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Genealogy Matters Magazine
launches August 10, 2026
In just a few weeks, we’ll launch Genealogy Matters Magazine — Volume 1, Issue 1, a new digital magazine dedicated to narrative genealogy and family history storytelling.
The magazine grew out of the Genealogy Matters and GenStack community and begins with one question: Where do family history stories go to last? It exists to give carefully researched family history writing a lasting home that is edited, designed, citable, archivable, and worth keeping.
Our inaugural issue will bring together narrative genealogy, family history essays, research stories, and practical craft guidance for people who want to move beyond charts and documents into meaningful, well-told family history.
The first issue will publish on August 10, 2026 in digital flipbook form, offering readers an easy, beautiful, magazine-like way to read and share it.
At its heart, Genealogy Matters Magazine is about family history transformed into story and preserved as record.
If you care about genealogy, storytelling, preservation, and the human lives behind the records, I hope you’ll follow along and help us welcome Genealogy Matters Magazine into the world.
If you’re a Paid Subscriber to Genealogy Matters, you’ll receive a copy of the magazine delivered right to your inbox on August 10th.
If you’re not a Paid Subscriber, and would like to get your subscription early, visit genealogymattersmagazine.com.
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
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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 current Call for Submissions is now OPEN!
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.
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
Exodus Xanthe Hall
From My Research Desk Emma (Deep Roots Genealogy)
Breaking the Line: Margaret Corbin, Military wife and “Molly Pitcher” Homefront Archives
I Became That Person Who Chases Down Census Records Annette Gendler
William Logan of Knox County, Kentucky (c. 1765–1824): What the records and the DNA Actually Prove Misty Hamilton Smith
Freedman’s Village: America’s First Planned Black Community Wilma Jones
A one-place study in 2500 words Bee Lilyjones
Beyond the Obvious Record Carol Kostakos Petranek
The Shape of Silence Carole McCulloch
What’s Actually Inside ScotlandsPeople — And Why Scottish Records Embarrass Everyone Else’s Chris | Scottish Genealogist
Buried Threads Season 2 Episode 12: Hanging Threads - DNA Match CShiels Angie Hansen
A Girl from Norcatur Cyn Harris
Welsh Family History Stories & FREE Talk GenealCymru
Hidden faces, a sacred knot, and a 1682 Franconian marriage Daniel Winkler
What My Husband Discovered About His Cousin Using AI - Part 2 Deborah Carl
First Day of Camp Deborah Sweeney
The four ways people write about their ancestors (and the one that John used) Denyse Allen
35,000 words no one will ever read Diane Wahn Shotton
The Singing Detective Dr Nell Darby
Yesterday Made It All Worthwhile Family History Hound Notebook
The Faux Pas That Gave Me Pause Flora M Brown
The People in My Grandmother’s House Fran Davis
How to Audit a Family Tree for AI-Fabricated Sources Genera Genealogical Services
49.The Early 1930’s Geoffrey Marx
And Yet There Are Those Who Love It Hans Klose
The Origin of the Scotch-Irish in the Northern Neck of Virginia Jeannette Holland Austin
Road tripping across northern Minnesota Jill Swenson
August 2026 WWII Research Classes Jennifer Holik
Rebuilding Monticello, New York John Cass
The Rockingham, the Leeders and My Mum’s Historial Novel Karen - Your Family Stories
Not-so-silent influences Katherine Brodt
5 Records Every Genealogist Should Start with Kevin Ferguson
AncestryDNA Updates Their Relationship Predictions Leah Larkin
Genealogy Case Study: Using the FAN Method Lex Knowlton
Emma #233: January-February 1948 Linda Hoopes
Reviewing an Old Document Often Reveals New Clues Lisa Gorrell
How I Turned Gemini into my Research Co-Pilot in 19th Century Genealogy Lisa Rex
1949: Mount Vernon Dessert Lorinda Brandon
022 WWII Letters Chapter Twenty-Two: More Barbed Wire Around Heart Mountain MamaCarole
When Gemini Led Me to a New Genealogy Source Marcia Philbrick
Reflecting on My DNA Results after 12 years MelRootsNWrites
Finding Your Ancestral Town: Your Go-To Resource Michelle Chubenko, AG, AGL
A Source I Want to Understand Better Michelle Rees
News from Montgomery History - Sween Library Closing Temporarily MoCo MD Genealogical Society
Kuchnia Polska Mya Padmore Marziano
Maria Jane Darragh’s Illness Nancy Gilbride Casey
The Map Is Getting Dangerous Nate Douglas
Learning the Boundaries Nolene
Life Memoir of Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) of Somerset, New York, Wisconsin, Missouri and Kansas Randy Seaver, Geneaholic
The Card Arrived Before Belonging Did Red River, White Earth
John D. Zimmerman: From Frontier Craftsman to Statewide Abolitionist Strategist (1843–1847) Genealogy Just Ask - Robin
Before Time Edits the Story Robin Grunder
The introduction that keeps changing. Jenny Grouiller-Ruhland
I Get to Interview One of My Favorites... Kyla Bayang
Why Victorian Medicine Could Be as Frightening as the Illness Itself Ruth Imeson's Fragile Archive
Another Song Shannon Thomas
Some Stories Surface Unexpectedly Shell Norman
The quilting of Isabella Lawrence McDonald Rob Melton
Poking Holes in Centuries of Publications: Part 2 Tanner P. Sousley
Per Mundum : The Newsletter of The Clay of England Society The Clay of England Society
Early December, 1893 — Morris Returns to a Godforsaken Town Molly Kimball
What Can Census Records Tell You? More Than You Might Think Kristy Larsen
The Unforgettable: Using the Witness in Irish Birth Registration to Further Your Research Briggeman Genealogy
Who Was St. Clair Kelly? Crystal Lorimor
Thank for the mention, Robin Stewart!
Thanks for the mention ❤️