50 Best Blogs for Genealogy Geeks

OnlineUniversities has released its list of the 50 Best Blogs for Genealogy Geeks, and The Family Curator is named in the News category. It's an honor to be recognized with many of my favorite bloggers and to know that we are all working together to encourage online connections between family historians.

OnlineUniversities list includes the following categories: General, Specific Research Projects, Libraries and Resources, and News. As a provider of news content and infomational features, The Family Curator was named in the News division.

I am pleased to see some new names in the list, along with old favorites, particularly in the General and Research Projects categories, and the list has helped me find several new blogs to add to my reader. Thank you Online Universities for the shout-out!

Family Curator Named to My Heritage Top 100

Thank you MyHeritage.com for including The Family Curator as one of your Top 100 Genealogy Sites for 2010. It is an honor to be named with so many of my blogging colleagues.

Of course, like many others, The Family Curator was inspired, coached, and supported by those "cornerstone blogs" that are TOP in any list of genealogy blogs such as DearMyrtle, footnoteMaven, Genea-Musings, Shades of the Departed, The Educated Genealogist, The Genealogue, We Tree, What's Past is Prologue (to name but a few).

In turn, I hope that The Family Curator inspires, coaches, and supports your family history efforts.

MyHeritage.com Top 100 Genealogy Sites

Above the Trees

AnceStories

Ancestors Live Here

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Apple’s Tree

Arlene Eakle’s Genealogy Blog

Bayside Blog

Before my Time

Betty’s Boneyard Genealogy Blog

Brenda Dougall Merriman

British Genealogy

Census Finder

Census Tools

Circlemending

Creative Gene

Crowe’s Nest

Cruwys News

Destination: Austin Family

Documenting the Details

Donna’s Genealogy Blog

Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories

Elyse’s Genealogy Blog

FamHist

Family, Friends and Neighbors

Family Oral History Using Digital Tools

Family Research

Find My Ancestors

Find Your Folks

Geneageek

Free Genealogy Tools

From Wilno to Worcester

Gena’s Genealogy

GenDisasters

GeneaBlogie

Genealogy Blog

Genealogy Canada

Genealogy Gems

Genealogy Guide

Genealogy Lines

Genealogy in New South Wales

Genealogy is Ruthless Without Me

Genealogy Reviews Online

Genealogy Star

Genealogy Tip of the Day

GeniAus

GeniTales

Genwriters

Greta’s Genealogy Blog

Gus’s Genealogy Blog

Henthorn Genealogy News

Jessica’s Genejournal

JLog

Kick-Ass Genealogy

Kinexxions

Lessons from my Ancestors

Life from the Roots

Little Bytes of Life

Mad About Genealogy

Midwestern Microhistory

Moultrie Creek

New England Genealogy

Nutfield Genealogy

Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Orkneyjar

Patten Project

Paula’s Genealogical Eclectica

Practical Archivist

Renee’s Genealogy Blog

Roots ‘n’ Leaves

Scotgen

Scottish Genealogy News and Events

SephardicGen Resources

Shauna Hicks History Enterprises

Shoestring Genealogy

Small-Leaved Shamrock

Smoky Mountain Family Historian

Special Collections and Family History

Staats Place

Steve’s Genealogy Blog

St. Vincent Memories

Taneya’s Genealogy Blog

The Accidental Genealogist

The Armchair Genealogist

The Association of Graveyard Rabbits

The Chart Chick

The Cobbold Family History Trust

The Family Curator

The Genetic Genealogist

ThePeerage

The Slovak Yankee

The St. Leon Family

ThinkGenealogy

TJLGenes: Preserving Our Family History

TransylvanianDutch

Twigs of Yore

Upstate New York Genealogy Blog

Wandering Genealogist

Walking the Berkshires

West in New England

Zalewski Family Genealogy

Moved to be Ancestor Approved

Thank you kindly, MountainGenealogy for presenting me with the Ancestor Approved Award. I did a little digging (ie. “googling”) and discovered that the award was initiated by Leslie Ann Ballou at Ancestors Live Here just a few days ago, 29 March 2010 to recognize blogs she appreciated and enjoyed. I have been reading Leslie Ann's blog for a while now, and it's great to see new bloggers jumping into the genealogy blogosphere with both feet.

The Ancestor Approved Award asks that the recipient list ten things you have learned about any of your ancestors that has surprised, humbled, or enlighted you and pass the award along to ten other bloggers who you feel are doing their ancestors proud.

 Here's my Top Ten List

1. Surprised to learn that  my mother's birth name was changed to her present name when she was 22 years old.
2. Surprised to realize Great Aunt Mercy's family tree is more right than wrong.
3. Surprised to discover my grandmother loved candy, so does my mom!
4. Humbled by Walter G. May's service in World War I.
5. Humbled by the Eliphaz and Minnie Kinsel's gritty determination to improve their fortune.
6. Humbled by Arline Kinsel's religious quest.
7. Humbled by how well my ancestors did with so little.
8. Enlightened by Mercy's genealogy research.
9. Enlightened to learn that Arline was a Harvey House girl
10. Enlightened by all my ancestors efforts to pave the way to the future.

Passing on the Ancestor Approved Award to

• Amy Coffin, WeTree
• Luckie Daniels, Our Georgia Roots
• Vickie Everhart, Be Not Forgot
• footnoteMaven
• Jenna, Desperately Seeking Surnames
• Kelly, Family History Fun
• Thomas MacEntee, Destination Austin Family
• Miriam Midkiff, AnceStories
• Joan Miller, Luxegen
• Sara Beth, Lessons From My Ancestors

The Proximadade Award

Graças a Msteri and footnoteMaven for nominating The Family Curator for The Proximadade Award.

Proximidade (from the Portuguese)

proximity, nearness, imminence, neighborhood, vicinity

Collins Portuguese-English Dictionary

This honor seems to be quite international, having been bestowed throughout blogdom on scrapbookers, blogging moms, and other creative types. Now it is making the rounds of genea-bloggers, and in my turn, I hereby nominate the following:

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Spellbound Blog, writing about archiving, digitizing, information, and a host of topics that are always timely and interesting.

Thomas MacEntee, Destination Austin Family, the go-to-guy for recipes, tech questions, crafts, and a good tale. Definitely, a Destination Blog.

Linda Stienstra, From Axer to Ziegler, a past Californian with non-stop adventures wherever she roams.

Lori Thornton, Smoky Mountain Family Historian, gathering local and family history for her thoughtful articles; and she's been at it since 2004!

Dawn Thurston, Memoir Mentor, inspiring and encouraging family history writers, and providing an outlet for their writing.

Becky Wiseman, Kinexxions, blogger extraordinaire sharing stories and photos that make me smile, laugh, and cry. Her goal-setting is nothing short of inspirational.

Back-at-You Msteri, Heritage Happens, because yes, "heritage happens" in the little everyday things of life, and I love the way you let your readers glimpse a Real Person behind the blogger.

And footnoteMaven, one of the original hostess-with-the-mostest of the blog-neighborhood coffee klatch.