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Blog
Post Title
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Date
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Views
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1
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05/11/18
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8884
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2
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04/25/18
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7188
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3
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03/31/18
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3464
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4
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04/12/18
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2800
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5
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06/25/18
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2385
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6
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10/02/18
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2165
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7
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06/19/18
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2112
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8
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07/18/18
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2018
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9
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01/24/18
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2001
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10
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01/30/18
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1981
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11
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01/17/18
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1880
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12
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04/10/18
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1472
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13
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02/25/18
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1447
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14
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02/28/18
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1363
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15
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04/28/18
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1330
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16
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01/01/18
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1320
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17
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07/25/18
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1274
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18
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08/08/18
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1264
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19
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05/01/18
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1261
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20
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Seavers in the News -- Charles Seaver Dies in 1939 in Santa Maria, California |
10/12/18
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1180
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21
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08/02/18
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1176
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22
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02/17/18
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1118
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23
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02/28/18
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1087
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24
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05/05/18
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1038
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25
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08/03/18
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1013
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26
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52 Ancestors - Week 247: #372 Thomas Hazard (1707-after 1748) of North Kingstown, Rhode Island |
10/12/18
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966
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27
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09/26/18
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951
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28
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02/12/18
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928
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29
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08/17/18
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916
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30
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07/08/18
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896
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31
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05/12/18
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870
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32
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05/07/18
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865
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33
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02/18/18
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863
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34
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02/18/18
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851
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35
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02/13/18
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844
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36
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09/28/18
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834
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37
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08/15/18
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823
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38
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04/09/18
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821
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39
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02/13/18
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813
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40
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05/21/18
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808
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B) 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) - 11,499 views.
6) Randy's NGS 2010 Photos - Post 1 (posted 4 May 2010) - 9,345 views
7) RootsTech 2017 Blog Compendium -- UPDATED (posted 1 March 2017) - 8212 views
8) Ancestry.com Says They Will Work on Technical Problems (posted 11 May 2018) - 8884 views
9) Are There Search Problems on Ancestry.com? - UPDATED (posted 25 April 2018) - 7188 views.
10) Book Review: "The Spyglass File," by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (posted 29 September 2016) -- 6,407 viewsC) 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 an Genea-Musings archive 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, conferences, DNA, and genealogy software topics, and find my blog posts. Posts for the Amanuensis Monday and 52 Ancestors series have increased in viewership over last year.
D) Previous "most popular" posts on Genea-Musings are:
E) Readership of Genea-Musings has dropped over the past year - perhaps persons have given up on reading my blog (and other blogs) on a web browser and have moved to a reader or email, or perhaps Genea-Musings has become old-hat and readers are bored by it. for example, the 40th most viewed post last year had 968 views. This year, the 40th most viewed post had 808 views.
F) I wondered what the least popular Genea-Musings post was in 2018. I know that Surname Saturday, Treasure Chest Thursday, Wordless Wednesday, and Seavers in the News posts are not that popular. The least viewed blog post in 2018 was Ping Pong Buddies in 1956 -- Post 542 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday, posted 28 November 2018, with 49 views.
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2 comments:
Randy-
I appreciated your year in review and popular posts today.
I read your posts every day via email subscription - some in depth, some scanned, some skipped. I rarely go to the Blogger page unless I want to comment. Do you have a way to include this type of reading in your counts?
Thanks for all you do for the genealogical community!
Bill Greggs
bgreggs@gmail.com
Ditto for me, Randy. I heard about your blog via Roberta Estes' blog -- and her blog, too, I read via email. Usually when I click through (to any blog -- and I only read about 6 of them, via email subscription) it's via my phone to the browser. Not sure how/if that gets counted.
Thank you for all your work on this blog!
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