The best Family History Finds this week:
Family Stories
The Couldery Family by Xanthe Hall on X-Factored – Family Stories
A Spot on the Map: Four Brooklyn Neighborhoods by Kirsten M. Max-Douglas on Our Growing Family Tree
That Needle in Grandma’s Hand by Joy on Joy Neal Kidney
Jane’s Illness: What Did Community & Church Offer? by Nancy Gilbride Casey on Leaves on the Tree
Laid to Rest: Whitefield, Part I by Patrick Lacroix on Query the Past
Time Travelling in Spitalfields: the Huguenots by Janice Heppenstall on English Ancestors
Research Resources
Part Two: What Scotland’s Regional Divide Actually Does to Your Records by Chris on Scottish Genealogist
Who Came to Say Goodbye by Lynda Heines on Heines Sight
Postcards in Your Family by Maureen Taylor on The Photo Detective News
RootsIreland.ie Discount by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections
How Road Petitions Can Reveal Your Ancestor’s Neighborhood on
Ancestral Findings
Tech News
Three Reasons You Shouldn’t Use Your Browser’s Password Manager (and What to Use Instead) by Emily Long on Lifehacker
OpenAI Just Launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, and Here’s How It Compares to Google’s Nano Banana 2 by David Nield on Lifehacker
Genetic Genealogy
The Unbroken Line by Jenny Mackay on Jenealogy Scrapbook of Family History Stories
What is a Quick-and-Dirty Tree, and When Might I Need One? by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
Methodology
How to Find Your Ancestor’s Place of Origin by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree
A potential family for Mary Page… by Teresa on Writing My Past
Three Names, Two Households: What Naming Patterns Can and Cannot Prove by Diana Elder on Family Locket
Revisiting My Roots: Filling the Gaps by Cari Taplin on Genealogy Pants
Education Is for Everyone
The LOC Veterans History Project, Part 3: Recording the Interview AND The LOC Veterans History Project, Part 4: Paperwork, both by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree
New Series – Postcards from the Past by Alicia M. Prater on GenTales
The Pee Dee Quaker Network: A Forgotten Corridor of Faith by Robin on Genealogy Just Ask
GPC eBook Library: 800+ Genealogy Books at Your Fingertips by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name
10 Ways to Survive Using the FamilySearch.org Website by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star
The Corridor That Carried Them by Robin on Genealogy Just Ask
Keeping Up with the Times
Convert your files now!
Microsoft Publisher Is Retiring: My Last-Minute Family History File Rescue by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family
US Copyright Law vs. AI by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star
Is AI Trying to Kill Me? by Paul Chiddicks on Stories Behind the Records