Like many other genea-bloggers, I'm curious about which posts on Genea-Musings are "popular" - and why they might be.
1) Here are the Top 40 viewed Genea-Musings blog posts from 2017 that had the most page views in 2017 (from View Count statistics on the Google Blogger Posts page as of 28 December 2017).
No.
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Post
Title
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Date
|
Views
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1
|
RootsTech
2017 Blog Compendium – UPDATED |
3/1/17
|
9758
|
2
|
Family
Tree Maker 2017 Software Announced at #RootsTech |
2/9/17
|
6785
|
3
|
Surname
Saturday -- WORCESTER (England to colonial New England) |
3/18/17
|
3789
|
4
|
Checking
Out FamilySearch Web Search Feature on Family Tree Maker 2017 |
7/19/17
|
3362
|
5
|
All
Census Records at MyHeritage Are FREE August 14-20 |
8/13/17
|
3296
|
6
|
Family
Tree Maker 2017 Update News |
4/10/17
|
2981
|
7
|
Latest
Update from Family Tree Maker About FTM 2017 |
4/4/17
|
2883
|
8
|
Why
Does the Ancestry API For Web Hints Add Bogus Facts? |
8/28/17
|
2528
|
9
|
Amanuensis
Monday -- Probate Records of Thomas Dill (1708-1761) Estate in
Barnstable County, Massachusetts - Part 3 |
3/13/17
|
2328
|
10
|
A
Wonderful Autosomal DNA Relationship Chart From DNA Detectives |
11/27/17
|
2166
|
11
|
Good
News for Suffolk County, Massachusetts Researchers |
11/20/17
|
2163
|
12
|
Updated
Find A Grave Website Adds Decent Source Citations |
11/9/17
|
2082
|
13
|
Find
A Grave Website Updating on 1 November |
10/25/17
|
2045
|
14
|
Comparing
My Living DNA Results With Other Autosomal DNA Tests |
1/12/17
|
2018
|
15
|
Received
my LivingDNA Autosomal Test Results - Post 1 |
1/10/17
|
1822
|
16
|
Family
Tree Maker 2017 News - March 2017 |
3/27/17
|
1773
|
17
|
It's
Easier to Download #RootsTech 2017 Syllabus Articles Using the App
Website |
1/23/17
|
1756
|
18
|
Amanuensis
Monday -- Probate Records of Thomas Dill (1708-1761) Estate in
Barnstable County, Massachusetts - Part 2 |
3/6/17
|
1642
|
19
|
Genealogy
Industry Benchmark Numbers for 1 January 2017 |
1/1/17
|
1568
|
20
|
Is
There Really an Ancestry.com "Big Tree?" |
3/04/17
|
1398
|
21
|
Well,
Good. Ancestry Explains the Lack of Changes to Number of
Collections |
11/29/17
|
1348
|
22
|
Using
RootsMagic TreeShare - Adding Facts, Media and Sources to My
RootsMagic Tree |
6/29/17
|
1311
|
23
|
Latest
Family Tree Maker 2017 Update and FamilySync News |
5/1/17
|
1287
|
24
|
Latest
News on Family Tree Maker 2017 Release |
4/14/17
|
1230
|
25
|
Finding
Syllabus Material on the RootsTech 2017 Mobile App |
1/16/17
|
1223
|
26
|
Exploring
the New FamilySearch Collection "Pennsylvania Civil
Marriages, 1677-1950" |
1/25/17
|
1215
|
27
|
Get
Free Advice About and Access to Probate Records on NEHGS on 18-25
April 2017 |
4/7/17
|
1214
|
28
|
52
Ancestors - Week 161: #226 Matthias Trimmer (1722-1793) of New
Jersey |
1/27/17
|
1191
|
29
|
Ancestry.com
Quirk: The Vanishing Search Result |
7/26/17
|
1156
|
30
|
Which
Record Provider Provides the Most Record Hints? |
4/5/17
|
1135
|
31
|
Added
or Updated Databases at Ancestry.com - Week of 23 to 29 April 2017 |
4/30/17
|
1126
|
32
|
Latest
Update From Family Tree Maker 2017 |
4/20/17
|
1098
|
33
|
FamilySearch
Digital Microfilm Update |
8/16/17
|
1096
|
34
|
Spring
2017 NEHG Register is Available |
5/19/17
|
1077
|
35
|
Have
You Tried One Page Genealogy? |
3/15/17
|
1075
|
36
|
6
Things to Look for in FamilySearch in 2017 |
1/9/17
|
1031
|
37
|
CVGS
General Meeting on 25 January Features Randy Seaver on
FamilySearch Digital Microfilm |
1/21/17
|
1027
|
38
|
Ancestry
Member Trees, Indexing Rules, Cousin Bait, Source Citations and Me |
12/18/17
|
1011
|
39
|
Twile
is now completely free for everybody |
2/5/17
|
1006
|
40
|
52
Ancestors - Week 189: #268 Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752) of
Ipswich and Concord, Massachusetts |
8/25/17
|
968
|
2) The ten most popular Genea-Musings posts since 2007 are:
1) Microfilm Scanning at the FHL and FHC (posted 22 July 2009) - 76,910 views.
2) 1940 Census Enumeration District Maps Online at NARA Website (posted 18 July 2011) - 63,116 views.
3) Genealogy Presentations on Slideshare.net (posted 28 January 2010) - 25,937 views.
4) Merry Christmas to All! (posted 25 December 2011) - 14,852 views.
5) World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 11,536 views.
6) Randy's NGS 2010 Photos - Post 1 (posted 4 May 2010) - 9,700 views
7) Book Review: "The Spyglass File," by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (posted 29 September 2016 -- 6,960 views
8) Family Tree Maker 2014 Software Announced - 30% Discount (or more) (posted 26 August 2013) -- 5,007 views.
9) Creating Source Citations in RootsMagic 7 - Post 1: New Master Source (posted 12 January 2016) -- 4,786 views.
10) Surname Saturday - LNU (? Dolbear ?) (England to colonial New England) (posted 28 September 2013) -- 4,407 views
NOTE: Google's "all-Time" page views seems to be broken - those posts and numbers are what they were a year ago. The two 2017 posts with over 5,000 page views are not included.
3) Of course, all of my blog posts are viewed by many more readers than those that go to the web page for the post - those who read them on the Genea-Musings home page, those that read them in an RSS reader, or on a mobile device, and those that receive them via email.
Another measure of popularity or readership might be in the number of comments generated by each post. I don't think that is a reliable measure of popularity because of the proliferation of RSS reader usage, email usage, and mobile device usage, each of which require one or more click throughs to get to the comment box.
It certainly seems like readers search for Ancestry.com, source citations, and genealogy software topics, and find my blog posts.
Previous "most popular" posts on Genea-Musings are:
I wondered what the least popular Genea-Musings post was in 2017. I know that Surname Saturday, Treasure Chest Thursday, Wordless Wednesday, and Amanuensis Monday posts are not that popular. Best of the Genea-Blogs and Saturday Night Genealogy Fun are usually popular, often with the highest number of views each week. I found that 52 Ancestors - Week 206: #285 Hannah (Atwood) Horton (1686-1771) of Eastham, Massachusetts (posted 22 December 2017) had only 73 views to date.
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Hey, Amanuensis Mondays are one of my favorites - abstracting and creating source citations for documents is a crucial skill, and your cases provide excellent examples.
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