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 52 Ancestors 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. This 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 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!