Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Late Loyalists and the Myth of One-Way Migration by Kathryn Lake Hogan on Looking4Ancestors.
ScotlandsPeople adds dissenting prebyterian church session records and Recent National Library of Scotland mapping updates by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
FamilySearch’s Limited-Access Toggle: A New Research Tool by Diana Bryan Quinn on Moments in Time.
Don’t ignore online repository hints…assess them… by Teresa Basinska Eckford on Writing my past.
A Day Makes A Difference | Ancestry’s New Record Viewer Layout by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.
Making Sense of Historical Documents with AI by Alice Childs on GenealogyNow.
All About AI – What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It Matters by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Using AI to Transcribe Records of Enslaved People by Heidi Buck on The Technical Genealogist.
AI in Genealogy Beyond Research: How I Create Speaking Invites in Seconds by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family.
The Reinvented 23andme by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper’s Blog.
Articles
What Happens When ‘Finding Your Roots’ Uncovers a Famous Family Secret Too Big to Air? by Brande Victorian, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles, California.
101 Best Genealogy Websites of 2026, Family Tree Magazine, Dublin, New Hampshire.
Inspiring emigrant letters home to Ireland from America in the Famine era by Matt Keough, IrishCentral, New York, New York.
For more gems like these throughout the week, join the Genealogy à la carte Facebook group. When you submit your request to join, you will be asked to answer two quick questions about your family history research.
