Blog of the Year Award

Many thanks to Catherine of Seeking Susan ~ Meeting Marie ~ Finding Family for nominating the Geniaus blog for the“Blog of the Year 2012 Award”.  Catherine wrote to me "Thankyou so much Jill for sharing so much knowledge and info... especially of the technological kind. As well as the daily E-News. It therefore gives me much pleasure to nominate you for the "Blog of the Year 2012" which Pauleen gifted to me."

Getting recognition from one's peers is special; thank you Catherine for your nomination of Geniaus  I am humbled and thrilled. 

Catherine nominated some of my favourite blogs as well as some I didn't know. You can see the full list here.

Nominating blogs for this award is difficult as there are so many fabulous ones out there in the blogisphere. My five nominations for today ( I make no apologies for the Australian bias) are:

• Diary of an Australian Genealogist - Shauna Hicks - A chatty journal with news, views and a slice of life
• Family History for You - Sharn White - Thoroughly researched articles
• The Family Recorder - Audrey Collins - Fascinating and quirky stories from the Mother Country
• Geneabloggers- Thomas MacEntee - The metablog for the genealogy world
• 'Genealogists for Families' project - Judy Webster - Details the progress of a brilliant geneaproject

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.

3. Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award –http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4. Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them

5. If you choose, you can now 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… For further information on collecting stars, just click on the link provided in Rule 3.