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Once a month, I will highlight books you’ve suggested we read and think others might enjoy too. It could be a family history, a memoir, or about genealogy.
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Stacked Between the Leaves
Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack
Stacked this Week (38 Stacked)
Storyteller Tuesday Posts (4 Stacked)
June Book Stack ( 6 Stacked)
Video Presentations (18 Stacked)
Podcast (7 Stacked)
Additional This Week (37 Stacked)
Genealogy and Family History Blogs and Newsletters Published this Week
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.
Last week for Storyteller Tuesday…
Your challenge, OCCUPATIONAL ODDITY was accepted by the following authors, who tell great stories. Check them out here:
This week for Storyteller Tuesday, the challenge is BRICK BUSTER:
June Book Stack
MY EUROPEAN FAMILY THE FIRST 54,000 YEARS
by Karin Bojs
A scientist traces her genealogy and then keeps going 54,000 more years. Fascinating! ~
MANY PATHS: DISCOVERING FAMILY HISTORIES
by Rochester Genealogical Society
“This is the first book from the Rochester Genealogical Society. It's a collection of 13 essays by the society's writers' group members. The first few are stories of the writers' process of finding their family histories. The others are more detailed family histories. Each story has interesting points of view.” ~
AMERICAN NATIONS
by Colin Woodard
“I'd recommend this to any American (and possibly Canadian) exploring family history. It's a fascinating view of migration patterns and how they've affected local cultures from Yankee New England to the Left Coast. I discovered it through Kahlil Green's references to it here on Substack. Having never lived where my ancestors lived, I found it a fascinating view into regional differences and a clearer appreciation for the Yankee values they tried to instill in their adopted homes in the midwest.” ~
KING OF THE CONFESSORS
by Thomas P. F. Hoving
“Mr. Hoving pursued a beautiful art object, the Bury St. Edmonds Cross, and encountered a character who could have been a model for a James Bond villain. It is an engrossing story, wonderfully written.” ~
THE QUEST FOR ANNIE MOORE OF ELLIS ISLAND
By
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MY FATHER’S DAUGHTER
By
I read My Father’s Daughter by Shell Norman this week. I highly recommend this beautiful memoir. It speaks to all the facets of family, relationships and the history that creates the chemistry of identity. ~ Robin Stewart
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Beyond the Last Chapter: The Journey of Edouard Gravel, WWII Canadian Forestry Corps Soldier (Part 1)
I Miss the Smell of a Cigarette
The Quest to Find the Past
A town is born
How to Fact-Check Online Family Trees
How a Launton Veterinary Surgeon Restored an Antique Horse-Drawn Vehicle
The Meander #2: Step across the Irwell into Salford's old Chapel Street
Tie Me Up, Write it Out
No More Copies, Funny Ms, Newspaper Editions, Which Relatives?, Who to Write About, Multiple Page Numbers, Injuries, Closest Relatives, Correcting Tombstones, Everything
The InnKeeper’s Wife
S1, E2: Scattered Seeds: The Sarah Cawood Story
The Truth Behind June 19, 1865: What Hari Jones Wanted Us to Know
Emma #181: January 1942
Estimating Birth and Marriage Dates
Foot Steps
Tending the Spark
Family Reunions & Connections: Poetry That Brings Us Home
Dora Iwarnie Goodwin Darden, 1889 - 1925
Great Moments in Compiled Genealogies #2
New this Week: 16 June 2025
Charles Albertson, Danish Immigrant to Galveston and a Witness to Juneteenth
The Miracle Morning for Genealogists: A Daily Ritual to Power Up Your Passion
What We Gave Each Other
Aunt Ruthie's HOT, HOT! Diary
HMS Buffalo’s only Murderess: Georgian Convict, Janet Stewart
ABC Biography of Devier James Lamphier Smith (1839-1894)
From sea to air
Stories Waiting to Be Found: Join Our Historical Newspaper Indexing & Discovery Project
The Kidderminster election scandal
A Walk Through History: The “Greek Circle” at Woodlawn Cemetery
Have you digitized your photos?
My Father: Harry Stephen Archer
Issue Number One Hundred!
Dad’s Legacy
A Father's Echo 2025-5
My Newest Collection at Internet Archive
Ernest Albert Fichtner(Part 3)
Thank you Robin, for the mention and for putting this together for all of us! Great things to check out.
I look so forward to these compilations. Thank you for the mention.