BLOGIVERSARY: NOW WE ARE NINE

It's hard to believe that this blog is nine years old today. Sometimes I guess that old saying about "time flies when you're having fun" is as true for me in genealogy blogging as it is for me in researching my family tree. You'd think by now I would have run out of things to blog about but that hasn't happened yet! 

A few stats: This is post 1901. I've had 489,309 pageviews (the majority of which are probably webcrawlers) and I currently have 292 followers (I still haven't cracked the 300 barrier.)

These were my all time Top 5 blogposts as of January 2015:

THE FIFTH ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE POSTS  2471 pageviews
MEMORIES OF MALDEN                                                                                    938 pageviews

THE FOURTH AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BLOGPOST CHALLENGE ROUNDUP 757 pageviews

ANCESTRY.COM, 'NEW SEARCH' AND THE C.H.O.P. PRINCIPLE.                  618 pageviews

THE BOOK OF ME, WRITTEN BY YOU 3: THE SKIN I'M IN.                             584 pageviews

And these are my all time Top Ten as of today:

I was inspired to start my own geneablog by seeing the blogs written by Randy Seaver, Chris Dunham, and Tim Abbott, who as it turns out, are all my cousins. I found their blogs while
googling the surnames of my ancestors, and I realized that a genealogy blog might help other
distant cousins find me. It's worked beyond me expectations as "cousin bait".

Finally, thanks to you folks who read what I write and encourage me by leaving comments!