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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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GenClub
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
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Our next guest will be
David Shaw
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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Stacked Between the Leaves
Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack
Stacked this Week (22 Stacked)
EduStack (3 Stacked)
BookStack (2 Stacked)
Video Presentations (13 Stacked)
Podcast (14 Stacked)
Additional This Week (48 Stacked)
Genealogy and Family History Blogs and Newsletters Published this Week
Diane Burley Jennifer Jones Alicia M Prater Paul Chiddicks Denyse Allen Anne’s Family History Barbara at Projectkin Emma - Journeys into Genealogy Aryn Youngless Lori Olson White Deborah Carl DearMYRTLE Jane Chapman Lynda Heines Dr. Mary M. Marshall Julie Dove Helene | Letters from LaBelle
GenStack Updates
📚BookStack
Crowd-sourced Book Suggestions for anyone interested in Genealogy and Family History.
Confidence doesn’t arrive before action. It’s built by returning to the work again and again.
Coming January 2026: The GenStack Coterie - Growth Experience
For Genealogy and Family History Content Creators.
If you’re a genealogy or family history content creator looking to grow with more clarity, confidence, and creative momentum in the new year, something special is on the way.
In January 2026, I’ll be hosting the GenStack Coterie Growth Experience—a guided kickoff designed to help you step into the new year with direction, purpose, and a content creator system that actually supports the work you want to create.
We’ll explore the foundations of meaningful growth for family history creators. This is more than a webinar—it’s the starting point for a transformative year inside the Coterie.
More details are coming soon, but for now:
Mark your calendar for January 2026.
A stronger, steadier, more intentional creative year is ahead.
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💛Special Thanks!
To Randy Seaver, Geneaholic for sharing GenStack on his Best of Genea-Musings blog.
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.
7 Easy and Unforgettable Ways to Share Your Life Story
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
5:00 PM PT/ 8:00PM ET
Flora M Brown
Chronicle Makers
Denyse Allen of Chronicle Makers 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 Aryn Youngless.
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.
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.
December BookStack
Crowd-sourced Book Suggestions for anyone interested in Genealogy and Family History.
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identiy, Race, Wealth, and Power
by Deirdre Mask
It was a good source of social history. Some readers complain about Mask reporting anecdotes and allowing her political views to influence her findings. But social history is not a hard science. Everyone’s experience is different even when participating in the same historical moment.
Hi Robin - just finished a book that would be an excellent rec for Bookstack. “Fatherland” by Burkhard Bilger (2023).
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
by Burkhard Bilger
The author gets interested in family history when he learns his grandfather was a Nazi administrator in occupied France. His family’s story, and the story of his grandfather, serve compelling and insightful analysis of the choices we make when we are trapped by history and how families come to terms with their forebears’ actions. There is an incredible twist (or two) to the story which is familiar to anyone who has experienced or read the history of occupation and collaboration. It’s a very rewarding read. ~ Lisa Maguire
Genealogy and Family History Videos Published this Week
Genealogy and Family History Podcasts Published This Week
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Membership in the GenStack Coterie offers a multi-faceted approach to supporting family history content creators.
Hearthside Storytelling Misty Hamilton Smith - Author
Life After Death Bryan Demchinsky
Transforming Family History Writing with AI: Carole McCulloch
Occupations throughout the years Emma
Census Pages with Multiple Page Numbers, Stowaway, AI Infographic, 1856 Guardian, How Many Funerals?, Probates Where He Never Died, 1858 County Atlas for Benjamin, Are They Brothers?, Upcoming Events Genealogy Tip of the Day
Learn about Spanish Surnames with this Free Webinar Hispanic Heritage 🅷🄷 Red Antepasados
Norval Morrisseau, Barenaked Ladies, and the biggest art fraud case in history Jill Swenson
Putting a face to the name Katherine Brodt
The Holiday Game That Surprised Everyone Kevin Ferguson
Letters Home: Voices From the Edge of War Our Growing Family Tree
What Being ‘The Help” was Really Like Liv Taylor-Harris
Christmas Caroling from a Truck Bed in Pennsylvania, 1950s Marian Beaman
AI and Metadata Maureen Taylor
It’s Not Easy Identifying People in Photographs MelRootsNWrites
The Forensics of Missing People in Records Nate Douglas
Mothers Fret About the Growing Flood Neil Sagebiel
Ask AI: Describe Jane Whittle’s Life At Age 13 in Tuolumne County, California in 1860 Randy Seaver, Geneaholic
What is the Cost of Staying Where You Are Shell Norman
Through three marriages and shifting eras, one man’s story reflects a century of change Tiffini Theisen
The Blenkiron Brothers Xanthe Hall
Gebackene Mäuse: A German Recipe for Hanukkah Annette Gendler
Fresh Additions Cheryl Rutledge-Brennecke
Stephen A. Eley, 1834 - 1908 Carol
Following the Drunkard’s Path Deborah Sweeney
The man who stopped coal thieves Dr Nell Darby
Mrs. Cornelius’ New York Ginger Snaps (1849) Erin E. Moulton
You Never Know Family History Hound Notebook
You’re invited to try OpenTranscribe! Genealogy Assistant
How to Actually Read Your DNA Results Genera Genealogical Services
If you are Searching for Revolutionary War Soldiers - - - Jeannette Holland Austin
The Right Tool for the Job Karen Ray
Grandad Lazarus Lesley Lawson
Emma #206: March-April 1944 Linda Hoopes
Why I’m Building a FAN Club for an Entire Midwestern USA Town Lisa Rex
1949: Londonderry Spice Cake Lorinda Brandon
Counting Cousins: An Open Question Mightier Acorns
Another Gem from the Christmas Memory Box Nancy Gilbride Casey
Joe The Camel, And Me Sitting Alone At My Desk Ollie - if Only i
Holiday Traditions Paula Collins
How the Laffites made me more understanding of the church’s obfuscating policies Savanna King
The Intimacy of Signatures Crystal Lorimor
It’s Never Over The Genealogian
Sanctuary, Revisited: The Church That Held Us All Lauren Maguire
The Hidden Power of Witnesses in Genealogy Research Kristy Larsen
Born After the Famine: A 160-Year Reflection Winkler and Mucha Family Tree
Acadian WikiTree, part 3 Ann G. Forcier
Struffoli and the Sweet Joy of Remembering Branches to Roots
Class in Cookery: 5 December 1947 Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
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