The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

The First Bathtub in Dexter, Iowa by Joy on Joy Neal Kidney

The Case of Pegge: Tracing Enslaved People in New England Archives by Sulaiman Jamil

Retracing Steps in Berlin by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog

The Wreck of Walter L. Main’s Circus Train, Part 1 by Lori Olson White on The Lost & Found Story Box

What Was Important to Mom: The Last Roll of Film by Nancy Gilbride Casey on Leave on the Tree

Lifting the Mius and Guidry Men Out of the Shadows: The Gallows Didn’t Win – 52 Ancestors #483 by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy

Research Resources

AI Transcribes Almost 24 Million Russian Archive Record Pages for Free Searching by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family

SF Public Library Launches Massive, Historical Platform Free to Public by Debbie Mascot on California Genealogical Society Blog

Deathindexes dot com Updates by Paula on Paula Stuart-Warren

Tech News

Testing ChatGPT Work: Can It Build a Genealogy Research Workbook, Using AI? by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family

I Let ChatGPT Sign Into My Web Accounts for Me, and It Was More Trouble Than It’s Worth by David Nield on Lifehacker

Genetic Genealogy

Where Do Clusters Fit? by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology

Methodology

Could This Be my 3rd Great-Grandfather, David, Bestowed Upon Presley Nelms Jr. by Presley Nelms Sr.? by Robin on Genealogy Just Ask

No Marriage Record, No Problem: Proving the Marriage of John Dawson and Elizabeth “Betsy” Cessna by Diana Elder on Family Locket

Education Is for Everyone

The LOC Veterans History Project, Part 1: Getting Ready AND The LOC Veterans History Project, Part 2: Plan and Practice the Interview, both by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree

Understanding FamilySearch.org’s User-Owned Trees by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star

The AI Brief for Family Historians: September 2026 by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers

Privacy and Online Family History by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star

Keeping Up with the Times

Announcing the AATP 2026 Pacific Edition lineup. It’s “All About That Place” LIVE! by Barbara Tien on ProjectKin