A) Here are the Top 50 viewed Genea-Musings blog posts from 2021 that had the most page views in 2021 (from View Count statistics on the Google Blogger Posts page as of 30 December 2021):
1) Findmypast announced major update to the National Burial Index For England & Wales (26 February 2021) - 3864 views2) Findmypast Publishes Huge Update to Scottish Roman Catholic Collection (4 June 2021) - 2240 views
3) Ancestry.com and Your Ancestry Member Tree (4 August 2021) - 2123 views
4) Is This the Best Gravestone Ever? (8 February 2021) - 1940 views
5) RootsTech Connect 2021 Class Sessions List Released (12 February 2021) - 1671 views
6) RootsTech Connect 2021 Genealogy Blog Compendium - Updated (4 March 2021) - 1260 views
7) Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 2 August 2021 (2 August 2021) - 1254 views
8) The Long-Awaited GEDCOM 7.0 is Here! (7 June 2021) - 1075 views
9) Carringers in the News -- Hazel Grace Carringer Marries Earl Laird Keck in 1917 in Greenville, Pennsylvania (28 September 2021) - 1054 views
10) Findmypast Friday: Explore Brand New Military Records and Memorials (14 May 2021) - 1045 views
11) Researcher Beware - Sometimes the AncestryDNA ThruLines Are Wrong (3 May 2021) - 1022 views
12) Findmypast Friday: New British Army Lists and Caribbean Family Records (9 July 2021) - 989 views
13) "Relatives at RootsTech" App at RootsTech Connect 2021 Now Online (20 February 2021) - 982 views
14) Using Ancestor Explorer for WikiTree to Generate an Ancestor List and Map (8 March 2021) - 978 views
15) Six Generation Descendants Report of Aaron Smith (1765-1841) and Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) of Medfield, Massachusetts (6 June 2021) - 955 views
16) Amanuensis Monday -- 1772 Deed of Norman Sever Selling Land in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts to Abel Osgood (8 November 2021) - 951 views
17) Free Access To Newspapers.com™ During Presidents Day Weekend! (11 February 2021) - 894 views
18) Exploring RootsMagic 8 - #1 - the Main Screens (3 October 2021) - 892 views
19) Amanuensis Monday -- 1751 Inventory of Jonas Prescott (1678-1750) Estate in Middlesex County, Massachusetts (15 February 2021) - 889 views
20) Changes to Genea-Musings (29 June 2021) - 861 views
21) Dear Randy - How Many DNA Matches From Your 3rd Great-Grandparents Do You Have by ThruLines in AncestryDNA? (5 May 2021) - 856 views
22) Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1664 Birth Record of Elizabeth Mayner (1664-1733) in Marlborough, Massachusetts (24 June 2021) - 855 views
23) Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Wiltshire Probate Records (15 December 2021) - 854 views
24) Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1658 Birth of 7th Great-Grandfather John Ston[e] in Watertown, Massachusetts (20 May 2021) - 849 views
25) Carringers in the News -- Martin Carringer Dies in 1906 in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania (10 August 2021) - 843 views
26) The Best Laid Plans -- Life Happens (28 June 2021) - 830 views
27) Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1698 Marriage Records of Samuel Prescott and Esther Wheeler in Concord and Lancaster, Massachusetts (28 January 2021) - 823 views
28) Carringers in the News -- Bessie Louise Carringer Marries Charles Davis in 1915 in Greenville, Pennsylvania (21 September 2021) - 817 views
29) Amanuensis Monday -- 1707 Will of Robert Herrington (1616-1707) of Watertown, Massachusetts (15 March 2021) - 811 views
30) Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Which Ancestor(s) Are At The Top of Your Research List? (4 December 2021) - 808 views
31) Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1649 Birth of Joseph Grout (1649-1720) in Sudbury, Massachusetts (22 July 2021) - 797 views
32) Seavers in the News - Byron D. Seaver Dies in 1954 in Sacramento, California (29 July 2021) - 796 views
33) Six Generation Descendants Report of Thomas Dill (1755-1839) and Hannah Horton (1761-1797) of Eastham, Massachusetts (9 June 2021) - 791 views
34) Trying Out the MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia™ App Animation (3 March 2021) - 774 views
35) FREE National Archives Genealogy Series - May and June 2021 (20 April 2021) - 773 views
36) Seavers In the News -- Mrs. Jennie Seaver Dies in 1947 in Brattleboro, Vermont (11 February 2021) - 758 views
37) Downloading My AncestryDNA Match List With Google Sheets (17 March 2021) - 738 views
38) Carringers in the News -- Thomas A. Carringer Dies in 1911 in Greenville, Pennsylvania (6 April 2021) - 730 views
39) Six Generation Descendants Report of Isaac Buck (1757-1846) and Martha Phillips (1757-1830) of Sterling, Massachusetts (27 October 2021) - 729 views
40) Findmypast Friday: Brand new Irish family records now online (15 January 2021) - 714 views
41) Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 26 June to 2 July 2021 (3 July 2021) - 711 views
42) Carringers in the News -- District Attorney Marion Carringer Shot in 1915 in Forest County, Pennsylvania. (23 November 2021) - 708 views
43) 52 Ancestors - Week 369: #580 Jonas Prescott (1678-1750) of Groton, Massachusetts (12 February 2021) - 704 views
44) My Sailor Father Animated in 1944 -- Post 663 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday (7 April 2021) - 692 views
45) What's Coming Soon To Ancestry? (16 June 2021) - 683 views
46) Disproving an AncestryDNA ThruLine (3 November 2021) - 672 views
47) Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1692 Marriage of Edmund Rice and Ruth Parker in Marlborough, Massachusetts (8 July 2021) - 667 views
48) Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 24 to 30 April 2021 (1 May 2021) - 665 views
49) 52 Ancestors - Week 399: #622 Joseph Morse (1667-1733) of Groton and Marlborough, Massachusetts (1 October 2021) - 662 views
50) Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1699 Marriage Record of Jonas Prescott and Thankfull Wheeler in Concord, Massachusetts (18 February 2021) - 661 views
Why 50? Well, the plan was to do a Top 30. I guessed that 600 views would be #30 this past year, and I was listing them week by week in order and ended up with over 60 on the list. So I cut it to 50!
