Monday, September 21, 2009

R.I.P. Dream-of-Genea

I am not actually retiring this blog, but rather submitting this post to the 81st edition of the carnival of genealogy: "Your Genealogy Blog's Obituary"

The 'I Dream of Genea(logy)' blog died earlier this morning at about 5:30am in a private sector of underused disk space in the Blogger.com hosting facility. It was just a little over one year old at time of death and cause of death has not yet been determined although it is highly likely that the young blog died of boredom and neglect by its owner. Proper archiving and burial will take place later this evening and the final resting place will be at the owner's external backup HD device.

'I Dream of Genea(logy)' was born on July 29th, 2008 with two back to back posts. In it's first few days the blog was still trying to find a personality and a direction and eventually settled on the "personal family history" geneablog type with a smattering of software and book reviews and several blog carnival posts. Later, the blog turned into a sort of memorial for family members who perished in the Holocaust.

You could feel the excitement of the blog in it's first few weeks of life. New connections were made with many accomplished geneabloggers and family members started sending in stories and memorabilia. In it's first full month online, August 2008, the blog had it's most fruitful month with 20 posts!

Some of the blog's shining moments included the following posts:
In it's short life, the young blog has achieved several of its intended purposes. A recent email from one of my father's cousins says it all:
We met your father and mother and the rest of the family at the Simchoni wedding.
We all "blamed" you for the renewed connections and communications between the many members of the family. Good work.
Even though the blog will be dearly missed by all direct visitors, RSS readers and email subscribers, it is survived by a gigantic (10K+) Geni tree, countless new Facebook family friends and a RootsMagic 4 database that will hopefully continue to grow in the future.

Sweet dreams 'I Dream of Geneal(logy)' and rest in peace.
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6 comments:

  1. Thomas MacEnteeSeptember 21, 2009 at 6:15 PM

    Very creative obituary and I really enjoyed reading this - to the point of laughing out loud several times!

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  2. Randy SeaverSeptember 21, 2009 at 7:06 PM

    Well done - a funny and accurate, and sad, obituary...but it doesn't have to be an obituary, does it?

    Jasia should have done this at April fools Day time, eh?

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  3. Abba-DadSeptember 21, 2009 at 8:53 PM

    Thanks, Thomas and Randy! It was fun writing it.

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  4. JasiaSeptember 21, 2009 at 9:20 PM

    OK, I didn't exactly laugh out loud but I do have silly grin plaster to my face! Very well done and a nice humorous take on a rather sobering subject. Excellent... keep on writing!

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  5. Family CuratorSeptember 25, 2009 at 10:38 PM

    Here you are, and there you go. Great Obit. Hope you stick around, anyway and prove yourself to be a teller of Tall Tales.

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  6. Abba-DadSeptember 25, 2009 at 11:40 PM

    Thanks everyone for your comments. I am definitely going to stick around now :-)

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