A) Here are the Top 40 viewed Genea-Musings blog posts from 2022 that had the most page views in 2022 (from View Count statistics on the Google Blogger Posts page as of 29 December 2022):
1) 2172 Views: Ancestry Raising Subscription Prices Effective 1 February 2022 - Updated (posted 6 January 2022)2) 1192 views: The State of the 1950 United States Census - 3 April 2022 (posted 3 April 2022)
3) 1028 views: AncestryDNA Introduces DNA Chromosome Painter (posted 20 July 2022)
4) 848 views: Rabbit Holes With Randy - Use the MyHeritage Public Records Index to Find Records for Living People (posted 2 February 2022)
5) 827 views: Association of Professional Genealogists Responds to New Yorker Magazine Article "Ancestor Worship" (posted 19 May 2022)
6) 766 views: Guest Post: Old Stone Tag: Preserving History and Securing Memories (posted 16 June 2022)
7) 694 views: My 23 Known Revolutionary War Soldiers (posted 4 July 2022)
8) 674 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 438: #708 Matthew Wing (1673-1724) of Sandwich and Dartmouth, Massachusetts (posted 15 July 2022)
9) 646 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 439: #709 Elizabeth (Mott) (Ricketson) Wing (1659-after 1724) of Portsmouth and Dartmouth, Massachusetts (posted 22 July 2022)
10) 646 views: RootsMagic Family Tree Software Updated to Version 8.2.0 (posted 28 June 2022)
11) 633 views: Treasure Chest Thursday - 1810 United States Census for Humphry White Household in Glocester, R.I. (posted 16 June 2022)
12) 610 views: Treasure Chest Thursday - 1800 United States Census for Humphry White Household in Glocester, R.I. (9 June 2022)
13) 594 views: Treasure Chest Thursday - 1673 Birth Record of Matthew Wing (1673-1724) in Sandwich, Massachusetts (posted 7 July 2022)
14) 594 views: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Are You Ready for 1950 U.S. Census? (posted 12 March 2022)
15) 577 views: First Look At Ancestry and Photomyne Photo Enhancements (posted 3 March 2022)
16) 576 views: Census Sunday -- 1950 Census Record for the Marshall B. Chamberlain Household in San Diego, California (posted 3 July 2022)
17) 559 views: Rabbit Holes With Randy - Finding Nathan Brigham Land Deeds on FamilySearch (posted 16 February 2022)
18) 557 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 441: #711 Hannah (Mott) Tucker (1663-1732) of Portsmouth, Rhode Island and Dartmouth, Massachusetts (posted 5 August 2022)
19) 557 views: Another Hiatus in Genea-Musings - I'm in the Hospital (posted 27 May 2022)
20) 544 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 442: #712 Robert Kirby (1674-1757) of Dartmouth, Massachusetts (posted 12 August 2022)
21) 531 views: Rabbit Holes With Randy - Which Mary Buck is Rebecca's Ancestor? (posted 25 August 2022)
22) 519 views: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What First Sparked Your Interest in Family History? (posted 29 January 2022)
23) 516 views: Exploring the 1950 U.S. Census ED Finder Tool on Ancestry.com - Updated (posted 27 March 2022)
24) 504 views: First Look at the MyHeritage LiveStory Feature (posted 3 March 2022)
25) 465 views: Rest in Peace, My Friend - "Cousin Russ" Worthington (1943-2022) (posted 17 May 2022)
26) 465 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 446: #716 Jacob Soule (1687-1748) of Dartmouth, Massachusetts (posted 9 September 2022)
27) 461 views: Rabbit Holes With Randy - Working With Family Tree Analyzer (23 February 2022)
28) 448 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 437: #707 Sarah (--?--) Thurston (c1659-c1711) of Little Compton, Rhode Island (posted 8 July 2022)
29) 446 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 443: #713 Rebecca (Potter) Kirby (1681-1773) of Dartmouth, Massachusetts (posted 19 August 2022)
30) 441 views: Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 28 May to June 3 2022 (posted 4 June 2022)
31) 438 views: #MyAncestryStory Debuts on the Ancestry Mobile app (posted 1 March 2022)
32) 435 views: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Are Your 2022 Plans/Goals/Resolutions for Your Genealogy Research (posted 1 January 2022)
33) 434 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 444: #714 Joseph Allen (1667-1735) of Dartmouth, Massachusetts (posted 26 August 2022)
34) 427 views: Will the AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate Ever Settle Down? (posted 17 April 2022)
35) 418 views: FamilySearch: 1950 US Census -- The Next Big Thing in Family History (posted 31 January 2022)
36) 408 views: Ancestry Releases an Early Version of the 1950 U.S. Census Index (posted 4 May 2022)
37) 405 views: 52 Ancestors - Week 447: #717 Rebecca (Gifford) Soule (1689-b1747) of Dartmouth, Massachusetts (posted 16 September 2022)
38) 404 views: COVID-19 Has Infected Genea-Musings (posted 5 December 2022)
39) 402 views: Rabbit Holes With Randy - Subway Maps on Goldie May, Your Genealogy Research Assistant (posted 25 May 2022)
40) 401 views: Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Six Degrees of Randy Seaver From WikiTree (posted 8 June 2022)
Why 40? Because I knew my blog posts views were down this year because of a general falloff in number of blog posts, stale weekly topics, then the Feedburner loss, plus my health problems. So I listed 300 or more views and cut it back to 40, which happened at 400 views.
Genea-Musings had about 975,000 page views according to Google during 2022, and about 14.1 million views since 2007. In 2021, Genea-Musings had about 1.5 million page views, so the effect of all my excuses above was about a 33% drop in page views for 2022.
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) - 72,200 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) - 17,000 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
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) - 72,200 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) - 17,000 views
5) World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 15,700 views.
6) Merry Christmas to All! (posted 25 December 2011) - 14,900 views.
7) Randy's NGS 2010 Photos - Post 1 (posted 4 May 2010) - 9,350 views8) 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
These 10 haven't changed in the last year, except #5 and #6 switched places.
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 not found an acceptable substitute yet.
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 not found an acceptable substitute yet.
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 review them and delete them every day).
It certainly seems like readers search for Ancestry.com, Findmypast, DNA, Dear Randy, Rabbit Holes, and genealogy software topics, and find my blog posts. In recent years, some of 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 down significantlyover the past year - the Feedburner suspension did not help! For example, the 10th most viewed post last year had 646 views, the 20th most viewed post had 544 views, the 30th had 441 views, and the 40th had 401 views. Last year, the 10th most viewed post had 1045 views, the 20th had 861 views, the 30th had 808 views and the 40th had 714 views.
Google says that there were 975 thousand page views for Genea-Musings in 2022, and 14.1 million page views all time (since 2007). These numbers include views of "Pages" on Genea-Musings - the "Pages" link is at the top of the page.
I wrote about 825 blog posts this year, compared to over 870 for 2021, and over 900 for most years since 2007.
F) I wondered what the least viewed Genea-Musings post was in 2022. I know that Treasure Chest Thursday, Wordless Wednesday, Census Sunday, and Seavers in the News posts are not that popular. The least viewed blog post in 2022 (to date) had 53 views.
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