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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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Book Stack
Once a month, I will highlight books you’ve suggested we read and think others might enjoy too. It could be a family history, a memoir, or about genealogy.
Do you have a book you think we should read? Let me know about it!
When you recommend it, I will give your Substack a shout out on GenStack for suggesting it. Please send me your suggestions here:
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Stacked Between the Leaves
Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack
Stacked this Week (26 Stacked)
Storyteller Tuesday Posts (4 Stacked)
August BookStack ( 4 Stacked)
Video Presentations (22 Stacked)
Podcast (10 Stacked)
Additional This Week (41 Stacked)
Genealogy and Family History Blogs and Newsletters Published this Week
Congratulations to Jennifer Jones on the success of her 50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge!
Congratulations to Diane on completing the 50-Day Family History Blogging Challenge by from !
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, BREAKING BONDS was accepted by the following authors, who tell great stories. Check them out here:
This week for Storyteller Tuesday, the challenge is DELECTABLE DOCUMENT:
Storyteller Tuesday Challenge: Delectable Document
Storyteller Tuesday Challenge – DELECTABLE DOCUMENT
August BookStack
Crowdsourced Book Suggestions for anyone interested in Genealogy and Family History.
The Cost of Free Land
By Rebecca Claren
She researches her Jewish great-grandparents who immigrated and homesteaded in South Dakota and the Lakota family who were displaced. ~
Propaganda Girls
Because it tells the largely unknown story of four women who created propaganda during WWII, and one of the women was Marlene Dietrich. Plus, I wrote it! ;-) ~
Dancing with Muddy
By Jerry Portnoy
Fascinating, quick moving, funny stories, blues music, favorite songs & musicians ~ Ann
Dennis Village Walking Tour - History Revisited (Private Newsletter)
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
By David von Drehle
Social History is an important part of my Substack writing. While Tammany Hall was mentioned in a single sentence in one of my classes, it was never explained. This book explains the politics clearly and how it affected the labor movement. Other aspects discussed were how women dressed at the time and working conditions in the clothing factories. ~
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Genealogy and Family History Videos Published this Week
Genealogy and Family History Podcasts Published This Week
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The Call, the Train, and the Wife Back Home: Earl Mack Douglas and the Sightseeing Sixth
Bombsight Bertha
Still Searching for Laverta Eley Etheredege Shepherd (Wilner???) Bates, 1879 - 1943 (Maybe)
The Arc of Salt and Sorrow
The Girl from The Devil’s Acre, London’s Worst Slum - Elizabeth Sedgewick
The Manchester beer poisoning scandal
Forgotten Places
Townsend, a detective and a thief
David Charles Jones
The World Trade Center: A New Challenge Awaits.
NEW This Week - 28 July 2025
Muskey, Paper Neighborhoods, After Gone, New Rendering, Who Gets Tombstone, Full-Text Finding, DNA Half Splits, Hypocorism, Cemetery Maps
35. Felix Abraham
270th birthday
Discovering Relatives and Old Photographs
Energy of Physical Items from War
For a dollar a day
All aboard with Spice Cadet
How the Victorians Created A Female Celebrity
Class in Cookery: 4 June 1948
Worlds Apart: A New Life Down Under. Part Two of the Story of Sister Jo Couche.
Stories of Ancestors Who Served in Wars
Emma #187: July 1942
1949: Sally's Hurry Up Cake
Mother Ruth Metzler Longenecker 1918-2014: Her Life in Pictures
Tracking Down the Revolutionary War Generation
Great‑Grandma Merle’s Travelogue
Beyond Your Backyard
The Two-Year Quest for My Ancestor’s Immigration Record
Biography of William Samuel Galloway (1811–1901)
Lagged for Life
Ten Interview Questions and Answers for Rev. Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872) of New England in 1870
Genealogy: What’s the Big Rush?
Family Reunion Update
Hard Times: The Story of Lester Frye
One Line in the Lease
How to find your Saint-Domingue ancestors
WILLIAM ALDRIDGE (about 1770 - 1832) and KEZIA TURLEY SMITH (1798 - 1870)
July 2025 Encyclical
In Back Creek Valley, a man who left things better than he found them
Surviving a Widowmaker
Thank you once again for including my post in your weekly GenStack. It’s always fantastic to read through all the articles and blogs in the collection to expand on my understanding in genealogy.
Thank you for the mention! ❤️