The readership of this blog had grown steadily over its three years of existence, so today I thought I’d list the five most-read blog posts in the event that new readers haven’t discovered them. Combined, these posts have been read more than 32,000 times. Have you read them yet?
Reading hard-to-read gravestones. I outline the aluminum foil trick I used to make illegible gravestones readable, like magic. With over 16,000 pageviews, this is my most-read post hands down.
Tracking progress. I created a spreadsheet that allows me to tell at a glance which important records I’ve identified for each direct-line ancestor and which I still need to track down.
Are you organized enough? In this popular post, I bring my experience as a professional organizer to the question, “What does being organized really mean?” And then I take you step by step through the process of becoming organized enough.
Free family fan chart. Thank you, Google, for making this post so popular. Martha Stewart did a post a few years ago on building a family tree that offers a free, downloadable family fan chart. This posts links to it. And that link is still live.
Are yo
u backing up your genealogy data? I advocate a belt-and-suspenders approach to back up. In this post, I relay the sad story of a friend whose (non-genealogy) files were deleted by Dropbox.
Thank you for this post, I have loved reading these posts and even have the Tracking Progress post in my favourites to help me refer back to it regularly. Having taken on a big project with my family tree I thank you for help with the organisation of it through your blog
Marion, thank you so much for your kind words! I’m so glad you find this blog helpful.
Not sure if it is just my FB but it is always the same posts (mainly the ones mentioned above) that are posted to your FB feed, it would be nice to see some of your newer posts linked there if that is at al possible?
Unfortunately, FB decides what it thinks you want to see and I can’t control what they put in your feed. I have indeed linked to newer posts…if you go Organize Your Family History’s wall, you can see them. (http://www.facebook.com/organizeyourfamilyhistory) You can also sign up for the RSS feed or subscribe to the blog via email (those links are in the footer of this page) if you want to make sure you don’t miss a blog post. Thank you for caring, Marion!