BLOGIVERSARY: NOW WE ARE FIVE

Wow, I can't believe it has been five years since I began this blog. Of course,

I need to do my now traditional annual disclosure about why this was my

second geneablog:

"Yes, now it can be told. My first geneablog was a failure. I was new

to this whole idea and started out enthusiastically and wrote

five posts within a few days for my blog which I'd named

West of New England. But when I went to add a new post a day

or so later, I discovered I couldn't recall the password for the blog.

After about a half an hour I gave up and just recreated the blog.

I'd saved what I'd written so I created a new blogger account

and started a new geneablog, West in New England. And that's why

the first five posts are all dated Jan 23,2007."

And that's also how I learned the first rule of blogging, "Don't forget

your password!"

Seriously, I'm glad I stuck with it. Through this blog I've come in contact

with cousins I might otherwise have never known about. It's also been

the means by which I discovered the online genealogy community, a

bunch of great people with whom I can share my passion for history and

genealogy. My life is better for that.

I hope I've entertained and informed my readers over these past five years,

and I thank you all for your support and encouragement.

I'm still having fun with blogging and genealogy, so I think I'll shoot for

another five years!