Since we’re on a process break—though I promise I’ll soon
return to my story about
the Beanery and its residents—I thought I’d interject
a column today in thanks to some kind recognition.
If you do much reading around the genealogy-blogging world,
you’ve surely noticed the recent flurry of awards recognizing writers for
various aspects of their online writing. Some of those writers, last week, were
kind enough to include A Family Tapestry
in their honors. For this, I am most grateful—you’ll never know how timely this
boost has been!
Getting Up There With
the Stars…
In the spirit of the award, she then turned around and
passed the award along to three other bloggers: Jen of
Ancestral Breezes, Gini of
Ginisology,
and—wait? Is that? No, it couldn’t be! Oh, blush!—this very blog,
A Family Tapestry.
While I’m enjoying having some fun with that nomination—and believe
me, Jana, I could use the smiles right now—I do appreciate the vote of
confidence, and as you did, I would like, in turn, to pass the honor along.
The “rules” for this award are simple:
1 Select the blog(s)
you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award
2 Write a blog post
and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum
number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.
4 Let the blog(s) you
have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with
them
5 You can now also
join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’
Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider
audience
6 As a winner of the
award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award –
and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start
collecting stars…When you begin, you will receive the “1 star” award. Every
time you are given the award by another blog, you can add another star! There
are a total of 6 stars to collect.
A Great Reader Is…
No sooner had Jana kindly awarded me with this designation, when
another simpatico blogger must have sensed the need to
send some kudos my way. Mariann
Regan of
Into the Briar Patch named
me, along with several bloggers I admire, for the
Wonderful Team Member Readership Award.
I like what the originator of this award wrote:
“As bloggers, we are
also readers. That is a part of blogging as listening is a part of speaking.”
Here are the requirements to participate in passing this
award along:
(i) Don’t forget to
thank the nominator and link back to their site as well;
(ii) Display the award
logo on your blog;
(iii) Nominate no more
than fourteen readers of your blog you appreciate and leave a comment on their
blogs to let them know about the award;
(iv) Finish this
sentence: “A great reader is…”
In my opinion,
a great
reader is someone who can read between the lines, picking up the nuances to say
what has yet to be said by leaving comments that make each blog post what it
was really meant to be.
Without the kindness of those who read A Family Tapestry, generously adding their comments as co-creators
of this dialog, it would be a chilly and quiet corner of the cyberworld here, indeed.
An audience breathes life into the actors. Writers may not stand in front of
their readers like players on a stage, but the dynamics remain the same.
While I’m thankful for
each of you who read and comment at
A Family Tapestry—in case you’ve missed
it, I did post my thanks to each of you who shared the conversation with me in
2012
here—I’d like to pass along special thanks to a few fellow bloggers who
have been most encouraging.
First, of course, I want to thank my first inspiration and
role model in the quest to save orphan photos, “Far Side of Fifty” who writes,
among other blogs,
Forgotten Old Photos.
Of course, Far Side plainly declares that she doesn’t “do awards,” so I can’t
officially nominate her. But I
can at
least give her an honorable mention! Her work is certainly worth that. And
while she doesn’t accept awards, she does explain, “award me a comment!” If you
have never visited her blog, please take that opportunity now. You won’t regret
it—and may find yourself joining her 1,696 followers.
I’m grateful for these bloggers who have partnered with me
over the past year, and wish to pass this award on to them as well:
Be a Dear
Someone else must have decided to make it a threesome. Along
with Jana and Mariann, Michelle Taggart decided to bestow some genealogy link
love, too. Michelle, I know you are busy preparing for the Salt Lake Institute
of Genealogy this week, but when you get a chance to catch up on your blog
reading, I want to say “Thank you” for giving me the
Liebster Blog Award.
The Liebster award is one way of showing appreciation for
the “dearest” of the blogs in my reading list. Like other awards, this one
comes with its own set of requirements of those nominated:
1. Link back to
the blog who nominated you
2. Nominate 5 blogs with less than 200 followers
3. Let nominees know by leaving a comment at their site
4. Add the award image to your site.
Here are my five nominees for the Liebster Blog Award. Each
of these are bloggers whose work and ways are particularly appreciated:
Collecting the Stars
Perhaps you recall that, at the beginning of this post, I
mentioned the Blog of the Year 2012
award, but failed to mention just who
I intended to nominate. There’s a reason for such coy maneuvers. No, I’m not
shy—even though there are so many inspiring blogs out there.
It’s just that, before I could get busy with my response,
yet another blogger popped up and bestowed the same award. And yes, since we
can collect those stars, I can now display two! Thank you to Sharn White of
Family Convictions—A Convict Ancestor for nominating
A Family Tapestry!
In turn, I’d like to pass along this Blog of the Year 2012 award to some of the writers who inspire,
motivate, and challenge me. Please join me in recognizing the contributions of
the following bloggers to the genealogy and family history blogging community:
If anyone is not familiar with any of these publications,
please take the time to stop by and visit the links above. It will be well
worth your time!
Thank you again, Jana, Mariann, Michelle, and Sharn, for
your kind nominations!