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One Lovely Blog Award

Thanks to Australian Genealogy Journeys I have been presented with the One Lovely Blog Award. Thank you Aillin for this honour! 




The rules for accepting the award are:

  • Accept the ward, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who granted the award and their blog link. 
  • Pass the award on to 15 other blogs that you've newly discovered.
  • Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Thanks Aillin for this award. I haven't been a genealogy blogger for very long (6 weeks in fact) but have blogged in other capacities on and off for several years. My greatest problem with starting a blog was in fact finding a name for my blog. Once I'd worked that out I knew I had plenty to say.

Here are my choices:


  1.  Irish Genealogy News  
  2. Caro 's Family Chronicles
  3. Moonee Valley Family and Local History 
  4. Irish Wattle Blog
  5. Australian History for Genealogists 
  6. Cork Genealogist
  7. The Mad Genealogist
  8. Irish Genealogy: Hep! The Faery Folk Hid My Ancestors
  9. London Roots Research
  10. Family History Across the Seas
  11. Winging It
  12. Grow Your Own Family Tree
  13. Michelle's Heritage
  14. My Family History Research
  15. Genimates - thanks for encouraging me to start my blog      
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  1. A O'BrienMarch 12, 2011 at 8:12 AM

    You're welcome Sharon :)

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  2. GeniMatesMarch 20, 2011 at 12:43 PM

    Back at you, Sharon.
    I have nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. Read about it here: http://genimates.blogspot.com/2011/03/one-lovely-blog-award-x3.html

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