Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Top 60 Most Viewed Posts in 2025 on Genea-Musings

A) Here are the Top 60 Genea-Musings blog posts written in 2025 that had the most page views in 2025 (from View Count statistics on the Google Blogger Posts page as of 30 December 2025):
















15) 852 views - MyHeritage Introduces Ethnicity Estimate v2.5 (2 February 2025)











26)  719 views - An AI-assisted Genealogy Song - "I Am A Genealogist!" (14 August 2025)






















48)  629 views - Announcing YOUR GENEA-GENIE (1 April 2025)













Why 60?  Because it's a nice round number!  And I wanted to include a few more than last year (my blog, my choice!). Note that I did not include any of the "regular" posts that might have more than 584 views - there were several Best of the Genea-Blogs and Ancestry Database poststhat would be in the Top 60 above if I had included them.

This certainly was an AI year - 36 of the top 60 were about testing or using Artificial Intelligence. 

B)  The ten most popular Genea-Musings posts since 2007 (per Google Blogger) are:

1)  1940 Census Enumeration District Maps Online at NARA Website (posted 18 July 2011) - 88,600 views.
4)  Genealogy Presentations on Slideshare.net (posted 28 January 2010) - 26,000 views.
5)  World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 23,900 views.
6)  Dear Ancestry.com: Are You Fixing These Problems? (17 January 2019) - 17,800 views
7)  Merry Christmas to All! (posted 25 December 2011) - 15,000 views.
8)  Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your 16 Great-Great-Grands  (8 August 2009) - 11,200 views
9)  Was Daniel Boone an Ancestor of Pat Boone? (31 August 2007) - 10,200 views
10) Randy's NGS 2010 Photos - Post 1 (4 May 2010) - 9,600 views

Several of those "all-time" posts had more page views in 2025 than all but #1 on my Top 60 list.

C)  Of course, all of my blog posts are viewed by more readers than those that go to the specific web page for the post, which is what Google counts - those who read them on a Genea-Musings archive page, those that read them in an RSS reader, or on a mobile device.  In July 2022, Feedburner stopped their daily email service to subscribers, and I have switched a daily email to www.Blogtrottr.com but it doesn't provide reader counts.

D)  Previous "most popular" posts on Genea-Musings are:


E)  Readership of Genea-Musings went up significantly over the past year.  For example, the 10th most viewed post in 2025 had 940 views, the 20th most viewed post had 777 views, the 30th had 703 views, the 40th had 673 views, and the 50th had 622 views. In 2024, the 10th most viewed post had 572 views, the 20th had 482 views, the 30th had 427 views, the 40th had 377 views, and the 50th had 341 views.

Genea-Musings had about 7.77 million page views according to Google during 2025, and about 29.4 million page views since 2007.  In 2024, Genea-Musings had about 6.0 million page views, so the effect of all my efforts was about a 129% increase in page views for 2025.   Why?  Probably because of AI posts.  

I wrote about 1,110 blog posts in 2025, compared to over 970 for 2024, and over 900 for most years since 2007. Almost all of that increase is due to Artificial Intelligence posts.

F)  I wondered what the least viewed Genea-Musings post was in 2025.  I know that Treasure Chest Thursday, Wordless Wednesday, Census Sunday, 52 Ancestors and Seavers in the News posts are not that popular, but they are the most useful to my research.  The least viewed blog post in 2025 (to date) had 91 views.

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