CARNIVAL OF GENEALOGY: "WiNG-NUTS MOURN GENEABLOG'S PASSING"

This is a post for the Carnival of Genealogy and the topic this time is:

".....Your Genealogy Blog's Obituary. If your blog ended or was
lost/deleted today, how would you write it's obituary? What
were the highlights of your blog? What is its history? This t
heme was suggested by Schelly Talalay Dardashti of
Tracing the Tribe who will be hosting this next edition of
the COG. "

So....here goes:



"It's my sad duty to report the passing of my blog, "West in New England", or as
I had come to privately think of it, "WiNG". WiNG was a comparatively young
blog, not having as yet reached it's third birthday and only having 607 posts
under it's belt, but it had a good run. If one might use an analogy, in the
pack of geneablogs, it was the young and enthusiastic blog that darted about
excitedly sniffing out stories of ancestors to share with others much as a young
pup will proudly lay some unearthed bone at the feet of others to share the
beauty of his find. Of late, WiNG had had incredible success in discovering
quite a bit of information on the fertile grounds of GoogleBooks which
provided material for most of the blog entries for this past year.

What brought WiNG the most satisfaction and enjoyment was being able to share
these stories with his immediate family and with those distant relatives with whom
he shared ancestry and whom he'd might never have known about other wise.

Rumor has it that a secret society of devotees known as WiNG-nuts are decrying
the early demise of WiNG and some claim it's not dead but merely the victim of
a vast conspiracy of town hall clerks.

But whatever the case, we bid farewell to "West in New England" with a softly
murmured "Well done, o good and faithful geneablog..."


NOT!!!

The blog is not dead. But I couldn't find a way to write this in a serious manner, so
I got a little goofy. What is true is the parts of how much I've enjoyed sharing the
stories I find, and how much fun it is to share them with my relatives.

Dang, this was a tough one to write!

We now return you to the regularly scheduled "West in New England."