1. Hezekiah Wyman and the Legend of the White
Horseman (over 1200 page views and
counting since I wrote this story for Patriot's Day in April 2011!)
This story
took place on the day of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, when Hezekiah
Wyman taunted the British regulars who were retreating back to Boston. They called him “Death on the Pale Horse” and
probably a lot worse names, too!
2. Treasure
Chest Thursday – Publishing a Book for my Blog (almost as many hits as #1)
This post shows how I used
Blurb.com to produce a hardcover book version of my blog, and why I preferred
Blurb over other self publishing book companies.
3. Canobie
Lake Park, Salem, New Hampshire
Canobie Lake
Park opened in 1902 as a trolley park to attract folks to use the trolley
system on weekends, and it is still open!
I think many of the page views on this post are due to folks Googling
for information for a visit to this amusement park, more than actually wanting
the history.
4. The Carole Brinkman Unsolved Murder Mystery
This story
was inspired by a bit of research I did for my cousin, who had bought a 1960s camera
with a roll of undeveloped film. He
asked me to research the owner so he could return the film, and I was shocked
to find out it belonged to a young lady who had been murdered! Many of the comments I received are from
townspeople who remembered the murder.
5. The
Midnight Ride of William Dawes
Did you know
that Paul Revere did not set out alone on the night of 19 April 1775? There were actually almost 100 riders out
that night, but William Dawes accompanied Paul Revere for a large part of his
ride. I’m glad to see the name “William
Dawes” showing up through Google searches.
6. My
Mayflower Passenger Ancestors
This is a
compendium of lists written by other Geneabloggers of their Mayflower
ancestors, published the week of Thanksgiving 2011. I hope to make this an annual post, so watch
for it again in 2012.
7. The
Face of Genealogy
This is
another compendium of blogger posts of those
who participated in providing lovely family photos, old and new, in response to
an offensive article published by the website LA Weekly about the Southern
California Genealogical Society Jamboree in June 2011. I love how the blogging community responded
with this lovely tribute. Thank you
everyone!
8. Thanksgiving
Proclamation 2010
In 2009 and
2010 I posted a photo of New Hampshire’s Governor Lynch on the event of his
signing the annual Thanksgiving Proclamation.
The New Hampshire Mayflower Society requested a proclamation for 2011,
but it was left off the docket in the rush of changing the date for the New
Hampshire Presidential Primary date in November. This must be the reason why so many folks
searched out another proclamation post this year, but it never appeared! We’ll try again next year!
9. The
New England Geneablogger Bash
This was my
post with photos for the first ever New England Geneablogger Bash, which was
held by a small group of brave bloggers on the eve of Hurricane Irene.
10. A
Visit to Plimoth Plantation
A post with
many photos of the living history museum at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It’s difficult to NOT get good photos here,
and I’m sure it was popular with internet searches and kids.
Stay tuned
to see what ends up being the most popular posts next year! I’m always surprised by the posts that end up
being hits with my readers. If you didn’t
see your favorite story here, please leave me comment! I’d love to know what you enjoyed reading at
Nutfield Genealogy in 2011.
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Copyright
2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
You had a great year! Enjoyed reading these posts.
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