Archive for 'Around the Web' Category
Would You Care to Comment Challenge
19 October 2008Kathryn at the Looking4Ancestors blog challenged the Genea Bloggers to visit ten different blogs in a week, then leave comments. I was half way up for the challenge. I visited ten blogs, left comments, then forgot to make not of where I had been. What a dorkenstein! I bet the Genea Blogger Gnome is better [...]
Getting to Know You, Getting to Know Your Blog Roundup
4 October 2008Terry Thornton of the Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi blog challenged genealogy bloggers to tell their readers a bit about themselves and their blog. Then they were asked to highlight their best, breeziest, and most beautiful articles or posts. You can read my response if you like: Getting to Know the Research Journal.
Many bloggers [...]
A Visit from the Genea-Blogger Gnome
23 September 2008What a surprise it was to find that the Genea-Blogger Gnome had visited my blog today! Here is the little guy:
His owner, Terry Thornton, let him out for the day and he came over to the Research Journal. Be sure to click on the Gnome so you can see his home, the “Hill Country of [...]
55th Carnival of Genealogy Posted: Show and Tell
19 September 2008The 55th Carnival of Genealogy has been posted at Creative Gene blog. The theme was Show and Tell.
There are many articles to explore. My contribution was titled I Cherish My Ancestors’ Sugar Plantation Contracts. Be sure to check out all the contributions.
Thanks to Jasia for putting together the carnival!
Reading and Commenting on Genealogy Blogs
14 August 2008One of my challenges from the Genea Blogger Games was to find a new genealogy blog, then leave a comment. This seemed like a pretty easy thing to do until I realized that their were a gazillion genealogy blogs!
At first, I roamed the web aimlessly. I thought I might find a blog related to [...]
Genea-Blogger’s Blog Networks on Facebook
13 August 2008I have marked off another item completed on my Genea-Blogger Group Games challenge. I have signed up for five genealogy blogger networks on Facebook. I only needed to do one, but were several that piqued my interest. I have been a fan of a couple of these blogs for years and it [...]