My blogging friend, Lynn Palermo at The Armchair Genealogist, {who I had the awesome pleasure of meeting at RootsTech last year} is holding her 2nd annual Family History Writing Challenge starting February 1st. It's a month-long program designed to really get you focused on your family history writing. She has a great line-up of guests as well as activities scheduled to help you get going in the right {or write ;) } direction with your family history writing. 

So check out her challenge. You can either participate in the challenge or watch from the 'sidelines'. Either way, you're sure to find something very helpful for your family history writing endeavors. =)

~Caroline

Blog awards are nice and flattering. They're even better when they are awarded to you for your blogging. It's nice to be appreciated and complimented.

Back in 2009-2010 many blog awards were all the rage, and believe me. They made their rounds several times over in the genealogy blogosphere, not to mention in many, many other blogging niches. Everyone was complimenting everyone, linking to everyone, and proudly posting their blog awards on their sites with links back to the creator of the blog award. Everyone was feeling pretty good...