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If you’re looking for the answer to the question, “Where can I find excellent genealogy or family history blogs, newsletters, podcasts, videos or books?” you will find them right here on GenStack. With so many content creators dedicated to family history and genealogy curated in weekly posts on GenStack, you are certain to find exactly what you’re looking for.
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Our next guest will be
who writes Serengenity. Watch for this episode in mid December 2025.
If you’d like to be in on what we are talking about in our next GenClub episode, you can read David Shaw’s article:
Mt. Tambora: the Eruption that Rewrote My Family’s Destiny
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Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack
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Storyteller Tuesday Posts (1 Stacked)
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EduStack (4 Stacked)
Video Presentations (10 Stacked)
Podcast (12 Stacked)
Additional This Week (58 Stacked)
Genealogy and Family History Blogs and Newsletters Published this Week
GenStack Updates
Dear Family History and Genealogy Content Creators
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Crowd-sourced Book Suggestions for anyone interested in Genealogy and Family History.
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💛Special Thanks!
To for sharing GenStack on his Best of Genea-Musings blog.
Genealogy and Family History Communities
EduStack
Discover exceptional learning opportunities in Genealogy and Family History, led by independent genealogy educators. They share their expertise so you can gain the exact knowledge and skills you need.
RGS November 2025 General Meeting: Bill Moore: AI for Genealogy
18-Nov-2025
6:45 PM - 9:00 PM ESTBill Moore, RGS 2nd Vice-President, will present a session called AI for Genealogy - Using Technology to Find Family Connections.
Jane Hutcheon’s Show & Tell
has an upcoming introductory course on
Canva Essentials for Family Historians
on behalf of the Society for Australian Genealogists (SAG) on:
Wednesday 3 December 2025 at 7-8.30 pm AEST.
Chronicle Makers
Genealogy Research Lab
of Genealogy Research Lab shows you how to use AI to give you personal, expert help on all genealogy research problems.
Discover Your Past: From Research to Novel
Learn how to turn your family history into a compelling novel or work of creative nonfiction with professional genealogist .
Storyteller Tuesdays
Your Story Matters
What are Storyteller Tuesdays? Each week, anyone in the family historian community here on Substack is invited to take the challenge. Your response to the challenge should address the prompt/question directly and meet the Tuesday deadline. That’s it.
After that, watch for links to the amazing posts right here in the Storyteller Tuesdays section of GenStack.
Last week for Storyteller Tuesday…
Your challenge, EDUCATED EVOLUTION was accepted by the following authors, who tell great stories. Check the article out here:
This week and through the end of 2025, the Storyteller Tuesday Challenge will be from the Challenge Archives. If you’re looking for a challenge, submit your article by Tuesday to be added to GenStack the following Tuesday.
Storyteller Tuesday Challenge
While I am deeply grateful for the wonderful response each week, the Storyteller Tuesday Challenge will be on pause for the remainder of 2025.
Genealogy and Family History Videos Published this Week
Genealogy and Family History Podcasts Published This Week
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Strategic learning opportunities
A kind and collaborative community
Celebrating Motty’s first year [in pictures]
Gertrude Lucy Maria Franks (1878-1964)
Dana Margaret Williams & her China Doll
The Day Ada Acker Chose Tomorrow
Day 4 of 30 x 30minutes of Family History Challenge
My South Sea Bubble
Widow’s Pensions Beyond the Civil War: Appalachian Women in Spanish–American and WWI Records
From Microfilm to Machine Learning
The Poor Man’s Marble: Discovering Cartapesta the Art Born From Scarcity
Nannie “Annie” Crawford Polk Woolford, 1848 - 1915
AI and Your Family History
A 1919 ocean liner voyage to see World War One ruins Pt. 2
Emotional Inheritance: The DNA We Don’t Talk About
“Killing” a Terrorist - The Rights and Wrongs
Exit in a furniture van
The soldiers in my tree
Help Protect our Access to Historical Wills
Revolutionary War Patriots: Tracing Your Patriot Ancestor
On my half Apulian table in October
Kentucky Irishmen
Whispers in the Silence
News of a Suicide in 1903
Creating a Toolbox of Brilliant Ways to Help Others Save Cherished Memories
Class in Cookery: 19 January 1951
Ancestral Neighbours Episode 6
The British Twist Behind America’s Wine Revolution
Four Sets of Twins: Two Families, Remarkable Stories, and Missing Records
A Short War Story
Gaolhouse Chronicles: The Body in the Box
Emma #202: September 1943
William Dawson, Coffeeman, Brandy and Spirits Merchant: Following a Yorkshire Farmer’s Son Through London
1949: Glazed Apple Dumplings
Bernice Crawford Allen
Erica Bakes My Mom’s Pumpkin Pie
A Return, a Garden, and What Comes Next
Gungirl, Abortioneer & Crime Traveler
The Stick Lady
The Best of Plans...
My Grandmother’s Rice Pudding Recipe
Ancestry research sometimes follows strange leads that go nowhere or opens doors to past mysteries(that still can’t be answered).
Lives and Fortunes: Three Revolutionary War Americans Mightier Acorns
Readers Remember My Mom
One Second Of Impact On The Slopes Was Life Changing.
Stanly County, North Carolina, One Place
Life Memories of Norman Seaver (1734-1787) - An AI-Assisted Memoir
What’s Her Name
Approaching history as a scientist
The Winter Blues
Not Writing About Writing
Lost Poems From Angel Island
Great Scott! Another Neighbor in the Raven Rocks Farm Community
Camp Wikoff: Quiet Heroism, Diet Kitchens, and Veterans Day Remembrance
5 Mistakes I Made When I Started Researching My Family Tree
He Served at Vicksburg--or Did He?
Creating a ‘zine family history project: Favorite Family Recipes with pics, biographies about the cooks!
In this Interview About Life Stories I Reveal My Favorite Holiday Story and More
“Unleashed”
Your GenClub is such fun, bringing in some of Substack’s most talented genealogy writers. What a wonderful way to celebrate their insight and inspire the rest of us. Huzzah!
This comprehensive colection makes it so much easier to discover new voices in the genealogy community. The GenClub episodes are particuarly valuable for learning from experienced researchers. Its like having a curated guide to the best genealogy content.