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Friday, December 31, 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 31 December 2021

 Welcome to Genealogy News and Education Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.    


1)  News Articles:






2)  New or Updated Record Collections:






3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes



4)  Genealogy Education - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):



*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 5 January, 11 a.m.:  The Only Thing You Need to Know About DNA and Genealogy, by Diahan Southard

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Tech Zone -- Adding a Video to a Microsoft Word Document, by Gena Philibert-Ortega.

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts/Radio Shows:



6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):



*  Genealogy Quick Start: LIVE: Recipes... In Their Own Write!





7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 24 December 2021?

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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Top 40 Most Viewed Posts in 2022 on Genea-Musings

 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)

7)  694 views:  My 23 Known Revolutionary War Soldiers (posted 4 July 2022)
10) 646 views:  RootsMagic Family Tree Software Updated to Version 8.2.0 (posted 28 June 2022)

15)  577 views:  First Look At Ancestry and Photomyne Photo Enhancements (posted 3 March 2022)

19)  557 views:  Another Hiatus in Genea-Musings - I'm in the Hospital (posted 27 May 2022)

24)  504 views:  First Look at the MyHeritage LiveStory Feature (posted 3 March 2022)


31)  438 views:  #MyAncestryStory Debuts on the Ancestry Mobile app (posted 1 March 2022)
34) 427 views:  Will the AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate Ever Settle Down? (posted 17 April 2022)

36)  408  views:  Ancestry Releases an Early Version of the 1950 U.S. Census Index (posted 4 May 2022)
38)  404 views:  COVID-19 Has Infected Genea-Musings (posted 5 December 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
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 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

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.

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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Saturday, December 10, 2022

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Linda's "December Genea-Meme"

 It's Saturday Night - 

Time For More 

Genealogy Fun! 



Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

A)  Genea-Blogger Linda Stufflebean created a "December Genea-Meme" - so this is our challenge for Saturday Night.  Thank you, Linda!!

B)  Copy the 20 questions below to your own blog post or to a word processor, and answer the questions.

B)  Please share it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.

Here's are the 20 questions:

1. What is one genea-accomplishment this year of which you are proud?
2. Is there a particular song that when you first hear it, tells you that the holidays are
here?
3. Share a holiday memory which is special for you.
4. Has your family passed down any holiday stories?
5. Which past genea-gift have you really appreciated?
6. Does your family cook any holiday recipes that have been handed down?
7. What is your favorite holiday song?
8. Is there a holiday song that you wish was forgotten forever?
9. What is one (realistic) item on your Genea-Santa list this year?
10. What is one item on your not-so-realistic wish list for Genea-Santa?
11. What holiday meal will be served?
12. Will your family reminisce about past holidays when you get together?
13. Will you travel to spend the day with others?
14. Do you have old family holiday photos or home movies that will be viewed this
year?
15. Did you break through any brick walls in 2022?
16. Has your family shared any holiday recipes/activities or ??? which have become
new yearly traditions?
17. Do you have a 2022 genea-goal which could have been accomplished, but over
which you’ve procrastinated?
18. Do you participate in any holiday activities with your neighbors?
19. Think – if you had to choose right this minute – which ancestor would you most
like to meet?
20. What is one of your 2023 genealogy goals?

Here are my answers:

1. What is one genea-accomplishment this year of which you are proud?  I added more than 48 weeks of Amanuensis Monday (record transcriptions) and 52 Ancestors (ancestor sketches) blog posts this year.  

2. Is there a particular song that when you first hear it, tells you that the holidays are
here?  Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You!"

3. Share a holiday memory which is special for you.  Spending Christmas Eve at my grandparents house because they had a chimney, and singing carols at bedtime with my grandmother.

4. Has your family passed down any holiday stories?  Not many.

5. Which past genea-gift have you really appreciated?  Nathan Dylan Goodwin forensic genealogy books.

6. Does your family cook any holiday recipes that have been handed down?  Not really - it was pretty traditional turkey, stuffing, vegetables, potatoes, pumpkin pie.

