Last week I was nominated three times for the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award, by Catherine from Seeking Susan ~Meeting Marie ~Finding Family, Jennifer from Tracking Down the Family and also Crissouli from As They Were. This morning I also learnt that Jill from Geniaus had also nominated me. I feel very privileged and honoured that you have each chosen to nominate my blog for this award. You can read the conditions at the end of this post. One of the key things is to complete this sentence:
A good reader …. goes to the heart of the story, supporting the writer with comments and encouragement. A dialogue is entered into as the writer responds to the comments and from this community and confidence grow.
Based on this sentence I decided to make the award to those who’ve commented most regularly on my blog posts and entered into discussions. Luckily I had already nominated four of my most frequent commenters in my Blog of the Year 2012 Award last week (see here), so I’ve not repeated them here. I thank Catherine, Crissouli, Jennifer and Kristin for their continuous and enthusiastic support.
My plan had been to have a “Top 10” but in the end it’s a “Top 11” based on comment frequency and numbers. Thank you to all of you for your support, not just to me, but also to so many others – I see your names again and again on the blogs I also follow. Your own blog posts inspire and educate us. Thank you for sharing your personal and family stories with us all.
Julie from Anglers Rest: for her constant support of many blogs, not just mine, but also for the diversity and interest of her posts, sharing challenges and themes with all of us….Julie really is a team player. Her most recent challenge is the February Photo Collage Festival…why not join us?
Joan from Roots’n’Leaves has been commenting on my blog for a very long time, and I love her Scottish influences. Joan has been dedicatedly transcribing her ancestor’s journal and letters.
Susan from Family History Fun was especially supportive with my Beyond the Internet series including some from the Hawick Heritage Hub on the Scottish border. Susan writes some lovely posts about her families, with gorgeous photos, postcards and cards.
Sheryl from A Hundred Years Ago is another keen commenter. I really admire her persistence in posting daily stories based on her grandmother’s diary. She finds such unusual sources to illustrate the stories.
Prue from Becoming Prue shares an interest in German family history research with me and comments regularly on my posts.
Judy from Genealogy Leftovers and of course Genealogists for Families has been sharing her own knowledge for years in person, on the internet and in books. Her initiative in establishing GFF has led to $40,025 worth of loans being made, and created a true interest in helping others.
Frances from A Rebel Hand supports many bloggers with her comments and also writes a very intriguing blog about her Irish ancestor Thomas Delaney and other family history stories.
Fi from Dance Skeletons pretty much always makes me laugh, with her comments or her own posts, even though the content is serious and her discoveries interesting.
Jill from Geniaus comments regularly on my posts, as she does for so many others. She is the linchpin for Aussie geneabloggers.
Angela from A Voice for the Silver Irish posts about matters Irish, especially pertaining to history, and comments regularly on other blogs including mine.
Aillin from Australian Genealogy Journeys is another supportive commenter. I keep wondering if we’ll one day find a link between her Irish and mine, especially those O’Briens. Her Motivation Monday posts have impressed me no end!
Kerryn from Ancestor Chasing has been a regular commenter on my blog and her own blog has lots of interesting family stories.
Hmm, have you ever noticed the preponderance of women in the geneablogger community? Them’s the facts people, my commenters are mostly women, especially my “regulars”.
THE RULES
(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…”
Family history across the seas 
Thanks Pauleen! I don’t think I’ll participate in passing on the award though, because my regular readership is TINY. Unless I award it straight back to you. : )
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You’re very welcome Prue. Don’t worry about passing it on – much as I love all my blog reading it does absorb a lot of time which is why I so appreciate it when people make the effort to comment. I feel very special to be part of your “tiny” blog list 🙂
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And back at you, Pauleen I have pleasure in nominating you for the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award. You can find the details here: http://geniaus.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/how-sweet-it-is.html
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Sorry to be late replying to you here Jill -for some reason this one went into spam! Who knows why these things happen. Thank you for the nomination -I very much appreciate it but more than anything I appreciate your support over the life of my blog.
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Thanks Pauleen for including me among your nominations 🙂 I enjoy reading your blog and am happy to be part of your community of readers.
Thanks especially for your words of encouragement for my Motivation Monday endeavors 🙂
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You’re very welcome Aillin and it’s my pleasure to read your posts.
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Goodness, thank you, Pauleen, this is a great honour. Especially being in company with so many excellent blogs.
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You are so welcome Frances as I’m always impressed by your discoveries but you also support so many others with your comments, tweets etc.
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I’m lucky to be part of a supportive online community. We can all do with feedback, I think.
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We’re so fortunate with our blogging colleagues, especially those who respond to our posts. It’s always nice to know people are reading them and appreciating them.
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Thank you, Pauleen, for nominating me and especially for the lovely comments on my blog. I echo all you say about the great FH bloggiong community.
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Thank you Pauline for the nomination of my TWO awards! – much appreciated. I will write a post and pass along, and tie it in with Kiva.
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I was very pleased to nominate you Julie because you are a real team person -supporting so many people with comments but also introducing us to new ideas, books, people etc.
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Congrats and thanks, Pauleen. How nice to be nominated for something that’s so enjoyable!
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You’re welcome Fi…you give so many people so much pleasure with your blog.
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that is so sweet of you Pauleen, I feel honoured that you have included me. I’m afraid time hasn’t been available for me to contribute much lately but I love still feeling like part of our geneablogging family. Thanks so much for all you have taught me through your blog.
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It will be a shame that you won’t have as much time to blog as before but life takes different twists and turns. No doubt you’ll be back when life permits and we’ll all be pleased to “see” you. Enjoy things in the meantime.
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Thank you for nominating A Hundred Years Ago. I’m honored that you think it is worthy of an award. I’m in the company of some really excellent blogs. (I discovered to couple wonderful blogs as a result of this post,)
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I was very pleased to nominate you Sheryl…glad you found some new ones too.
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Pauline. You have no idea how thrilling it is for me that you select my humble blog for a nomination. Yours is the standard I aspire to and I so eNjoy reading all that you pOst. Thank you so very much! Angela
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You’re very welcome Angela and I assure you that your blog posts are always inspiring and informative. However I do appreciate the compliments 😉
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