Best of the Genea-Blogs -- Week of 17 to 23 May 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:

*  Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy: What to Do When Family Secrets Emerge by Paul Chiddicks on My Family Tree and Other Stories.

* My Amazing Week with AI and Big Projects by Diana Bryan Quinn on Moments In Time: A Genealogy Blog.

*  Finding Living Relatives: How a Weekend of Deep-Dive Research Reconnected Me to My Mom’s Family by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  Gathering all the elements of a Proof Argument by Teresa Basinska Eckford on Writing My Past.

*  Another Huge Discovery with FamilySearch’s Full Text Tool by Melvin Collier on Roots Revealed.

*  Your Genealogy Online -- Public, Private or Working? and A Guide to Land and Property for Genealogists: Understanding Estates in Land and Land Tenure by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  Understanding Mitochondrial DNA: A Guide to Tracing Your Maternal Ancestry by Caleb on Legacy Tree Genealogists. 

*  Homestead Act of 1862: How to Find Your Pioneer Ancestors in Free Land Records by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.

*  AI Mentors by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.

*  Finished Beats Perfect: The First Draft Is Done by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

*  Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity by Steve Little on Vibe Genealogy.

*  Ancestry API Changes and Why Backups Matter by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.

*  Finding Annie and the Mayflower Descendants of Ruth Fuller Francisco by Jeff Record on The Last Aha...

*  The Genealogy Nobody Talks About by Nate Douglas on No Parents Listed.

*  Whose Truth Is It Anyway? by Payl Chiddicks on Stories Behind the Records.

*  A Surprisingly Useful AI Genealogy Trick: Searching Plat Maps by Heidi Buck on The Technical Genealogist.

*  Further experiments with AI and genealogical documents by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper's Blog.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week: 

*  The Chiddicks Observer Edition 55 [18 May 2026] by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Friday’s Family History Finds [22 May 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  This week’s crème de la crème -- May 23, 2026 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack [23 May 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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