7. What is your favorite holiday song?  Mariah Carey's song.

8. Is there a holiday song that you wish was forgotten forever?  "In the Bleak Midwinter"

9. What is one (realistic) item on your Genea-Santa list this year? A genealogy-themed T-shirt.

10. What is one item on your not-so-realistic wish list for Genea-Santa?  A trip to Salt Lake City.

11. What holiday meal will be served?  I have no clue.  It depends where I go = Tami's a friend's, or home alone.

12. Will your family reminisce about past holidays when you get together?  Probably not much.

13. Will you travel to spend the day with others?  Maybe - I may go to Tami's home, a friend's home, or stay home.

14. Do you have old family holiday photos or home movies that will be viewed this
year?  I have plenty - about 50 home movies (not all Christmas) and a lot of Christmas photos with my kids and grandkids, some of which I've put on my blog.  No one seems interested.

15. Did you break through any brick walls in 2022?  I don't think so.

16. Has your family shared any holiday recipes/activities or ??? which have become
new yearly traditions?  Not really.

17. Do you have a 2022 genea-goal which could have been accomplished, but over
which you’ve procrastinated?  All of them!  See Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Are Your 2022 Plans/Goals/Resolutions for Your Genealogy Research for the goals I set for 2022.  I have continued to try to keep up with my DNA Matches, but have failed to add to my DNA Painter chromosome painting.

18. Do you participate in any holiday activities with your neighbors?  I watch their decorations.  The folks next door have lots of lights and a blow-up Santa on their front lawn.

19. Think – if you had to choose right this minute – which ancestor would you most like to meet?
2nd great-grandfather Isaac Seaver (1823-1901), who had a hard life - orphaned, had a guardian, a blacksmith, first wife died in childbirth, served in Washington DC in the Civil War, lost his second wife, married a third wife, received a Civil War pension, and died of stomach cancer.

20. What is one of your 2023 genealogy goals?  To survive my health problems - heart, COVID, balance, and other issues - so that I can work all year on my genealogy research.

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Saturday, January 1, 2022

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Are Your 2022 Plans/Goals/Resolutions for Your Genealogy Research

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!


Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1)  It's the New Year, and many readers and bloggers have already made resolutions, or goals, or plans for one or more tasks or projects.  Or they haven't yet, but could, or should.

2)  For this SNGF, please tell us what plans you've made, or what goals you've stated, or what resolutions you've averred for 2022.  Writing them down may help you achieve them.  Do one or more as you wish.

3)  Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post so readers can find your resolutions/goals/plans.  

Here's mine:

I usually don't do this because it seems that I always fail (yes, I think I won the ##GOPA for 2021 again  - see below).  I stopped working on 2021 Goal #1 when Linda had her accident.  I partially accomplished Goal #2 and totally failed Goal #3. 

However, I will state three goals that I hope to accomplish in 2022, but two of them are essentially the same goals that I set last year at this time:

*  Goal #1 is to continue working on the Descendants Reports of my 4th great-grandparents.  I have done 8 of them so far (25% of 32 couples) in 2021.  I take what I have and then research descendants wherever I find them, and from whatever source I find them, and try to support the relationships with record sources.  With 24 more reports to do, this is a big goal, but I have a lot already done.  A reasonable goal would be to do eight more, I think.

Therefore 2022 Goal #1 is to work more on the Descendant reports for my 4th great-grandparents and publish the Descendants Reports.

*  Goal #2 is from 2020 and 2021 - to keep gathering my triangulated DNA match data from the chromosome browsers on FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritageDNA, 23andMe, and GEDmatch and update my DNA Painter display of which bits of every chromosome in my DNA came from which ancestors.  I have done the first pass with DNA matches with known common ancestors, and have about 25% of my chromosomes mapped.  I need to find more known common ancestors (and Goal #1 is supposed to help that!) for my high-value DNA matches using available records and research using my Skeleton tree on Ancestry.  Along with this is to do more work in Genetic Affairs to cluster my matches to help the process along.  

Therefore 2022 Goal #2 is to continue to do this in 2022 and produce a prettier picture of my ancestor's contributions to my DNA from DNA Painter.

