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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
The Storyteller Project: Week 2
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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💛Special Thanks!
To Randy Seaver, Geneaholic for sharing GenStack on his Best of Genea-Musings blog.
To everyone who restacks, comments, likes, and shares GenStack.
Your support truly makes a difference. Every interaction increases the visibility of genealogy content creators who are doing the careful, dedicated work of preserving and publishing family history. It matters more than you know.
Genealogy Matters Magazine
A grassroots magazine by and for family history storytellers.
Our first Call for Submissions is now closed. Watch for the next Call coming at the end of June — and we look forward to making you a part of Genealogy Matters Magazine.
What does being part of Genealogy Matters Magazine really mean?
It means your family history story doesn’t disappear.
So much of what we uncover — the late nights tracing ship manifests, the courthouse records, the handwritten letters — lives in notebooks, blog posts, and memory. Here, it gets a permanent home. A citable, archivable, lasting home.
Genealogy Matters Magazine exists because family history deserves more than a footnote. It deserves a place on the shelf.
And it deserves to be written by people like you.
We’d love to publish your work.
The next Call for Submissions opens at the end of June, with spots available for Issues 1 through 3 — August, September, and October 2026.
We publish three types of pieces, because family history takes many forms:
Feature Stories — the heart of each issue. A longer, deeply researched narrative that takes readers somewhere they’ve never been. Fee: $75.
Family Stories — ancestor profiles, migration stories, the moment a discovery changed everything. Substack & blog reprints are welcome here. Fee: $25.
Storyteller’s Craft Articles — your insights on writing, publishing, or preserving the stories that matter. Original pieces that help our whole community do this work better. Fee: $50.
Every contributor receives payment upon publication, a byline and full bio, and a 6-month complimentary digital subscription to the magazine.
Because writers deserve to be compensated. And your work deserves to be read.
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
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Genealogy and Family History Videos Published this Week
Genealogy and Family History Podcasts Published This Week
Searching for Samuel and Charlotte Taylor Emma
A Victorian novel for today Alison Baxter
My Love Affair with Typewriters Amy Abbott
Don’t Hand Over the Microphone Annette Gendler
Killing Rock: When Moonshine, Murder, and Corporate Power Collided in the Virginia Mountains Misty Hamilton Smith
What I Know About Juneteenth That Didn’t Come From a Hashtag Wilma Jones
Pick a Spot, Any Spot. Barry Rees
Your Bicentennial Memories Are Here: Life on the Wagon Train Denyse Allen
Peter Dickson/Dixon, May 26 1810 - July 31, 1875 Carol
What Are PLSS Coordinates in Cemetery Records? Steve Johnson
Before She Left, Something Left Her CShiels and Angie Hansen
Living in Different Worlds Dominus Owen Markham
George’s Transatlantic Life Dr Nell Darby
London Westminster and Middlesex Family History Society with Elizabeth Burling Emma - Journeys into Genealogy
FamilySearch Full-Text Search: Find Records You Didn’t Know Existed Family History Hound Notebook
Great Fathers Were Present, Not Perfect Flora M Brown
The Clue in the Old Almanac: Solving an Eastland Mystery Natalie Zett
Stay in the Sun Fran Davis
Mom’s Residence, Noname Details, Pedigree Charts, Get Some Color, Typos, Data Entry, and More Genealogy Tip of the Day
How To Read Cyrillic Records Genera Genealogical Services
47. School Changes Geoffrey Marx
Returning to Puglia, Farming, and a Simple Cucina Contadina Recipe for Warm Summer Days Giovanna Solimando
The Kislingbury Independent Mission Graham Ward
The Children Who Went to Hospital Alone Helen Parker-Drabble
Get to know Dead Gossip Nikki | Hot Flashes Hot Takes
NGS 2026 Fort Wayne: ACPL Genealogy Center J. Paul Hawthorne
Interesting Comments in Old Georgia Wills Jeannette Holland Austin
Reading Between the Lines: Part 3 ... What Language Shapes Our Judgment? Jen Baldwin
The Trading Post in Warroad Jill Swenson
How Every Historical Society Unlocks New Grant Funding with a Neighbor History Project John Cass
How to Use Ishikawa Charts to Understand Your Ancestor’s Decisions Josiah Schmidt
The Silent Wedding That Filled a Burnley Church Karen - Your Family Stories
Class in Cookery: 2 August 1963 Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
Gone ‘opping Kelly Cornwell
State Census Record Clues Kristi McPherson-Burns
History Delivered Lisa Wiitala
1949: Hawaiian Confection Pie Lorinda Brandon
Ice Cream Comes Last Marian Beaman
Anselme Larrouy Charged with Blackmail MelRootsNWrites
Following the Paper Trail of a Galician Woman Through War, Displacement, and Immigration Michelle Chubenko, AG, AGL
Possibilites Michelle Rees
Ahnentafel #29: Hildur Agda Leander (1886-1945) Mightier Acorns
Eight Steps Later Nancy Gilbride Casey
When DNA Forgets: The Strange Science of Recombination and Segment Loss Nate Douglas
Dogs Running in Packs and Houses Floating Away Neil Sagebiel
John Back at Reedy Creek Nolene
A land so full of grapes Paige
Ask AI: “Describe the Life of the Samuel Vaux Family in Wisconsin in 1865” Randy Seaver, Geneaholic
Whose Pen Wrote Your Ancestor Down? Rhonda Mária Copher, PhD
Split by Chains, Bound by Blood Genealogy Just Ask - Robin
Stop collecting dates. Start counting the distance between them. I counted 82. Jenny Grouiller-Ruhland
The Root Was Deeper Than I Thought Sarina, The Family Historian
You Think You Can Swim Until the Current Proves Otherwise Shell Norman
Ep 7: As The Spirit Leads Stephanie Renée
100+ strategies for Family History Detectives to research and create stories about immigrant ancestors Rob Melton
She Was More Than a Single Story Crystal Lorimor
June journal: roaming our roots Meagan Francis
November 5, 1893 — Taken All Together, Friday is the Most Pleasant Day of the Week The Long Conversation
It’s All Hash Today Tim Grover
Generations Newsletter Washington D.C. FamilySearch
The Drunken Gardener, Part One Xanthe Hall
Thank you for the mention!
So glad I found your substack, Robin! You’re doing a great service for the genealogy community. I can’t imagine how much labor this is for you. Keep up the great work!