Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 26 April to 2 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:

*  ChatGPT Images 2.0 for Genealogy: Photo Enhancement by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  The First Three Rules for Using AI in Genealogy;  Keys to talking to a chatbot: Prompts and How to Evaluate an AI Website for Doing Genealogical Research by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  Substack Articles: Crafting the Details by Barbara Tien on Mission: Genealogy.

*  The Myth of Fold3 Military Records by Jennifer Holik on Soul Traveler.

*  Surprising DNA Segments: Why Unexpected Ethnicity Results Happen by Michelle on Legacy Tre3e Genealogists.

*  How To Create Images Using AI by Natalie Webb on Family Tree Technology.

*   Building Contextualized Ancestral Timelines by N.P. Maling on Sea Genes Family History & Genealogy Research. 

*  What You Can Say, What You Can Infer, and What You're Making Up When You Write by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

*  Understanding Your DNA Ethnicity Estimates: What They Tell You (And What They Don’t) by Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal on Heart of the Family.

*  They Were Buried Apart, But Reached for Each Other Across a Wall by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Understanding Reclaim the Records – An Interview with Brooke Schreier-Ganz and Alec Ferretti by  Melina Papadopoulos on Family Tree Magazine.

*  When “I Know I’m Right” Replaces Research: A Troubling Trend in Genealogy by Lori Samuelson on GenealogyAtHeart.com.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week: 

*  The Chiddicks Observer Edition 52 by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.

*  Friday’s Family History Finds [1 May 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  This week’s crème de la crème -- May 2, 2026 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

*  GenStack [2 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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