Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Best of Genea-Musings in 2010 (My Choices)

I counted up the number of blog postings on Genea-Musings for 2010 -- 939!  2.57 posts a day, almost all of them original content (i.e., not press releases).  Of course, that includes almost weekly postings on Amanuensis Monday, Tombstone Tuesday/Tuesday's Tips, Not So Wordless Wednesday, Treasure Chest Thursday, Surname Saturday, Saturday Night Genealogy Fun and Best of the Genea-Blogs. 

So what were the best of the ramblings of this geneaholic blogger?  Here are my choices, by broad category:

1)  PERSONAL RESEARCH

Who is Mr. Seaver - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (January 2010)

Chronicling Rosalie and Jeremiah - Part 1, Part 2 (January 2010)

Who Were the Parents of Susannah Page (ca1611-1693)? (April 2010)

Finding Nathaniel Wade's Wife's Name Online - Post 1, Post 2, Post 3 (June 2010)

*  Hiram Abiathur Knapp (1841-1927) (13 August 2010)

Was Charlotte on the Orphan Train? (1 September 2010)

The Whittle Research Compendium (23 posts) (September-November 2010)

Full Day Research at the FHL (22 October 2010)

Using the FAN Club Principle - Thomas J. Newton, Father of Sophia Newton (1834-1923) - Post 1; Post 2: Which Repositories? (November 2010)

Were the Morgan Girls Related to Lyle Carringer? (December 2010)

2)  BOOK REVIEWS

Who Do You Think You Are? by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak (4 March 2010)

Wanted! U.S. Criminal Records  by Ron Arons (8 June 2010)

The Journey Takers by Leslie Albrecht Huber (29 June 2010)

Shaking the Family Tree by Buzzy Jackson (7 September 2010)

Review: Quicksheet. Genealogical Problem Analysis: A Strategic Plan (20 October 2010)

If This Land Could Talk by Judy R. Cook (16 November 2010)

Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Military Districts by Paul Graham (6 December 2010)

3)  COMMENTARY

Teachable Moments in "Doing a Reasonably Exhaustive Search" (4 January 2010)

A Conversation with David E. Rencher - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (April 2010)

The Future of Genealogy Collaboration? (30 April 2010)

Finding Ancestry.com Databases Without Name Indexes (7 May 2010)

The Online Family Tree Conundrum (10 May 2010)

*  \Ancestry.com Source citations leave a lot to be desired (14 May 2010)

Dear Randy: Where do I find "the good stuff?" (28 May 2010)

Is Robert Pattinson a Cousin to Vlad III Dracula? (24 June 2010)

The Ancestral Golden Arches of Genealogy? (30 July 2010)

Ancestry.com Acquisition of iArchives (including Footnote.com) (23 September 2010)

Intentional Acts of Genealogical Terrorism (8 October 2010)

FamilySearch Blogger Day - FamilySearch Family Tree; Upcoming Collections; The Current and Next FamilySearch Site; FamilySearch IndexingSoftware Community (October 2010)

That's enough - more than ten...

Do my readers have any suggestions for my "Best of Genea-Musings" list?  Which posts helped you solve a research problem or perform better research, or taught a needed lesson?

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