I have been blogging for nearly eight years and have 1667 posts in total in that time. I have not been posting regularly the last year and a half but continue to have around 100 pages read per month. Surprisingly I have not lost any followers. I plan to get back to blogging daily once again when my current project of writing up my personal family history starts to take up less of my time. My own story was 900 pages with hundreds of images. I decided that my children/grandchildren are unlikely to go through the 40 picture albums we have (my husband has indexed these so really easy going through our 50 years of marriage). We both have a good collection of pictures from our childhoods and those of our parents. Then there was the advent of electronic cameras and that explosion in pictures (also indexed by my husband (16 years worth and still collecting)). Putting hundreds of these pictures into my story will mean that in the future when they are having heavy snow or something like that the stories might be pulled out and read! My parents' stories are just under 300 pages each and my grandparents' stories run around 100 pages each. The great grandparents vary between 30 and 70 pages each as lots of documents for them since they are all but one born and raised in England (some coming as teenagers with their families to Canada). I have just one Canadian line - my mother, her father and his mother - with all the rest, as mentioned, from the British Isles. The volume of documents available to me is amazing and my blog shares some of this information with the world but especially my one name studies - Blake and Pincombe (my parent's surnames). My audience (top ten) United States 55769 Germany 35242 United Kingdom 21958 Canada 20479 Russia 13471 France 10915 Australia 5450 China 4975 Ukraine 4959 Sweden 2145 I have 68 followers (about 40% are Blake descendants from around the world). I get five or six requests a week that come directly from those blog posts. I always publish my Blake and Pincombe quarterly newsletters on the blog. I have known cousins in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States. My husband has about 30% German ancestry and some of the work that we have done jointly is there. The occasional email about that research and it is generally from Germany. The Russian and Ukranian is possibly my comments on my own mtDNA which is found quite commonly in Ossettia (H11a2a1) but is quite ancient to the British Isles dating back to the Neolithic period but probably wintered at Ukraina during the last glacial maximum. I have had the occasional email asking about H11 in my capacity as administrator of the H11 project. My summaries on this project are blogged and linked to from the project. China and Sweden are a mystery. The American Blake family is quite large and diversified coming from all over the British Isles and I suspect that half of my regular readers are from the United States. I have in the past done quite a few posts on the French Canadian ancestors of my son in law and receive a number of enquiries from people living in France surprisingly. Hope that helps. -- Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp BA PLCGS Website: http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/elizabethmain.htm Blog: http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/ Guild of One Name Studies #4600 (Blake, Pincombe) The Surname Society #1004 (Bedard, Dumoulin, Gregoire, Prevost, Blake, Pincombe, Knight, Rawlings, Cheatle, Butt, Buller, Taylor, Gray, Farmer, Lywood, Rew, Routledge, Welch, Coleman, Lambden, Arnold, Peck, Rowcliffe, Siderfin, Cobb, Beard)