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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.
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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
Our Season 1 Episodes:
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 coming in 3 Days!
Stewardship Matters: The Storyteller’s Guide to Preserving Family History is coming soon.
If you’d like an advanced Ebook copy, join the Coterie as a paid subscriber/member.
The official record was never designed to hold the lives of ordinary people. The archive will not complete itself.
The stories are in your hands. The records that will never be found in the official history and the knowledge that exists about your family history, right now, is held by you.
That is the traction that builds alongside the collecting of research, records and family lore. The recognition that what you are holding is fragile, and that whether it survives depends entirely on what you do next.
That is where stewardship begins.
Stewardship Matters gives family historians the tools to make the shift from private knowledge to public record. In this guide, you will learn how to:
Write your family’s stories one scene at a time, anchored to evidence, so that a future researcher meets the person behind the name.
Create Collections from your existing published articles and blog posts.
Build unshakeable credibility by being transparent about what the record says, what you inferred from it, and where imagination filled in the gaps.
Publish and place your work so that a descendant you will never meet can type a name into a search bar fifty years from now and find what you left there.
The stories survive only if someone decides to carry them.
Then join us in the upcoming Storyteller Project (coming in 3 Days) as we walk through the steps of publishing your stories and making them findable for the long-game.
Joining us is easy. A friendly, supportive community of family historians awaits you.
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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.
Genealogy Matters Magazine is here — and there are several ways to be part of it.
If you have been following along, you already know the magazine exists 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.
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
Ask AI: “Describe The Courtship and Marriage of James and Hannah (Rich) Richman of Hilperton, Wiltshire in 1845” Randy Seaver, Geneaholic
Auction at Reedy Creek Nolene
The Frisbee Affair Deborah Sweeney
Pioneers of Hunting Creek, Call To Arms in 1776 Garry E Moore
Remembering Michael Kokoska Jennifer Holik
Bermuda Hundred Jeannette Holland Austin
Objects, Neighbors, and the Craft of Seeing John Cass
On May, migration, and coming home Paige
Special Delivery - A Messenger Boy’s Path to the Eastland Natalie Zett
The Relative Who Danced Into History Deanna - Totally Related
Reasonable Blackman: Wikipedia Page for a Non-Existent Historical Figure The Genealogian
The Genealogy Nobody Talks About Nate Douglas
1949: Ginger Tea Bread Lorinda Brandon
A Name We Never Knew CShiels and Angie Hansen
A Memoir That Humanizes the History of Land and Loss Naomi Yaeger
The Ancestor who appeared at forty-five Emma
Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity Steve Little
Old and Poor: What County Court Minutes Reveal About Appalachia’s Forgotten Poor Misty Hamilton Smith
The Meaning of Honor Mightier Acorns
Joy #26, Garden Snippets, DNA Ancestors Cheryl Rutledge-Brennecke
The Locke House Sean Patrick Hill
The 19th-Century Power Couple Who Helped Build Montreal Emily Gravelle
Bring back the council kid era.. Rain Aldous
New Kilbride and McAndrew Clues from Ireland Nancy Gilbride Casey
Baseball Fans--Don’t Miss This! Tim Grover
Migration Streams, What Were You Doing? Behle-Bailey, Clues from a Blond, a Late Guardian, Not Just One Source, Mullable Roses Genealogy Tip of the Day
A Profile in Political Courage: E. A. Morse An American Genealogy
TEN YEARS ON ANCESTRY Michael Lee Stills
What’s a Fun Fact About Me, You Ask? Flora M Brown
Class in Cookery: 31 August 1962 Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
Audio | Finding a Community Kevin Ferguson
Keeping up the good work Katherine Brodt
The Refrains We Inherit Shell Norman
An Englishman in New York Dr Nell Darby
Jefferson Grant, ca 1808 - ?? Carol
The Medicine Line: The Border That Crossed Us Red River, White Earth
Genera Genealogical Services Genera Genealogical Services
1942 and 1978: Memorial Day Across a Divide Anna Marcella
October 19, 1893 — Ethel Gets Homesick The Long Conversation
Chapter 1, continued Jill Swenson
What fancy plates meant to a child of immigrants Martina R. Williams
Has It Got Me Daniel Winkler
FamilySearch now has its own Migration Map for each line of your ancestors, and more Rob Melton
Thanks so much for including my Projectkin interview! It was so much fun!
Thank you Robbin for the mention!