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I find Facebook is a great tool for connecting with fellow researchers.

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Oct 27, 2025 • Deborah Carl

Revisit Your Documents - They Might Hold the Key

May 26, 2025 • Jennifer Jones

Are Footnotes Necessary?

Jun 2, 2025 • Deborah Carl

The Genealogy Category on Substack

Jan 26 • Barbara at Projectkin

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I find Facebook is a great tool for connecting with fellow researchers.

Jun 15 • Deborah Carl

1717/18—The slash does not mean "or."

Jun 8 • Deborah Carl

Tip Roundup for 1 June 2026

If you're doing family research, you have experiences and knowledge worth sharing.

Jun 1 • Deborah Carl

Tips for New Substack Publication and PDF Features

Sometimes small changes happen and you don't hear about them unless you are listening carefully or in the habit of playing around with your settings

May 25 • Jane Chapman

What Was My Ancestor's Surname?

Misspellings, phonetic spellings, Anglicized spellings, or something totally unrelated—sometimes you'd never guess the surname your ancestor used.

May 18

The Library of Congress Periodicals

What can you find?

May 11 • Deborah Carl

Tip Roundup for 4 May 2026

If you're doing family research, you have experiences and knowledge worth sharing.

May 4 • Deborah Carl

Substack Articles: Crafting the Details

The platform has continued to refine many of the professional fit and finish that makes publishing here so fun. Don't overlook the creative flair…

Apr 27 • Barbara at Projectkin

It Started with a Name

Using FAN to identify the Abner Greenleaf who was an original proprietor of Campton, Grafton, New Hampshire

Apr 20 • Deborah Carl

4 Tips for Using New Substack Features

Here's how they might be useful to you in your family history work as a genealogy blogger.

Apr 13 • Barbara at Projectkin

Tip Roundup for 6 April 2026

If you're doing family research, you have experiences and knowledge worth sharing.

Apr 6 • Deborah Carl

Ordering Vital Records

Try ordering from the town or county instead of the state.

Mar 30 • Deborah Carl

Mission: Genealogy

Mission: Genealogy

We're here to help welcome everyone to the warm and generous community of genealogists and family historians on Substack. We are free and platform-independent. Join us!

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Get the Most out of Mission: Genealogy — Changes to Gatherings, Newsletters & Archives

We're here to help and support each other, we have a few ideas for ways to help each other in our genealogy research and family history storytelling.

Nov 1, 2025 • Barbara at Projectkin and Deborah Carl

Focused on Family History, too? Join us in the Mission:Genealogy “clubhouse”

Our ancestry spans the globe, and we share both a language and a fascination with Genealogy. Did you know we have a clubhouse to share, too? Here's an…

Apr 30, 2025 • Barbara at Projectkin

Why Substack for a Family History Community?

We're cheerleaders for family history research and storytelling—not for platforms. Here's why we've chosen to build our community on Substack. We want…

Aug 6, 2024 • Barbara Tien and Robin Stewart

Mission Genealogy Podcast

25:05

Saphyre, Family Roots

Dec 30, 2024 • Robin Stewart

23:57

Emma Cox, Journeys into Genealogy

Nov 7, 2024 • Robin Stewart and Emma - Journeys into Genealogy

1:00:39

Dr. Mary Marshall

Oct 21, 2024 • Robin Stewart

15:21

Dean Kirby, Manchester History Club

Oct 5, 2024 • Robin Stewart and Dean Kirby

18:33

The Mission: Genealogy Community on Substack

Episode 1 with Robin Stewart with Barbara Tien

Aug 3, 2024 • Robin Stewart and Barbara Tien

22:01

Kirsi Dahl of Stories from the Tree

Aug 2, 2024 • Robin Stewart and Kirsi Dahl

28:24

Barbara May of Heritage Hunters

Aug 1, 2024 • Robin Stewart and Barbara Jean May

Focused on Family History, too? Join us in the Mission:Genealogy “clubhouse”