Almost a year ago, I did a poll of Organize Your Family History readers to find out what types of articles are most useful to you. 101 people responded, which was fantastic.

Since then, readership has grown and I thought it might be time to check back with you. I’m interested in knowing what types of articles you would find interesting to read here. The poll is identical, but please do respond even if you responded a year ago.

Thank you so much! I am so grateful for the input I get from readers of this blog. You’ve helped me immeasurably and I want to write posts that help you in return.

When I started Organize Your Family History in 2012, the home page contained full posts, four to a screen. Without clicking, you could read the four most recent blog posts. You could click back, one screen at a time, and read four posts at a time.

Last September, I changed it to post excerpts. When you land on the home page, you can see the first paragraph of the six most recent posts, but you have to click on the header of each one to read the whole post.

I’ve been thinking about it and I can’t decide which is better, excerpts or full posts. So I thought I’d ask you, the readers, to weigh in. I created a simple poll and I’m hoping you’ll take a second to let me know your preference.

 

Thanks in advance expressing your opinion!

The majority of those expressing an opinion favored full posts, so I’ve changed the settings. Thank you!

WordPress was kind enough to send me an end-of-the-year statistical profile of Organize Your Family History today. And it included a link to last year’s report as well.

The report likes to make the stats fun:

• Last year, if the blog were a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, it would take three trips to carry as many people who read the blog that year (which is not very many people, in blog terms)
• This year, if the blog were a concert at Sydney Opera House it would take about seven sold-out performances for that many people to see it

In actual numbers  that means that last year (which, to be fair, was half a year, since the blog debuted in June) the blog had 860 pageviews. This year, it’s been viewed over 18,000 times. That’s real growth, and for that I’m grateful. I really appreciate your reading and recommending the blog.

I’d like to make Organize Your Family History as useful to you as I can, so I created a little poll to get some input on the type of content that would be most useful to you. Feel free to select as many topics as you’d like.

 

I really appreciate your expressing your opinion and I thank you in advance!