Twelve Years of Genealogy Research

I've been blogging about something since May 2002.

• In March of 2007 I wrote about my great grandfather Barney and his claim he was born in Dublin on March 17th.
• A friend read my post, and sent me a census record with my great grandfather on it.
• I had no previous idea what was online.
• On April 16, 2007 I wrote my first two blog posts concerning research

In 2007 I wrote 131 blog posts.
2008: 263
2009: 323 (almost, but not quite, one per day)
2010: 293 (I began dating the woman of my dreams in May)
2011: 165 (We became engaged)
2012: 114 (We were married)
2013: 90 (We bought a home)
2014: 50 (We adopted twin 1 year old boys)
2015: 54
2016: 86
2017: 59
2018: 23

My research continues; I've just been blogging less.

• Six years ago, the last time I looked at database statistics, my database had slightly over 2800 individuals, and my wife's had 340.
• Today: There are over 4700 individuals in my database, and over 1700 in my wife's database.

I'm very pleased with the discoveries I have made, and I'm confident I will continue to make more. I missed my annual St. Patrick's Day post this year, but you can read all my past ones here.