I'm only a little late figuring this out. We're just barely past halfway through January. Now, if it were all the way at the end of January, that would really have been dragging my feet. The big news is that this is the first time I've posted my Top 10 since the 2020 listing. I guess I really did have a few rough years in there.
So, without further ado, what were the ten most popular topics (by readership) on my blog this past year?
Starting the list at #10 was the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge to use FamilySearch Full-Text Search. My searches didn't go well, but my frustrations apparently engaged people.
#9 was another Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post, this time about the best newspaper article I had found for my family history. One of the articles had a photo of me!
Coming in at #8 is one more Saturday Night Genealogy Fun story (are we picking up on a theme here?), with five "different" facts about family members. This gave me an opportunity to mention that my maternal grandfather supposedly played baseball with Jackie Robinson.
Who could have guessed that a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post would be #7? This one asked us to write about a day we had fun with genealogy, and it definitely was fun the day I found my great-great-grandparents' Russian marriage record.
The #6 post has nothing to do with Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. It was when I celebrated my lucky 13th blogiversary (along with Lisa Hork Gorrell, of course).
#5 is my post lamenting some of the recent changes I have seen occur at the FamilySearch Center at which I volunteer, and pondering what might be coming in the future.
For the #4 post we return to Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, when I listed my genealogy goals for 2024. I was trying to be cautious and optimistic at the same time.
And another Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge comes in at #3. This time it was the best research achievement I had had during the previous month.
The #2 post was when I noticed a problem with the year in the index of Russian records posted on JewishGen. I haven't seen any changes to the index since writing about that.
And the #1 post in popularity on my blog in 2024 was when I explained all of the things I am not doing with AI in genealogy for, you guessed it, Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. (And I'm still not doing them.)
So last year seven of the top ten posts were for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. That's still not surprising, not only because lots of people read Randy's blog but also because I was almost rebooting my blog after a few years of sparse posting.
I generally don't get a lot of comments on my posts, even those that are read a lot. The #1 and #2 posts on the popularity list were tied for the most comments this year.
Good morning, Janice! What is the name of your maternal grandfather that played with Jackie Robinson?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I want to say thank you for all your research and other things you do for so many people and organizations. You are fantastic, Cousin, and very much appreciated by me and so many others. Happy Anniversary of your Blog and have a magnificent 2025!
My grandfather is Abram Meckler, who lived in Brooklyn. And thank you for all the kind words!
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