The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

Popsie’s Later Life by Xanthe Hall on X-Factored – Family Stories

The Pittsburgh Underground Railroad – Setting the Scene by Jim on Jim the Historian

Amos Gorrell’s Land Platted on a Map by Lisa S. Gorrell on My Trails into the Past

A ‘Scotsman’ Born in France – on the Trail of a Family Mystery by Nick Thorne on The Nosey Genealogist’s: Help Me with My Family Tree

Research Resources

FamilySearch Fills Up Searchable Databases with More Than 100 million Ukrainian Records by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family

Nova Scotia Historical Reviews Available Online by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte

Protestant Website in Germany Advances by James Beidler on Roots & Branches

The 1926 Irish Census: A New Window into Ireland’s Past by Daniel Luftus on FamilyWise LTD

Finding Your Ancestral Town: Your Go-To Resource by Michelle Chubenko on Have Questions? Get Answers for Research in Galicia

Tech News

AI and Genealogy – Brick Walls, Breakthroughs and Blunders by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy

Ancestry Hints Update: My Notes Are Back! by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name

Genetic Genealogy

Collaboration by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology

Success with Small Segments by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology

When an AI Search Leads to a New Genealogy Source by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy

Methodology

Maria Jane Darragh’s Illness: Researching Acute Mania in 19th Century Ontario by Nancy Gilbride Casey on Leaves on the Tree

Genealogy Case Study: Using the FAN Method by Lex Knowlton on Knext Gen Genealogy

James SIMMS of Blount County: Not a Son of James SIMS of Pittsylvania by Cathy Meder-Dempsey on Opening Doors in Brick Walls

Education Is for Everyone

Gone to Texas: Tracing the Appalachian Families Who Left the Mountains for the Plains by Misty Hamilton Smith on Appalachian Genealogy & History

Law Enforcement Historical Societies and Museums by Paula Stuart-Warren on Genealogy by Paula

Changing Collections? by Michael John Neill on Genealogy Tip of the Day

RLP 419: What Genealogists Are Saying About AI Transcription of Foreign-Language Documents by Nicole Elder Dyer on Family Locket

Genealogy Preservation by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy

Fix These Genealogy Errors Before They Multiply by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on fortify Your Family Tree

Keeping Up with the Times

Are you related?”
“Orphan” Photos by Eilene Lyon on Myricopia

What made the National Archives of Ireland take down its genealogy records platform? by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES