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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.
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.
The official record was never designed to hold the lives of ordinary people. The archive will not complete itself.
The stories are in your hands. The records that will never be found in the official history and the knowledge that exists about your family history, right now, is held by you.
That is the traction that builds alongside the collecting of research, records and family lore. The recognition that what you are holding is fragile, and that whether it survives depends entirely on what you do next.
That is where stewardship begins.
Stewardship Matters gives family historians the tools to make the shift from private knowledge to public record. In this guide, you will learn how to:
Write your family’s stories one scene at a time, anchored to evidence, so that a future researcher meets the person behind the name.
Create Collections from your existing published articles and blog posts.
Build unshakeable credibility by being transparent about what the record says, what you inferred from it, and where imagination filled in the gaps.
Publish and place your work so that a descendant you will never meet can type a name into a search bar fifty years from now and find what you left there.
The stories survive only if someone decides to carry them.
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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.
Genealogy Matters Magazine is here — and there are several ways to be part of it.
If you have been following along, you already know the magazine exists to do something important: give family history stories a permanent, citable, archivable home. A place where the work our community puts into uncovering the past can last.
Here is how you can be involved.
Submit Your Work
We are currently open for submissions for Issues 1 through 3 (August, September, and October 2026), and we would love to publish your work.
We accept three types of pieces:
Feature Stories — the lead narrative for an issue; longer, deeply researched, original work. Fee: $75.
Family Stories — ancestor profiles, migration stories, discovery moments. Substack reprints are welcome. Fee: $25.
Storyteller’s Craft Articles — original pieces on writing, publishing, or preserving family history. Fee: $50.
All contributors receive payment upon publication, a byline and bio, and a 6-month complimentary digital subscription to the magazine.
First Round Submission deadline: June 10, 2026.
Second Round Submission deadline: August 10, 2026.
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
Books on Genealogy & Family History
Genealogy and Family History Videos Published this Week
Genealogy and Family History Podcasts Published This Week
The Many Lives of William Richard Taylor Emma
A Victorian asylum Alison Baxter
100 Days Men: A memorial of Eugene Place An American Genealogy
Where the Bluegrass Faded and the Forest Began: The Swiss of Bernstadt and the Appalachian Record Trail Misty Hamilton Smith
Edith Alice January (1899 - 1998) & Olive Joan Beadle (1914 - 2010) Barry Reese
Your Bicentennial Memories Are Here: The Ones Who Didn’t Come Home Denyse Allen
The tombstone that misled Carmel’s Corner
Edmund Ronald Vedro, 1947 - 1967 Carol
From the Archive: Ever’s Sorrifil Year by Alice Meredith Opie; Penge, Surrey, England, 1897 Carol MacKay
From Research Notes to Hero Image: Carole McCulloch
The Woman Who Became Wilma CShiels Angie Hansen
The Bronx in Transition (2436 Walton Avenue, Bronx) Daniel Winkler
Sherman Scofield’s Progeny Deborah Sweeney
State of Maryland: What Do We Do With the Dead? Diane Wahn Shotton
The Kitchen Was Always the Classroom Dominus Owen Markham
Further exploits of Thomas Jones, PI Dr Nell Darby
My Mysterious Father with Hugh O’Neill Emma - Journeys into Genealogy
The Greatest Tragedy in Life is to be Forgotten in Death Eric Hunt
Does Your DNA Actually Measure Up? Family History Hound Notebook
A City of Sorrow, a Voice of Fire — Edith Franklin Wyatt & the Eastland Natalie Zett
What He Kept Fran Davis
The Borg, Stones Weather, Brick Wall Keys, A Will Omission, a 1910 Birth Certificate, Lies and More Lies Genealogy Tip of the Day
What Is Hidden In Plain Sight in U.S. Census Records Genera Genealogical Services
46. First Signs Geoffrey Marx
Sagne Torte: the Beautifully Imperfect Apulian Pasta, Gently Twisted by Hand Giovanna Solimando
Purpose - May 26, 2026 Hans Klose
The Telegram Came in Two Weeks. The Truth Took a Year. Nikki | Hot Flashes Hot Takes
Bermuda Hundred continued ... Jeannette Holland Austin
Reading Between the Lines: A Five-Part Guide to Historical Newspapers Jen Baldwin
Healing the Generational Wounds of War Jennifer Holik
More from Chapter 1, The Land of Everlasting Sky Jill Swenson
Robert George Pallister (1841-1907) Karen Holden
Class in Cookery: 27 September 1946 Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
Emma #227: June 1947 Linda Hoopes
Six orphans, three guardians — but who actually raised them? Lisa Rex
1949: Banquet Layer Cake Lorinda Brandon
Mom and the Hidden Dollar Bill Marian Beaman
Triple Cousin, Lifelong Teacher: The Legacy of Oscar Roy Ashley Marie Cooke Beckman
The Enumerator’s Errors Michael Lee Stills
A Name with a Meaning Michelle Rees
Ahnentafel #27: Esther Anna Thompson (1908-1988) Mightier Acorns
Four Husbands, One Discharge Paper, and a Child Who Vanished from the Records MoCo MD Genealogical Society
Stepping Aboard a Famine Ship Nancy Gilbride Casey
Forensic Anthropology of Silence Nate Douglas
Flood Denial: ‘Daddy Didn’t Believe’ Neil Sagebiel
The Last Record of Geoffrey Keating Nolene
Of The Wings of My Grandfather Paige
Life Memoir of Rudolf Spangler (1738-1811) of York, Pennsylvania in 1810 Randy Seaver, Geneaholic
The Headstones I Couldn’t Find Red River, White Earth
The RideAlong Hits the Trail - Again! Kyla Bayang
Curated Sandra Barker
Close Reading as Research: What Keyword Search Can’t Find Savanna King
Farmer to Capitalist: Alden family sails rough seas to stake claim in California, start new life Rob Melton
Occupations from the 1870 Census Crystal Lorimor
Cathedrals, poutine & tea: a mother-daughter road trip across Quebec Meagan Francis
October 29, 1893 — Ethel Goes to Church After All The Long Conversation
I appreciate the link to my Substack! @Marianbeaman
Thanks for the mention ❤️