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Every newsletter from Storyline Genealogy, archived here. Quarterly updates on new research, case studies, documentary biographies, and site additions—from County Monaghan to the fur trade West. Missed an issue? Every issue lives here.
Autumn 2026
One Year In: Where the Research Has Taken Us
A reflection on Storyline Genealogy's first year, and what's new since spring
A look back at the first year of moving From Research to Story, and a tour of what has grown since spring: three new hubs (Women & Legal Agency in New France, Research Methodology, and French Prairie), the new Voyageur Register, the recovery of Petrona "Tonang" Quimpo, and our first case studies from Scotland.
Read This Issue →Spring 2026
The Website Has Grown With the Research
Six new specialized collections, three research libraries, and an expanded site structure
The website has expanded because the research has expanded. Six new specialized collections—Sacred Places, The Pays d'en Haut, At the Lake of Two Mountains, From Oka to Oregon, Filles du Roi, and the Carignan-Salières Regiment—plus three research libraries for Methodology, DNA Analysis, and Photo Mysteries.
Read This Issue →December 23, 2025
Hidden Bonds: The O'Brien Family of Jamaica, Queens
A documentary biography series tracing a thousand years—from Brian Boru to a DNA reunion 150 years in the making
Published in memory of Barbara Ann O'Brien Hamall. The announcement of Hidden Bonds: eight episodes, a prologue, a County Clare companion piece, and the epilogue that proved what paper records never could.
Read This Issue →December 19, 2025
The Philippine Research Collection
Wartime heroes, colonial land builders, and a cracked graduation portrait
An introduction to Storyline Genealogy's Philippine research focus—featuring Mamerto Morales and Agtawagon Hill, the damaged graduation portrait that solved a WWII family mystery, and Captain Lucas Gonzales's land-building legacy.
Read This Issue →December 1, 2025
Scattered Stones: The Robertson Family of Blairgowrie
A documentary biography series, complete at last
The inaugural newsletter announcing the completion of Scattered Stones—eight episodes tracing the Robertson family across two centuries and two continents, from a Scottish weaver still at his loom at 81 to a grandmother in New Jersey surrounded by nineteen grandchildren.
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