B) The ten most popular Genea-Musings posts since 2007 (per Google Blogger) 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) - 67,300 views.
3) Genealogy Presentations on Slideshare.net (posted 28 January 2010) - 25,940 views.
4) Dear Ancestry.com: Are You Fixing These Problems? (17 January 2019) - 17000 views
5) Merry Christmas to All! (posted 25 December 2011) - 14,900 views.
6) World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 14,600 views.
7) Randy's NGS 2010 Photos - Post 1 (posted 4 May 2010) - 9,345 views
8) RootsTech 2017 Blog Compendium -- UPDATED (posted 1 March 2017) - 8212 views
9) Ancestry.com Says They Will Work on Technical Problems (posted 11 May 2018) - 7910 views
10) Book Review: "The Spyglass File," by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (posted 29 September 2016) -- 6,410 views
C) Of course, all of my blog posts are viewed by many more readers than those that go to the specific web page for the post - those who read them on a Genea-Musings archive page, those that read them in an RSS reader, or on a mobile device, and those that receive them via email (Feedburner still works for me!).
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) - 67,300 views.
3) Genealogy Presentations on Slideshare.net (posted 28 January 2010) - 25,940 views.
4) Dear Ancestry.com: Are You Fixing These Problems? (17 January 2019) - 17000 views
6) World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 14,600 views.
7) Randy's NGS 2010 Photos - Post 1 (posted 4 May 2010) - 9,345 views
8) RootsTech 2017 Blog Compendium -- UPDATED (posted 1 March 2017) - 8212 views
9) Ancestry.com Says They Will Work on Technical Problems (posted 11 May 2018) - 7910 views
10) Book Review: "The Spyglass File," by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (posted 29 September 2016) -- 6,410 views
C) Of course, all of my blog posts are viewed by many more readers than those that go to the specific web page for the post - those who read them on a Genea-Musings archive page, those that read them in an RSS reader, or on a mobile device, and those that receive them via email (Feedburner still works for me!).
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. In addition, there are thousands of spam comments in the list (now Google doesn't block them and I'm too lazy to do it every day).
It certainly seems like readers search for Ancestry.com, Findmypast, DNA, Dear Randy, and genealogy software topics, and find my blog posts. In recent years, my research posts - Amanuensis Monday, 52 Ancestors, Treasure Chest Thursday, etc. have made the Top 40 list.
D) Previous "most popular" posts on Genea-Musings are:
E) Readership of Genea-Musings went up a bit over the past year - perhaps more persons have started reading my blog (and other blogs) on a web browser or moved from a reader or email, or perhaps Genea-Musings has become more interesting and readers are excited by it. For example, the 30th most viewed post last year had 642 views. This year, the 30th most viewed post had 808 views and the 50th had 661 views.
Google says that there were 1.66 million page views for Genea-Musings in 2021, and 13.2 million page views all time (since 2007). These numbers include views of "Pages" on Genea-Musings - the subject headings at the top of the page.
I wrote about 870 blog posts this year, compared to over 950 for most years since 2007.
F) I wondered what the least viewed Genea-Musings post was in 2021. I know that Surname Saturday, Treasure Chest Thursday, Wordless Wednesday, and Seavers in the News posts are not that popular (but some made the Top 50 this year). The least viewed blog post in 2021 (to date) was Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1693 Marriage of John Smith and Ruth Cutler in Charlestown, Massachusetts posted 23 December 2021, with 91 views.
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