One Lovely Blog Award

I have watched the One Lovely Blog Award doing the rounds over the past few weeks and have seen it travel from Australia to the US and now like the boomerang it has arrived back on my doorstep downunder.

This third nomination that I have received is very sweet because it comes from across the seas from someone that I didn't know was a reader of my blog. Thanks to Beverly McGowan Norman who blogs at Roots, Branches and a Few Nuts for this nomination. I really appreciate your nomination and am flattered to be in such esteemed company.

Here are Beverly's nominations - some geneastars I am familiar with and  some new to me bloggers are on the list.

1. Geneabloggers by Thomas MacEntee
2. Opening Doors in Brick Walls by Cathy Meder-Dempsey
3. One of my favorite food blogs, Plain Chicken by Stephanie Parker
4. Maybe Someone Should Write That Down by Kassie Ritman
5. Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog by Jana Last
6. The Legal Genealogist by Judy Russell
7. No Story Too Small by Amy Johnson Crow
8. Genealogy Circle by Cindy Freed
9. Conference Keeper and Ancestral Breezes by Jen Baldwin
10. Strange Alabama by Beverly Crider
11. GeneaDictionary by Jill Ball 
12. Branching Out Through the Years by Fran Ellsworth
13. Parallax View by Tony Proctor
14. Dispatches from the LP-OP by Lee Peacock
15. A Southern Sleuth by Michelle Ganus Taggart
16. (bonus) Worldwide Genealogy by a collaboration of authors

Here are the rules for this award: 

1. Thank the person who nominated you and link to that blog 
2. Share Seven things about yourself 
3. Nominate 15 bloggers you admire (or as many as you can think of!) 
4. Contact your bloggers to let them know that you’ve tagged them for the One Lovely Blog Award

Now as I have already been nominated and have shared the award I am going to direct you back to that post.

Basking in the Glory

On Friday in my post "Alona, you make me feel like dancing" I accepted  Alona Tester's nomination for a One Lovely Blog Award and nominated some other bloggers for the award.

Well, blow me down, today I find that I have another reason to dance. Queensland geneablogger, Alex Daw in a post on  the Family Tree Frog blog today nominated me for this award. In part Alex said "Yes, she's been nominated already but I can't not nominate her. But don't worry Jill you don't have to do this exercise all over again - just bask in the glory."

Thank you, Alex, for the nomination, I am humbled by your kind and generous words. Reading your seven things about yourself I find that quite a few apply to me - kindred souls?

Now I am off to aquaint my self with some of the blogs nominated by Alex, it's an interesting collection that is worth perusal.

Alona, you make me feel like dancing...

...a Genealogy Happy Dance.

Early this week Alona Tester, one of a small band of young enthusiastic Australian geneabloggers, nominated me for a One Lovely Blog Award. Thank You Alona for selecting my blog; knowing that a fellow geneablogger appreciates my efforts provides great encouragement to keep on blogging.

As I want to encourage some of those bloggers I love to read but whose blogs for one reason or another (they may be very new) do not appear in the Must Read list with which I am connected I will nominate them. Their blog addresses are in my Inoreader RSS feed and I love it when they post. I hope that you will take a look at these blogs and add them to your RSS feeds.

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Here are the rules for the One Lovely Blog Award:
• Thank the person that nominated you and link back to that blog.

• Share seven things about yourself – see below.

• Nominate 15 bloggers you admire – also listed below (or as many as you can think of!).

• Contact your bloggers to let them know you’ve tagged them for the One Lovely Blog Award.

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Seven (Bloggy) Things About Me

• I have been blogging since 2003
• I chose the nickname GeniAus years ago because I was frightened of  revealing my true identity on the evil internet
• My profile picture drawn by a grandchild seven years ago was also chosen because I was frightened of revealing my true identity on the evil internet
• I have been geneablogging since 2008
• I have a few dormant and practice blogs
• After 11 years as a Blogger girl I am getting to know Wordpress
• I have a new blog, geneadictionary.wordpress.com, that I hope you will read.

Now for some nominations (Ten is enough for me)

Please don’t feel under any obligation to carry this forward; I am just using this opportunity share some blogs that I enjoy.

Eliot Ball (No relation)  North Sydney Family History Group

http://northsydneygenealogy.blogspot.com.au/

Janelle Collins  Janelle's Family Addiction http://janellestree.blogspot.com.au/
Shelley Crawford  Twigs of Yore  http://twigsofyore.blogspot.com.au/

Carmel Galvin Library Currants  http://librarycurrants.blogspot.com.au/

GSQ Tapping your Roots @GSQ  http://gsqld.blogspot.com.au/

Sandra Lees Random Meanderings  http://invokinglibitina.blogspot.com.au/

Jenny MacKay Caddy Scrapbook  http://caddyscrapbook.wordpress.com/

Lilian Magill  The President's Page  http://bankstownfamilyhistorygroupinc.blogspot.com.au/

Kevin Matthews Tracing our History  http://tracingourhistory.wordpress.com/

Sharon Muffett  Gathering Dust  http://missmuffett.blogspot.com.au/

Society for One Place Studies Blog  http://one-place-studies.org/blog/

So, I can't count - that was eleven.    E N J O Y !