52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Challenge Accepted!
I’m a member of several different genealogy groups on
FaceBook. You might not normally think
of FaceBook for genealogy but it’s a great platform for communicating with
other genealogists! While browsing the
posts of the Genealogy Bloggers group, I ran across a post from one of the
members talking about this blog challenge she was going to join called 52Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Someone else had
linked to their blog in the comments and I wandered over to her blog and found
the link to the original poster’s challenge post.
The premise of the challenge is to have a weekly blog post
devoted to a specific ancestor. The post
can contain anything: a research problem, photograph, stories or a combination
of anything focusing on that ancestor.
And it’s not just limited to blogs!
In her challenge post on No Story Too Small, Amy Johnson Crow encourages
people who don’t have blogs to post on FaceBook, send an email to family
members, write something in a journal or anywhere else for that matter.
After reading some of the blog posts I was inspired to participate in this challenge. My "blog fodder" for 52 Ancestors is going to be my husband's family, who I've just begun researching. I'm excited to be participating in the 52 Ancestors challenge. Why don't you take the plunge and join me? Anyone can participate in the fun!
