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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’ll 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.
GenClub
Lively discussion, fresh insights, and plenty of fun with the panel.
The panel: Jane Chapman, Anne Wendel, Lynda Heines, Julie Dove Lisa Maguire & Robin Stewart
Watch for GenClub’s First Episode of Season 2 with Paul Chiddicks!
Our Next Season of GenClub begins in August 2026.
The Storyteller Project is here!
The Storyteller Project is an 10-week guided experience for family historians who are ready to move their research into lasting story. Rooted in the principles of my book, Stewardship Matters: A Storyteller’s Guide to Preserving Family History, the project walks participants through the same arc of stewardship: shaping family history into credible, meaningful narratives, preparing those stories for publication, and making them findable for future generations. It’s free, community-centered, and designed for anyone who feels called to preserve the human record with care, intention, and purpose.
Welcome to The Storyteller Project
The Storyteller Project: Week 1
Stewardship Matters: A Storyteller’s Guide to Preserving Family History is here!
👉🏼If you’d like a copy of the Ebook, join the Coterie as a paid subscriber/member.
👉🏼If you prefer paperback, it is now available! Stewardship Matters: A Storyteller’s Guide to Preserving Family History.
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Stacked Between the Leaves
Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack
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Genealogy Matters Magazine
A grassroots magazine by and for family history storytellers.
Submissions Deadline for 1st 3 Issues is
June 10, 2026!
Don’t miss your chance to be a part of the inaugural issues of Genealogy Matters Magazine!
If you have been following along, you already know the magazine is being created to do something important: give family history stories a permanent, citable, archivable home. A place where the work our community puts into uncovering the past can last.
Here is how you can be involved.
Submit Your Work
We are currently open for submissions for Issues 1 through 3 (August, September, and October 2026), and we would love to publish your work.
We accept three types of pieces:
Feature Stories — the lead narrative for an issue; longer, deeply researched, original work. Fee: $75.
Family Stories — ancestor profiles, migration stories, discovery moments. Substack reprints are welcome. Fee: $25.
Storyteller’s Craft Articles — original pieces on writing, publishing, or preserving family history. Fee: $50.
All contributors receive payment upon publication, a byline and bio, and a 6-month complimentary digital subscription to the magazine.
First Round Submission deadline: June 10, 2026.
Second Round Submission deadline: August 10, 2026.
Become a Supporting Sponsor
Every issue of Genealogy Matters Magazine includes a Supporting Sponsors page recognizing Sponsorship-level subscribers and their work. As a Sponsorship subscriber to genealogymatters.substack.com, you can opt in each month to have your name, your Substack URL, and a short tagline listed on that page.
This is a Sponsorship-level subscriber benefit, not an ad. It appears in every issue you choose to be listed — for as long as you maintain your Sponsorship subscription.
If you are already a Sponsorship subscriber, watch for the opt-in form coming soon.
Not yet subscribed at the Sponsorship level? Subscribe here.
Advertise in the Magazine
We accept a small number of paid advertisements per issue — no more than four ad pages — from genealogy-related businesses, publishers, societies, and services. Ad sizes range from quarter-page to premium inside front and back cover placements.
Supporting Sponsorship level subscribers/members receive a 10% discount on all ad rates. And if you book before Issue 1 publishes, the early bird rate takes another 20% off your first issue.
To inquire, email robin@cuzens.com with the subject line Magazine Advertising.
This magazine exists because of this community. Thank you for being part of it.
— Robin, Founder & Editor, Genealogy Matters Magazine
Books on Genealogy & Family History
Genealogy and Family History Videos Published this Week
Genealogy and Family History Podcasts Published This Week
Faulty Memory and Reliable Records Annette Gendler
Where the Bark Keeps the Names Appalachian Genealogy & History
We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams: Neighborhood Day 2026 Wilma Jones
Harriet League Selves (1877 - 1952) Barry Rees
From Memory to Memoir Carole McCulloch
Right There CShiels and Angie Hansen
Welsh Family History Blogs, Free Talk, Tips & Tricks GenealCymru
Writing Alone vs. Writing Together (Inside the Rev War Writing Sprint) Chronicle Makers
She Did It Anyway Diane Wahn Shotton
A double success for Superintendent Moore Dr Nell Darby
Rigorous Methodology for Tracing Ancestors in English Apprenticeship Records Dr. Claire Brisson-Banks, AG
Bite-Sized Genealogy: Clues from the Graveyard 1 Erin E. Moulton
#My30 Family History Book Family History Hound Notebook
The Scars That Wouldn’t Heal: Two Priests, Two Parishes Natalie Zett
What She Gave Him Fran Davis
The Birtley Belgians and Me Freya Thompson
Finding Burials for Formerly Enslaved People Genealogy Just Ask - Robin
The Lund Covenant - 45: Ashes on the Wind Greg Maxfield
Messengers Hans Klose
Lessons from My Poppa Nikki | Hot Flashes Hot Takes
Did you find your Jamestown Ancestors Jeannette Holland Austin
Reading Between the Lines: A Five-Part Guide to Historical Newspapers Jen Baldwin
Warroad, 1968 Jill Swenson
Simpson Karen Holden
Searching for Adel Katherine Brodt
Class in Cookery: 6 January 1956 Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
Braided lives Lesley Lawson
Emma #228: July 1947 Linda Hoopes
History You Didn’t Learn in School. Lisa E Oakley
1949: Custard Snow Pie Lorinda Brandon
We are Now the Older Generation MelRootsNWrites
Three Meaningful Ways to Honor Your Immigrant Ancestors from Galicia This Immigrant Heritage Month Michelle Chubenko, AG, AGL
A Place that Matters Michelle Rees
Ahnentafel #28: Arvid William Holmquist (1880-1962) Mightier Acorns
MoCoGenSoc Spring Potluck - June 13 MoCo MD Genealogical Society
Toddlers and Angels Nancy Gilbride Casey
The Moment a Ghost Population Started Getting a Name Nate Douglas
“There Were Two Bullocks Alike” Nolene
June on the farm in 1943 Paige
Emily and Lyle’s Story: Coming Home -- Lyle’s Leave, July 1917 Randy Seaver, Geneaholic
The dream AI couldn’t enter: what happens when memory has no physical form Jenny Grouiller-Ruhland
Caroline Ellison: Writing Her Back Into View Sandra Barker
The Men Are in the Archive, the Women in the Wound Sarina, The Family Historian
The House Frances Built Savanna King
November 1, 1893 — The Easy Chair Club The Long Conversation
Talking about a revolution Xanthe Hall
Thienel’s Florist and the colorful flowers in New York Daniel Winkler
Thank you for the shout-out.
Grateful this week for a curated list as I've fallen behind on my reading and I see a few new things. Interesting piece of finding burial sites of formerly enslaved people.