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Wow! I just hit 2 and
a half million views to my blog!
When I started my blog back in 2009 I didn’t think anyone
except my Mom would read my stories. At
first, that was true. Then, slowly I
began to see comments from complete strangers on my blog and I remember
thinking “Why are these folks reading my stories?” “Who are these people?”
Well, it’s been almost nine years and I’ve had a lot of fun
entertaining people I don’t know and making lots of cousin connections along
the way. Thank you to all my readers, and especially to everyone who has made a
cousin connection, sent email, or commented on my blogs.
I’ve posted over 2750 stories including:
342 Weathervane Wednesday posts
312 Surname Saturday posts
394 Tombstone Tuesday posts
My all time most popular post was called “A Favorite
Christmas Gift! You Might Like One, Too!” published way back in 2012. It still receives over one hundred hits every
month, and more near Christmas for some strange reason. As of this week it has received over 225,000 total views. I think Pinterest has made this post so popular. I rarely use Pinterest, but someone posted it there and it went viral for a while. You can read that post at this
link:
I can also tell that there are a lot of Mayflower descendants
reading my blog. A story I wrote about
visiting the church where Stephen Hopkins was baptized in Upper Clatford,
Hampshire, England is one of my top ten blog posts. It has received nearly 3,500 hits since
October 2017. Just last week the New
England Historic Genealogical Society contacted me to use one of my photos from
this same blog post in an upcoming issue of American
Ancestors magazine. All you Hopkins
descendants will recognize the photo! Click here for the story about the picturesque church at Upper Clatford:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/along-pilgrim-trail-stephen-hopkins-of.html
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/along-pilgrim-trail-stephen-hopkins-of.html
A story I wrote about visiting the church where Mayflower
passenger John Howland was baptized in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, England has
received over 2,200 hits. https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/along-pilgrim-trail-john-howland-of.html This story was recently surpassed by a story I wrote about
his son’s homestead in Plymouth, Massachusetts (almost 2,500 hits since just 19
March 2018 and getting at least a dozen or more every day this month). https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/jabez-howland-house-plymouth.html It seems that Howland descendants are almost
as numerous as the Hopkins descendants!
Lately, my stories about the 300th anniversary of
the founding of Nutfield, New Hampshire by the Scots Irish in 1719 have been
extremely popular. I’m hoping that some of the upcoming stories about these
Ulster Presbyterian settlers hit the top ten most read stories in the upcoming
year.
Thanks for reading Nutfield
Genealogy!
Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Another Blogging Milestone!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 11, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/another-blogging-milestone.html: accessed [access date]).
Thanks--again!--for all you do! We'll be coming out next year for Old Home Days in Londonderry, my first visit to New England. Perhaps I can say hello in person.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember how or when I found your blog (and it was probably in 2011 when I started blogging), but I'm so glad I did. Keep up the good work!
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