These were
my favorite posts for 2011. Most of my
favorites are on this list because they turned out to be such fun to research,
but some of them were my favorites because they generated so many
comments. I love getting comments and
making contact with readers, especially if we end up having “cousin connections”
or similar research interests.
If you don’t
see your favorite story on this list, leave me a comment! I’d love to know what you enjoyed reading
this past year at Nutfield Genealogy.
Heather’s 2011
Favorites
1. – 4. My Dad’s
College Paper on the Massachusetts Underground Railroad
This almost
wasn’t even a post. It started as a
simple comment on Facebook when I said that I had found my Dad’s 1954 college
report. I had more than a dozen people
ask me to post it online. I thought that
was an interesting idea, and took on the challenge of transcribing the report and also
doing some of my own research on the people Dad had contacted in 1954. I posted
a bit of genealogical serendipity in Part 4.
5. Five Kernels of Corn for Thanksgiving
AND 6. Five
Kernels of Corn- An Update
I had fun
researching the origins of this little story passed on to Mayflower
descendants, and then I had even more fun researching why it was only a myth
thanks to comments left to me by my Mayflower cousin, Ginny Mucciaccio, former
Governor of the Massachusetts Mayflower Society (she is also my cousin through
the Wyman Family of Woburn, Massachusetts).
7. Veteran’s
Day Transcription Project
In 2010 and
2011 I started transcribing the veteran’s memorials and honor rolls in
Londonderry for Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day. Here I invited other genealogy bloggers to
join me, and I had a great compendium of participants from six states and the
United Kingdom. By transcribing the
honor rolls, we make the name available to search engines on the internet, and
thus descendants and family members can find their veterans’ names. This is a project I hope to continue in 2012.
8. Rebranding
History
This story
was inspired by a visit to the grand re-opening of my ancestor’s house in
Lexington, Massachusetts, which turned out to be a “rebranding” of the museum
with a completely different focus, not on the family who lived there, but on
the British Regulars who attacked their town and tried to burn down the home. It received several good comments, lots of
email, and inspired two blog posts by Bill West and J. L. Bell. It was
all good commentary, for and against, representing different points of view on
a controversial subject. Thank you to
those who participated!
9. Draper
and Maynard Sports Equipment
This was so
much fun to research. I took a simple
little story told by my uncle, about his visit to a relative’s factory when he
was a little boy. There was a lot of
history behind his little memory!
10. The National
Archives – They read my Blog?
This was a
follow up to a post I wrote about going to Washington DC to visit
the National Archives to see a specific document first hand- only to be turned
away. Surprise, surprise! They liked the first post enough to write
back to me, and to send me a fine hi-res photograph of the document in
question. It was a win-win situation for
everyone! The link to the first post is
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/04/national-archives-good-news-bad-news.html This was the post that I spoke about on the GeneaBlogger Talk Radio Show. Thanks, Thomas MacEntee!
Stay tuned
tomorrow to see the posts that were actually the most popular stories with my
readers on my blog this year, according to the statistics provided by
Blogger.
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Copyright
2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
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