Nomination : Wonderful Team Member Readership Award

Thanks to Jill Ball at Geniaus for nominating me for this award for commenting regularly on her blog.

I have to admit not replying as regularly to blog posts as I should. I know we are all excited when someone does reply to a blog post. This has spurred me into hopefully being more diligent in my responses to other blog posts. Usually I go through some of my feeds on Feeddler on my iPad before I get out of bed. This doesn't allow me time to respond. Perhaps I need to alter my blog reading time to after tea!

Now for my nominations to those who comment often on my posts or in the case of one nomination alert me to what I have to admit was sloppy research.

1. Fi from Dance Skeletons whose last comment was one I wholeheartedly agree with. I'm starting to believe the first result of good research is...more questions! I hope you can find some answers but I think there's always something else out there.

2. Cass from Family History Across the Seas whose comments are always encouraging.

3. Boobook from Backtracking who has a few different blogs, for alerting me to an error I had in a blog post (caused by quick research and not even realising that there were 2 Lismores in Australia - the fact that the article was from Victoria should have twigged with me.)

Thank you to everyone who reads this blog. I'm certainly pleased I am a member of the genealogy blogging community.

RULES OF THIS AWARD(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 andleave a comment on their blogs to let them know about the award;

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