NOTE: No special post or celebration, but today is Empty Branches on the Family Tree’s 12th blogiversary! The years have flown and I love blogging. Thank you to all my readers.

The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

Beaumont-Hamel: A Fragment Returned by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree

Beyond the Barbed Wire: What Stephen Marcisak’s POW Journal Reveals About Survival by Kirsten M. Max-Douglas on Our Growing Family Tree

We Don’t Believe You by Deborah Carl on Your Family Quest

Research Resources

Looking for Death Records? Try City Directories! by Joe Smaldone on Vita Brevis

Now Live: 4 Major U.K. and Ireland Collections — Passenger Lists and Nonconformist Vital Records by Esther on MyHeritage Blog

Tech News

Ancestry.com Has a New Full-Text Search and Transcription Feature by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Genetic Genealogy

My Fastest Father Find Ever by Kitty on Kitty Cooper’s Blog

Does Your DNA Control Your Traits? by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree

Methodology

Always Check the Originals: A Case Study on Why You Need to Go Further Than the Index by Lex Knowlton on Knext Gen Genealogy

Which Elizabeth Beake…Part 6 – a challenging case…. by Teresa on Writing My Past

Debunking a Family Myth and I Finally Know the Source by Alicia M. Prater on GenTales

Education Is for Everyone

Would You Animate Your Ancestor’s Photos? What Genealogists Really Think About AI by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family

Add an Alert Note to FamilySearch to Connect with Future Researchers by Nancy Gilbride Casey on Leaves on the Tree

Family History is the Stories of Our Families by Lisa S. Gorrell on My Trails into the Past

Keeping Up with the Times

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