The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

Tales from Morning Reports: From Duty to Death by Dr. Mac on A Week of Genealogy

Easter Sunday, 100 Years Ago by Joy on Joy Neal Kidney

The 1933 Murder of Vito Rizzuto by Justin Cascio on Mafia Genealogy

Marie Levron (c1686-1727), Tragedy from Cradle to Grave – 52 Ancestors #443 by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy

Research Resources

The massive WWII database for the former USSR grows by another 4.6 million records by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family

Using Museum Collections by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy

Tech News

Genealogy Software Decoded on Genealogy Happy Hour by Amy Crabill Lay and Penny Burke Bonawitz

Testing Handwriting OCR for Genealogy: Transcribing Death Records with AI by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family

Google AI Studio for Beginners: Master the Basics of Google AI Studio by Ramesh Reddy on TechPP

Kanri Is a Free, Offline Alternative to Trello by Justin Pot on Lifehacker

Genetic Genealogy

Nice New Features at GEDmatch by Kitty on Kitty Cooper’s Blog

Methodology

What I Learned by Researching Mary Jane Sheridan by Nancy Gilbride Casey on Leaves on the Tree

Education Is for Everyone

How to write for real people (and not just the record) by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers

WWII: What Is a Genealogy Pack? by Linda Yip on Past Presence

Planning Like a Pro: How GPT-4o Helped Me Organize My Genealogy Research Trip by Brenda Leyndyke on Journey to the Past

Keeping Up with the Times

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