The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

The Whiskey, the Gun, …and the bastard’s claim, or…  “Dear Hannah’s Hooch”  by Jeff Record on The Last Aha

The Family Historian by Lucy H. Anglin on Genealogy Ensemble

The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 by Aryn Youngless on Genealogy by Aryn

Research Resources

Vast scanning project adds WWII newspapers to its searchable database by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family

Dutch Genealogy News – June 2025 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy

Researching Masonic Ancestors by Nancy Maxwell on Grapevine Public Library Genealogy & Local History Blog

Tech News

Three Ways to Remove AI from Google by Jake Peterson on Lifehacker

FamilySearch Full-Text Search … and other AI processes for reading old handwritten documents by Wayne Shepheard on Discover Genealogy

Genetic Genealogy

My AncestryDNA Clusters Are Limited At This Time by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Methodology

The Summer of My Genealogical Discontent, Lesson 2: Cousin Trust, or Not! by Lori on Genealogy at Heart

All Those Addresses by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name

Education Is for Everyone

Lesson 1 – Introduction to Quebec Genealogy by Nico Lefrancois on Généalogie et Histoire du Québec

US Census Instructions by Michael John Neill on Genealogy Tip of the Day

1880 Mortality-Back of the Page by Michael John Neill on Genealogy tip of the Day

Keeping Up with the Times

Always be aware of the terms of service:
Is WeTransfer Using Your Content to Train Its AI? by Jake Peterson on Lifehacker