I’m back on track for the Blogging 101 course, although probably not quite able to feel comfortable with all the tasks.
Today’s task was to work on my ‘About’ page. I have looked at my information on this page encapsulated in one paragraph. I have always been a very private person, and have never liked talking about myself, so found this task rather difficult. I feel I have captured the spirit of this task in this one paragraph, as it tells how I got interested in my family history, which I’m actually blogging about.
I also need to see if I can add a ‘widget’ or two to my blogs. Must to go back to the ‘how to’ instructions for that one. Our instructors, or team leaders are very helpful and patient, which is just as well with technologically challenged students such as myself.
However, I have tried to follow the course section by section, and have started a new blog from the beginning at http://nolamackey2.wordpress.com/ for my ‘local history’.
I have developed a deep interest in the history of the Clarence River District, in northern New South Wales over many, many years,although we have no family connections here. For nearly fifty years I have been researching, collecting documents, and writing about the area, and have published numerous books on various topics.
I have written much more about myself on my ‘about’ page on my new blog, but probably need to edit that down and rearrange it all, as it is a bit like a CV, which we were advised to avoid. I will look at that over the next few days, to see if I can get that down to succinct paragraph or two, too.
As well as sharing our own family histories on my original blog, I now plan to share some of my huge local history collection, on this new blog, starting with some stories from women’s perspective, concerning World War I.
These blogs I plan to present as a serial, over the next few weeks or so.
It is the story of two sisters, who found themselves trapped ‘Behind Enemy Lines’ in Berlin at the beginning of World War I.
See you all somewhere in cyberspace soon.
Nola Mackey - Family History 
You’ve done really well blogging, with and without Blogging 101. Interesting you’ve decided to expand to a second blog… When I first started blogging almost 3 years ago, I thought to have 3… and earlier this year consolidated into one. I think About pages and widgets are useful to give context 🙂
Thank you for your encouraging comments. I decided on two as I need to keep things separated in my head, as my family, and all the local stuff which does not relate to my families. I’m trying to get disciplined enough to do one blog in each- every day. That is over 700 in the year! Aiming away too high perhaps, but if I could get even half that number a big accomplishment to reflect on in a years time…. and what a lot of family history done.