Celebrating 11 Years of Olive Tree Genealogy Blog!

Happy belated 11th Birthday to Olive Tree Genealogy blog! I missed the actual birthday on February 9th but am pretty excited to announce that I've been publishing this blog for 11 years now! My first year (2003) I only write 12 posts, averaging one per month. That seems almost ludicrous to write one post a month now that I publish every day.

In fact I set a goal in 2010 to write a daily blog post. I didn't quite make it that year but am really happy to say that I've surpassed my goal for the last 3 years.

Every year I do a little better, write a little more. Here's the number of blog posts I've published for each year since 2003.

►  2013 (379)

►  2012 (407)

►  2011 (423)

►  2010 (316)

►  2009 (263)

►  2008 (192)

►  2007 (114)

►  2006 (17)

►  2005 (86)

►  2004 (26)

►  2003 (12)

My most popular blog post was about the release of the 1921 Canadian census with 4000 reads. Another popular one was the post I wrote about how to understand your DNA results. It had over 2000 reads! 

Sharing Memories is the most popular page on Olive Tree Genealogy blog with over 10,000 views of the prompts I post to encourage genealogist to record their own memories before they are gone forever. 

My readers come from all over the world which totally amazes and thrills me! Here's a list of the countries and the number of times someone in that country has read one of my blog posts. Pretty amazing and I am so grateful that you care enough to read this blog! 

United States	873587
Canada	178467
United Kingdom	63959
France	36491
Germany	27222
Russia	24916
Australia	18913
Ukraine	5784
China	4765
Netherlands	3948

Without my wonderful readers there would be no point to this blog. And so I thank you for allowing me to write and most of all for reading and commenting on my posts! Please join me while I blow out the 11 candles on my cake to celebrate another happy year of genealogy writing.