History Stories.

*  Finding LAC's Upper Canada Land Petitions by Ken MacKinlay on Family Tree Knots.

*  Meet Leo: The Handwritten Text Recognition Platform Built for Researchers by Nicole Elder Dyer on Family Locket.

*  Search by Town Alone for Unexpected Discoveries by DiAnn Iamarino O hama on Fortify Your Family Tree.

*  Clustering vs Triangulation by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology.

*  Checking Out Newspaper Finder by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.

*  Seeking the Ones Who Stayed Behind by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry.

*   Using AI to Build a Genealogical Proof Argument by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.

*  Three Documents, Three Record Types, and the One Story They Tell by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

*  250 Years of Record Survival: What’s Been Digitized, What Hasn’t, and Where to Look by Shannon Combs-Bennett on T2 Family History.

*  The Main Challenges of Full-text Search Part OneThe Main Challenges of Full-text Search Part One by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  Using Steve Little’s AI Genealogy Research Assistant V8.5.1c To Develop a Research Plan: Learning from Randy Seaver by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches On the Family Tree.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week: 

*  The Chiddicks Observer Edition 49 by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Friday’s Family History Finds [10 April 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  This week’s crème de la crème -- April 11, 2026 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack [11 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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