Genealogy Blogs I Have Recently Added

I had not added any genealogy blogs to the list I keep in a long time, and earlier today, I seven more blogs. A few of the blogs I learned about from GeneaBloggers and Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs Series, and for the other blogs, I either learned about them through a couple of these new genealogy blogs.

The blogs I have added are:

• Barking Up the Wrong Tree
• Bushwhacking Genealogy
• DNAeXplained
• The French Genealogy Blog
• Southwest Michigan Genealogy & Local History
• The Legal Genealogist

I will add more genealogy blogs as I learn about them, and probably will remove those blogs that have been inactive for over a year. If you have any suggestions for any blogs on genealogy or history, please feel free to leave a comment with a link to the blog, and I will add them to the list. Enjoy!

Congrats!

I just want to congratulate all the genealogy bloggers who made it onto the Family Tree Magazine's Top Genealogy Blogs list.

(I didn't make it into the list, but maybe I will next year.)

Places On My Bucket List ...

Over the past few days, a meme started by Larry Lehmer of Passing It On has been going around the genealogy blogs. In his post, Larry asked, "What places do you want to visit before dying?"

So, what three places do I want to visit before I die? Well, here are three ancestral areas that I want to visit:

1. Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania - Well, I want to be able to visit and do research in that county as my ancestors lived there. (Of course, I don't know how long and in all of the townships which they lived.)
2. United Kingdom and Ireland (Great Britain) - I'd actually like to visit, so that I can do research this time and remember the visit. (Yes, I visited, but I was a baby at that time.) As my ancestors lived in various places in Great Britain, it is easier for me to just list the names of the countries.
3. Germany - I have been to Germany before (and I remember this trip!), but I haven't been to the locations where my ancestors lived. As I don't know all of the locations where my ancestors lived in Germany, I can only list Germany at the moment.

Well, those are my three places. I would list more, but I was only supposed to list three places for this meme. (Of course, there are other places I would like to visit that are not related to my genealogy.)

My Cloud of Words ...

Over the past couple of days, other bloggers have been posting clouds of words from their own blogs. I've decided to do so myself, and so here is my word cloud for my blog:

added american ancestors ancestral ancestry antrim appears area article ballymena blog born carnival central check church civil column com comments connections contest copyright county creative date depict diary eastern eastman edition email european family familysearch float gene genealogist genealogy groups heritage history index information interesting ireland irish jasia jessica john journal labels library link lisa lived local married michigan miriam moment morales nancy news newsletter online partition past pennsylvania people pm poll posted powered project records reminder research roots scenes scottish smith society states stories subscribe think thoughts topic town tree united vital war west western writing written yahoo year

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Top Ten Genealogy Blogs List Posted!

I just want to briefly mention that Kimberly Powell of About.com:Genealogy has posted a list of the top ten genealogy blogs. Of course I wasn't the first to post about this list. Randy Seaver, Jasia and Terry Thornton all blogged about this article before me, and I don't believe I can add any more to my post than what they have in their posts. Even though I am not on the top ten list, I still thought it would be nice to mention that a list has been published, and I just want to say, "Congrats!" to those who did get on the list.

Added A Book List

Earlier today, I added a list of history books that I am currently reading. Needless to say, I will be updating this list in the future. I also plan to add a list of history books that I have recently read. Hopefully, I'll have that set up in a couple of days.

You can find this book list at the bottom of the page, just under the copyright notice.