Best of the Genea-Blogs -- Week of 27 September to 3 October 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: 

*  Testing ChatGPT Deep Research for Genealogy: Can It Create a Professional Locality Guide? by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes In Your Family.

*  What Wasn't Written about Daniel's "Consort," Mildred by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.

*  Inside Genealogy’s United States Checklist by Rick Crume by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

  

*   Rain Man by Jeff Record on The Last Aha...

*  Will Genealogy Survive AI? by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  Meet Ancestria: Coni’s Muse Ancestria by Coni Dubois on 'Ever Widening Circle.'

*  A Little Planning. A Better RootsTech by Natalie Webb on Family Tree Technology.

*  Animating Charts, Advent of Agents, and Death of Chatbots by Steve Little on Vibe Genealogy.

*  New features in Genealogy Assistant | October 2026 by Dan Maloney on Genealogy Assistant.

*  Saving Genealogy Societies: How to Overcome 7 Challenges by Katherine Andrew on Family Tree Magazine.

*  How to Find Living Cousins Using Descendancy Research (And Why You’re Surrounded by Family) by Crista Cowan on Crista Cowan, the Barefoot Genealogist.

*  The AI Brief for Family Historians: October 2026 by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.

  

*  FOCUS: Step 1 – Seven Solutions for DNA Matches with Absent or Shrunken Trees by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

*  Bad Behavior in the Genealogy Space by Maureen Taylor on The Photo Detective News.

*  5 Places to Improve Your Genealogy Skills Online by Margaret M. McMahon on A Week of Genealogy.

  

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  The Chiddicks Observer Edition 73 (28 September 2026] by Paul Chiddicks on Stories Behind the Records.

*  Friday’s Family History Finds [2 October 2026] by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

* This week’s crème de la crème -- October 3, 2026 by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

* GenStack [3 October 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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