Michele, You are a person after my own heart. I always mention the leaders in our field when doing presentations. I was always impressed with my husband when he would be able to tell me about the leaders in his field and how they impacted it. I look forward to your blog to learn more about the individuals you (we) choose. One thing I think that will be hard is to keep the list short. Depending on the area of genealogy I am discussing, different people seem to be the leaders. If we are talking about blogs, webinars, writing, sourcing, researching, the FHL, the institutes or even certain topics such as adoption, land records, military records, regional or state specific, each "leader" has different strengths that we need to recognize. Thanks for doing this; I, for one, will be very interested and plan to list your blog in my handout for my upcoming presentation. Margie in Washington State On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:55 PM, < transitional-genealogists-forum-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: From: "Michele Lewis" <ancestoring@gmail.com> Subject: [TGF] Who's Who To: "TGF Mailing List" <transitional-genealogists-forum@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <00ea01cddf29$4f86f430$ee94dc90$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" My blog is geared toward newbie to intermediate researchers. I want to write a blog post on who's who in genealogy so that they will become familiar with some of the top researchers in the field. I want to limit the list to about 10 or 12. I would like y'all, if you would, email me privately to tell me who all you think I should include. I don't want to accidentally leave someone out. I know that I can't include everyone but if I need to go a little over 10 or 12 I will. I want to write a very short paragraph on each person stating what their area of expertise is. Thanks for your help J Michele Ancestoring@gmail.com