footnoteMaven and the Wizard of Oz

You blog, you wonder if anyone reads, then along comes a month like August. First, the September 2008 issue of Internet Genealogy Magazine spotlighted my companion blog, Shades Of The Departed, in a Net Notes article written by Donna Pointkouski of What's Past Is Prologue.

Then Alltop.com., from my hero Guy Kawasaki, listed both footnoteMaven and Shades as the Best of the Best on their digital magazine rack in the Genealogy Category.

Now, World Vital Records' Family History Bulletin has named footnoteMaven as one of the Top Genealogy Blogs. They have put me in exceptionally good company. Listed along with the Maven are Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, DearMYRTLE, 24/7 Family History Circle, Genealogy Insider, Genea-Musings, Ancestry Insider, Family Matters, and The Genealogue.

Thank you World Vital Records for recognizing me and for putting me in such auspicious company. I really liked the scholarly writing comment.

Check back often at World Vital Records' Family History Bulletin as they update the genealogy community on the latest and greatest genealogy blogs and websites.

So where does the Wizard of Oz come into this? Well, I honestly feel like the all-seeing, all-knowing Oz just before someone pulls the drape and finds out that behind-the-curtain is a computer, an internet connection, an office filled with stuff, and the Maven still wearing her slippers (and they're not Ruby) at ten in the morning. Not quite the picture of the "Top."




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Illustration courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery. Pen and ink drawings for The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum.(created ca. 1901)