I was surprised and delighted to learn yesterday that this blog was named as one of the Family Tree Magazine 40 Best Genealogy Blogs!

Many thanks to those who have gone out of their way to help me regain access to my Facebook account after the stephendanko.com domain was labeled abusive by the folks at Facebook.

Once upon a time, in a land far away in the land of the setting sun, there lived a Geneablogger who ruled a small but peaceful kingdom on the shore of a beautiful bay. One day, while walking through a green, green meadow on the outskirts of the kingdom, a little bird named Auntialias flew up to the geneablogger’s ear and twittered, “Geneablogger! Geneablogger! Did you know that Facebook thinks your blog is abusive? I tried to follow a link on Facebook to your site and this is what I saw!”

Janice Brown may be lost in the puckerbrush and her blog may have disappeared from the blogosphere but, back in October 2006, she was probably the first of the Genea-Bloggers to write a post about her Genealogical Superpower and create a Genealogical Superhero avatar – “History Woman”.

Dean Richardson’s January 1st post “What’s Your Genealogical Superpower?” was picked up by Randy Seaver for “Saturday Night Genealogy Fun” and then Sheri Fenley (aka The Extraordinary Flying Condor) upped the ante and posted about “Super Heroes and the Powers That May Be” and included a cool avatar. