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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
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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Watch for our Next Episode with Bill Moore!
Our Next episode of GenClub will post the first week of February. If you’d like to read along with us, we will be talking with Bill Moore of Family History with Bill Moore. We will read the first three in his My Moore Family in America series:
You know your genealogy work is important. So why does it feel so hard to keep going?
The isolation gets heavy. Decisions about what to work on next feel overwhelming. Motivation comes and goes, and there’s no one who really understands.
You need more than tips. You need structure, community, and a guide who gets it.
That’s what GenStack Coterie provides: a research-grounded system for sustainable creative work, a supportive community that values stewardship over speed, and clear frameworks that help you keep moving forward with confidence.
Join the GenStack Coterie. Your work deserves this kind of support.
In this article, I talk about using the Notion app. I encourage you to read it if you are looking for a way to work through some of the obstacles to telling your family history stories.
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Stacked Between the Leaves
Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack
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Storyteller Challenges ( 6 Stacked)
Video Presentations (13 Stacked)
Podcast (12 Stacked)
Additional This Week (62 Stacked)
Genealogy and Family History Blogs and Newsletters Published this Week
Kirsi Dahl Aryn Youngless Diane Burley Alicia M Prater Paul Chiddicks Lori Olson White Deborah Carl Denyse Allen Jennifer Jones Barbara at Projectkin Anne Wendel Helene | Letters from LaBelle Cynthia Boatright Raleigh Anne’s Family History Julie Dove Emma - Journeys into Genealogy David Shaw Lauren Maguire
GenStack Updates
💛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.
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.
The Storyteller Tuesday Challenge continues, but in a different form for the next 8 weeks. I hope you take part in this multi-layered adventure into your own Sixteen.
The Your Sixteens - Storyteller Tuesday Challenge is an invitation to write about eight couples from that generation, one couple at a time, using storytelling prompts designed to move beyond names and dates and toward lived experience.
Week 2! Articles for the Your Sixteens Storyteller Tuesday Challenge!
Here are the posts made by 6 amazing family history writers here on Substack. Make sure you visit their publications to find much more on their families and genealogy advice.
Have you checked out where these Your Sixteens Storyteller Tuesday Challenges live on Genealogy Matters?
Your Sixteens - An Ordinary Day
Your Next Challenge
Due: January 20, 2025
BookStack
Crowd-sourced Book Suggestions for anyone interested in Genealogy and Family History.
Adam Campbell Family History: Scotch-Irish Ancestry and 19th Century American Migration
by Garry E Moore
Adam Campbell Family History: Scotch-Irish Ancestry and 19th Century American Migration traces the lineage of Adam Campbell through a combination of colonial records and modern genetic genealogy. Drawing on Y-DNA evidence, Dr. Garry Moore explores Campbell’s Scotch-Irish origins and follows the lives of nearly 1,500 descendants who settled across 30 U.S. states. The book documents family members who participated in major American conflicts from the Revolutionary era through the World Wars, and it situates the Campbell family within their broader 18th-century community by including profiles of neighbors, enslaved individuals, and African American descendants. Together, these elements reconstruct the life and legacy of an early pioneer who migrated from Virginia to northern Rowan County, North Carolina, before the American Revolution.
My Lineage from the Roots Up: Volume 2
by Alicia M Prater
An illustrated genealogical history of the Prater-England branch, tracing both maternal and paternal lines through immigration, conflict, oppression, and cultural change. Supported by genetic genealogy and meticulous sourcing, the volume offers researchers a clear lineage narrative with an index available from Aliconia Publishing.
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Genealogy and Family History Videos Published this Week
Genealogy and Family History Podcasts Published This Week
Happy 101st Heavenly Birthday Nan Emma
Nana’s Persian Lamb Coat Annette Gendler
The Winter of the Deep Snow: When the Mountains Fell Silent Misty Hamilton Smith - Author
Walter Rees (abt 1747 - 1824) Barry Rees
Frank, WHERE were you born? Carol
The ‘AI Artisan Storyteller’ Model: Carole McCulloch
Andrew Henry’s Meadow Catherine Metzger
Small Segments, Big Stories Nate Douglas
Pull Up a Sand Bag Dominus Owen Markham
Mr Judge, briefly a private eye Dr Nell Darby
My Scottish Conundrum Elizabeth Patten
Looking Back, Looking Forward Erin Hoover
Ancestry Library Learning Center Erin E. Moulton
Take Care of Business First. Cry Later. Flora M Brown
Negative Evidence Analysis: Proving Facts Through What’s Missing Genera Genealogical Services
42. Erich Marx at Work Geoffrey Marx
225th birthday bibliothekla
England Parish Registers Find Ancestors Jeannette Holland Austin
Air Force Award Cards, 1942-1963 Jennifer Holik
Funeral of Kakakeese (”Little Crow”) at the Warroad Mission Covenant Church Jill Swenson
The death of Eva Sparberg - Age 7 - October 1900 John Newmark
Dive Bars, True Crime, & Small-Town Secrets Julia Madsen
Goals, Quests and Getting Stuff Done Kathy Stone
Class in Cookery: 8 June 1951 Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
Beyond the Barbed Wire: What Stephen Marcisak’s POW Journal Reveals About Survival Our Growing Family Tree
Features of an Old House, Part Three Laura
Ancestor portraits Missing pieces
Emma King’s Bastardy Bond Leslie Still
Gaolhouse Chronicles: The Body in the Box | Part IV Lex Knowlton
Emma #209: September-October 1944 Linda Hoopes
Applying Context to my Ancestor Stories Lisa Gorrell
1949: Cocoa Layer Cake Lorinda Brandon
How My Dad’s Knife Sharpening Lessons Became a Tool in My Life Kit Marian Beaman
THE OBITUARY SEATTLE NEVER WROTE Michael Lee Stills
The Dunecht body theft Alison Baxter
Catastrophe on the Chicago River — Part 2: The Archive Finds Keep Coming Natalie Zett
Executing a Research Game Plan for 2026 Genealogy Happy Hour
Railroads in Deeds, Finding that Online Atlas, If Your Care, My Old Corrections Genealogy Tip of the Day
It was a Big Decision to Leave the Azores for Hawaii MelRootsNWrites
What this story means to me Michelle Rees
Ahnentafel #10: Russ Clark, Sr. (1920-2002) Mightier Acorns
January 20, 1893 — Morris to Ethel Molly Kimball
1917 Daisy Lau Reel w Music by Kamaka Pahinui (I Adore U Danny String Remix) My Crazy Family Tree™
Add an Alert Note to FamilySearch Nancy Gilbride Casey
What Townlands Tell Us (and What They Don’t) Nolene
Rehab Ollie - ifOnlyi...
Elder William Newton Phariss of Texas Paul Hawthorne
Stanly county, North Carolina, One Place Study Paula Collins
The Fractures in the Story Rain Aldous
Life Memoir of William Hutchinson (1745-1826) of Walsingham, Upper Canada in 1825 Randy Seaver, Geneaholic
WHY I LOVE MY HUNGARIAN HERITAGE Rhonda Mária Copher
what would make me feel good going into this week? Sara Joelle
An update: Henry Schuyler Thibodaux’s Y results Savanna King
Common Sense Motivations Scott Osborn
The House on Bram Street Shell Norman
Meet Your New Research Partner, Claude Code Steve Little
Sorting through family history relics doesn’t have to be painful Rob Melton
MY FIRST PLANE FLIGHT Susan Austin
Two Random Items About Abe Lincoln & Olive Grover Tim Grover
Chapter 20: The Tips of Their Noses Willis Smiley
Part I of Changing names and identities to rebel, hide, and survive: Winkler and Mucha Family Tree
Alfred Victor – Dancing with Death Xanthe Hall
