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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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Stacked Between the Leaves
Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack
Stacked this Week (15 Stacked)
EduStack (2 Stacked)
BookStack (2 Stacked)
Video Presentations (10 Stacked)
Podcast (13 Stacked)
Additional This Week (44 Stacked)
Genealogy and Family History Blogs and Newsletters Published this Week
Kristin Rapinac Alicia M Prater Paul Chiddicks Denyse Allen Barbara at Projectkin Aryn Youngless Lori Olson White Deborah Carl Dr. Mary M. Marshall Julie Dove Lisa Maguire Anne Wendel JenealogyScrapbook
GenStack Updates
📚BookStack
Crowd-sourced Book Suggestions for anyone interested in Genealogy and Family History.
Momentum isn’t built by waiting for the perfect day. It’s built by choosing one small, purposeful action today—and letting consistency do the heavy lifting.
The GenStack Coterie - Growth Experience 2026
Growth Experience 2026
Registration is Open!
Genealogy and family history content creators: you don’t need more pressure—you need a plan you can actually follow.
If 2026 is calling you to show up with more clarity, confidence, and consistency, the GenStack Coterie Growth Experience is your January starting line.
This is a guided kickoff designed to help you:
Get clear on what you’re building as a creator
Stop spinning in “someday” mode
Build a simple, supportive system so your work keeps moving forward
Part 1: Growing as a Family History Content Creator is a free live interactive webinar to help you start the year with direction and momentum. - January 16, 2026.
If you want to turn that clarity into a working system, Part 2: Creating Growth is the members-only workshop where you’ll build your 2026 Playbook in Notion, so your plan supports you without draining you. - January 17, 2026
A steadier creative year is possible. Let’s start it well.
💛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. 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.
Christmas Traditions Emma
Winter schoolhouses Misty Hamilton Smith - Author
Whatever Happened to Katie? Bryan Demchinsky
Just Added: New Content You’ll Love Cheryl Rutledge-Brennecke
Irma Virginia Neblett Stewart, 1894 - 1927 Carol
When Ancestors Vanish: Researching Unclaimed Deaths, County Burials, and Public Administrator Estates Steve Johnson
Golden Hair, Blue Eyes David Fernley
Merry Christmas from the Manchester History Club Dean Kirby
A career cut short Dr Nell Darby
Ending the Year with Intention, Not Pressure Family History Hound Notebook
The Way You Decorate Says a Lot About You (Your Christmas Tree is No Exception) Flora M Brown
Writing Welsh Family History & a Thank You GenealCymru
Butter Paddle, Death Informants, The Whole Page, Pearl Harbor Day Thoughts, Unknown,My Ancestry Index Correction, Upcoming Genealogy Tip of the Day
From Pennsylvania to Plantagenets: A Case Study Genera Genealogical Services
Sweet Calzoncelli with Chickpeas, Chocolate, and Spices Giovanna Solimando
Swiss Settlements in South Carolina
Jeannette Holland Austin
Facing Denial Jenny Hawran
Swedish customs of Santa Lucia Day Jill Swenson
Christmas From Childhood to Seniorhood Joan Stommen
Where Do I Begin? A Gentle Way Into Your Story Karen Ray
Childhood show-and-tell Katherine Brodt
Class in Cookery: 11 May 1951 Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
From Battlefields to Family Tables: Heirlooms of the Heart Our Growing Family Tree
Features of an Old House, Part One Origins by Hearth & History
Emma #207: May-June 1944 Linda Hoopes
1949: Mince Pecan Cake Lorinda Brandon
Teenage Aunt Ruthie’s Diary with Outbursts at Christmas time Marian Beaman
The Last of the Milton Township Diaspora Mightier Acorns
Grandma Gilbride’s Date & Nut Bread Nancy Gilbride Casey
A Child Nobody Claimed Nate Douglas
Louisville Braces for Record-Setting Flood Neil Sagebiel
Montezuma’s Revenge Tested Me In Manzanilla, Mexico Ollie - ifOnlyi...
Uncle Paul’s Bowling Ball Paul Hawthorne
Stanly County, North Carolina, One Place Study Paula Collins
Ask AI: “Please Describe Severt Leland’s Life in 1920 in San Francisco, California” Randy Seaver, Geneaholic
Grandpa was a Gangster Rita McConnell
facts of life: A few stories about dad Rob Melton
A Genealogist’s Guide to County and Parish History Genealogy Just Ask - Robin
Here We Go: More Getting Ready for Rootstech 2026 Kyla Bayang
What Do You Need to Get Through the Holiday? Shell Norman
From Bunker Hill to California: A family’s trajectory through some tough American decades Tiffini Theisen
The Turbulent Life of Grandmother Lucinda Tim Grover
On My Grandmother’s Birthday: An Ordinary Life, an Extraordinary Time Winkler and Mucha Family Tree
The Footprints in the Snow Dominus Owen Markham
Thanks as usual Robin!! Holiday chaos is settling down and I can sit back with a cup of tea and catch up!+
Wow! What a huge list of resources you have gathered. Thanks for taking time to do that and thanks for including me.