3)  Goal #3 is left over from 2021 - to update my eBooks on my ancestral families and descendants of my surname study families (last done in 2012 and they are still on Scribd.com (see   https://www.scribd.com/user/43095920/Randy-Seaver), and are searchable).  I need to update them because I have found a wealth of information on my ancestral families and descendants of my surname study progenitors in the last 8 years.  I will do this using one of the genealogy software programs that formats ancestor and descendants reports in a standard format that looks best.  I will include sources, but not notes or media (the 2012 books are already hundreds of pages without them).  

Here is what I think the Seaver books will look like:

Those are my three goals for 2022 - what are yours?

My overall goal for 2022 is to stay alive (COVID go away - and take Omicron, Pi, Rho and Tau variants with you!), visit my wife every day in the memory care facility and to see my daughters and grandkids more often. 

##What is GOPA - I know that inquiring minds want to know:  Did I win the "Genealogist's Outstanding Procrastination Award" for 2021?  If not, who did?  

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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 2 to 8 January 2022

 Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  Looking Back, Looking Forward: 2022 by Leah Larkin on The DNA Geek.

*  New Year, New Goals by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree.

*  Welcome to 1926! by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.

*  The Life of a DNA Segment by Jim Bartlett on Segment-ology.

*  Keep Genealogy Exciting With This One List by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree.

*  1921 Census of England and Wales to be released January 6, 2022 by Paul Milner on Milner Genealogy.

*  Genealogy Mistakes that Everyone Makes (and How to Avoid Them) by Amy Johnson Crow on Amy Johnson Crow.

*  DNA Test Surprise? Giving the News with Compassion by Brianne Kirkpatrick on Your DNA Guide.

*  Locating the Actual place Your Ancestors Lived: Sheldon Land Records in Early Kingstown Rhode Island by Kelly Wheaton on Wheaton Wood.

*  The Return of What is a Source? by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  How to Write a Professional Genealogy Research Report by Robert on Legacy Tree Genealogists.

*  Education: So Many Choices! by Leah Larkin on The DNA Geek.

*  Your Genealogy Webinar Action Plan for 2022 by Gena Philibert-Ortega on Legacy News.

*  Top Ten 1921 Census Tips by Jane Roberts on PastToPresentGenealogy.

*  Finding Your Roots – Dutch Stories by John Boeren on Antecedentia.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday's Family History Finds by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  This Week's Creme de la Creme - January 8th, 2022  by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and  read their articles, and add the blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I currently am reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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Sunday, January 2, 2022

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 26 December 2021 to 1 January 2022

Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  Looking Back at 2021 on Geni by Amanda on Geni Blog.

* GeneticAffairs AutoKinship: A Tool to Build Family Trees Based on Amounts of Shared DNA by Robin Withlin on Family Locket.

*  The Family History Guide Highlights for 2021 by Bob Taylor on The Family History Guide Blog.

*  A Look Back at My Genealogy Projects in 2021 and A Look Ahead to My Genealogy Projects in 2022 by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.

*  What are revolving door ancestors and why do they exist? by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  Is Information on FamilySearch.org Family Tree Accurate? by Amie Bowser Tennant on The Genealogy Reporter.

*  3 Genealogy Goals for the New Year by Gena Philibert-Ortega on GenealogyBank Blog.

*  Top 5 Blog Posts of 2021: Brick Wall Strategies by the writer on Legacy Tree Genealogists.

*  13 Reasons to Include Tax Records in Your Genealogy Research by Kenneth Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.

*  Can I use Ancestry ThruLines as proof for a lineage society application? by Bryna O'Sullivan on Charter Oak Genealogy.

*  Top 30 genealogy webinars of 2021 by Geoff Rasmussen on Legacy News.

*  Digital File Organization for Genealogy by Julie Cahill Tarr on Genealogy In Action.

*  DNA for Native-American Genealogy by Roberta Estes: Book Review by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday's Family History Finds by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  Friday Fossicking 31st Dec. 2021 by Crissouli on That Moment in Time.

* This Week's Creme de la Creme - December 31, 2021  by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and  read their articles, and add the blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I currently am reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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