Sunday, June 21, 2026

Best of the Genea-Blogs -- Week of 14 to 20 June 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:

*  Yes, Online Family Trees Are Sources by Paul K. Graham on Ask A Genealogist.

*  AI in Genealogy Beyond Research: How I Create Speaking Invites in Seconds by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  DNA Doesn’t Care About Pedigrees: What a Royal Study Just Proved About Genealogy by Lori Samuelson on GenealogyAtHeart.com.

*  The DNA Doesn't Lie — And It Just Turned Everything Upside Down by Amy Crooks on Untangled Family Roots.

*  Making Sense of Historical Documents with AI by Alice Childs on GenealogyNow.

*  Reconstructing the World of Philippe Mius’s Unknown Mi’kmaq Wife (c1663-c1685) – 52 Ancestors #480 by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained -- Genetic Genealogy.

*  Artificial Intelligence, Family Photos and Humility by Janna Helshtein on DNA At Eye Level.

*  Why I Keep Writing These Stories by Paul Chiddicks on Stories Behind the Records.

*  The Ancestor Map of My Dreams for Free by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.

*  Turn Your AI into A Genealogy Research Team by Mark Thompson on Making Family History.

*  Advanced Education Opportunities for Genealogists by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches On the Family Tree.

*  Your First Two Hours of Genealogy Research by Aryn Youngless on Genealogy By Aryn.

*  Drinking Through a Fire Hose! by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology.

*  Welcome to the AI Genealogy Starter Campus by Carole McCulloch on Essential Genealogy.

*  When AI Makes Assumptions and Thinking AI and Genealogy by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.

*  Your Wonderful AI Assistant – Sometimes Wrong, Never Unsure, Always Convincing by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained -- Genetic Genealogy.

*  When You Find A Voice You Thought Was Gone by Jenny MacKay on Jenealogy Scrapbook of Family Memories.

*  Reading Between the Lines, Part 4: What Changes When We Add Context? by Jen Baldwin on Jen Baldwin. 

*  Late Loyalists and the Myth of One-Way Migration by Katherine Lake Hogan on Looking4Ancestors.

 . . . But Then, There's Charlemagne by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week: 


*  Friday’s Family History Finds [19 June 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
*  GenStack [20 June 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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