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.
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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:
* Gemini's AI Video for Genealogy: My First Ancestor Video Experiments (The Good, the Bad, and the Hilarious) by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.
* How Many Names Can One Person Have? by Deb Holman on Who We Are... and How We Got This Way.
* Elder Oral History Questions That Preserve Lives by Thomas MacEntee on Genealogy Bargains.
* Our Siblings’ Side of the Family Story by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry.
* Preserving My Blog and Three Free Tools for Finding Historical Newspapers by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
* Five Weeks of AI-Assisted Genealogy: Discoveries and Disappointments by Lisa Rex on Ancestor Audit.
* Remote access to subscription sites and so much more: the value in genealogy societies by Linda Yip on Past Presence.
* Ancestry’s "Describe This Event" Tool by Marie Cooke Beckman on MarieB's Genealogy Blog -- Southeastern U .S..
* New features in Genealogy Assistant | August 2026 by Dan Maloney on Genealogy Assistant.
* The Record That Names Relatives No One Else Will by N.P. Maling on Sea Genes Family History & Geneoalogy Research.
* The Dangerous, Dark Side of AI, and How to Protect Yourself by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.
* Research Mistakes – Ignoring the Women’s Side of the Family by Kenneth Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
* Migration Stories: Explore the Paths by Barbara Tien on Projectkin.
* Writing a Case Study for Publication: 7 Tips for Success by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:
* The Chiddicks Observer Edition 66 [3 August 2026] by Paul Chiddicks on Stories Behind the Records.
* Friday’s Family History Finds [7 August 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
* This week’s crème de la crème -- August 8, 2026 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.
* GenStack [8 August 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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1 comment:
Randy, thanks again for the shout out this week!
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