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My great aunt Ruth (Laurie) (Stedman) Smith lived to be 99 years old. Funeral cards can be a great resource. I’ve even seen photos on some funeral cards as early as 1923.

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This year I thought I’d offer my readers a weekly blogging prompt. Each week the blog post will focus on a particular state. The post can be about a particular individual or family who lived in or was connected in some way to that state. Sometimes there will not be a personal connection to the state. In this case find a genealogy resource for that state to talk about and highlight instead. Follow along with this series and post to your own site. If you choose to follow along, please link to (http://www.hiddengenealogynuggets.com) or mention the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets website.

The first week will run from 1/6/2013 – 1/12/2013. All weeks have been stated in the order they became a state. The last two weeks are for Washington DC and US Territories.

Week 1 : Delaware
Week 2 : Pennsylvania
Week 3 : New Jersey
Week 4 : Georgia
Week 5 : Connecticut
Week 6 : Massachusetts
Week 7 : Maryland
Week 8 : South Carolina
Week 9 : New Hampshire
Week 10 : Virginia
Week 11 : New York
Week 12 : North Carolina
Week 13 : Rhode Island
Week 14 : Vermont
Week 15 : Kentucky
Week 16 : Tennessee
Week 17 : Ohio
Week 18 : Louisiana
Week 19 : Indiana
Week 20 : Mississippi
Week 21 : Illinois
Week 22 : Alabama
Week 23 : Maine
Week 24 : Missouri
Week 25 : Arkansas
Week 26 : Michigan
Week 27 : Florida
Week 28 : Texas
Week 29 : Iowa
Week 30 : Wisconsin
Week 31 : California
Week 32 : Minnesota
Week 33 : Oregon
Week 34 : Kansas
Week 35 : West Virginia
Week 36 : Nevada
Week 37 : Nebraska
Week 38 : Colorado
Week 39 : North Dakota
Week 40 : South Dakota
Week 41 : Montana
Week 42 : Washington (state)
Week 43 : Idaho
Week 44 : Wyoming
Week 45 : Utah
Week 46 : Oklahoma
Week 47 : New Mexico
Week 48 : Arizona
Week 49 : Alaska
Week 50 : Hawaii
Week 51 : Washington DC (District of Columbia)
Week 52 : US Territories including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

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I thought I’d take a few moments to go over some Hidden Genealogy Nuggets highlights in 2012.

Visitor Statistics

Hidden Genealogy Nuggets utilizes Google Analytics to track the users to it’s website and blog. The following statistics are some highlights for 2012

• More than 10,000 unique visitors visited Hidden Genealogy Nuggets Website.
• Visitors came from all 50 states and the District of Columbia
• There were visitors from more than 100 different countries
• The top three countries other than the USA were the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia

Top 10 most popular Blog Posts

Here are our ten most popular blog posts in order for this year.

• Free Newspaper Archives Online and Offline
• Newspaper Genealogy
• Civil War Ancestors
• Photo Genealogy
• Google Books & Genealogy
• Geneaology Genology Geanology
• Photo Genealogy – Part 4
• Photo Genealogy – Part 2
• Thrifty Thursday – Virginia Memory

Top four most popular Non-Blog Pages

Here are our top four most popular non-blog pages on our website this year.

• Hidden Genealogy Nuggets Home – A Free Family Tree Search Site
• Family Tree School Project Ideas
• Hidden Genealogy Nuggets Research Database
• Family Tree Fun

Social Media Impacts

For those of you who haven’t used social media to enhance your reach to potential users of your blog, I would encourage you to try. In 2012, Hidden Genealogy Nuggets established a routine of posting a link to our blogs on Facebook. We also have also been posting links to our blog posts on Twitter and on Google Plus. In addition to links to our blog posts you can also find unique photos and information directly on our Facebook page, Twitter or Google Plus.

Here are some highlights regarding our social media presence.

• Our Facebook page has received more than 100 likes.
• We have over 450 Twitter followers
• We have more than 100 people who are following us on Google Plus
• More than 1,000 visits to Hidden Genealogy Nuggets can be attributed to social media referrals

……To like us on Facebook visit the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets Facebook Page.

……You can follow us on Twitter Follow @JimSanders14

……Or you can follow us on Google Plus Hidden Genealogy Nuggets on Google Plus (Jim Sanders)

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