My Trails into the Past

It's good to revisit the past year, to reflect on what worked well and what to improve on. This past year on writing posts for this blog, I kept a spreadsheet of the posts and in total, I wrote 155 posts across two blogs: this one and Mam-ma's Southern Family . In order to do some statistical analysis, I learned I need to create a couple more columns with some codes to better help with sorting and counting. Hand counting across 150 plus entries in a spreadsheet is difficult. In all, I wrote 138 posts in this blog, which fell into four categories: 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks: 38 Genea-pourri: 51 Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: 40 Family Stories: 10 The top-viewed posts by theme this past year were: From 52 Ancestors meme: Air: George J. Gorrell Served in the Army Air Corps During WWII Scary Stuff: Building the Bridge Over the Vesle (France) Winter: Freak Snowstorm in Southern California on Virginia’s 5 th Birthday Different Language: Swedish & German Spoken at Home Quite the...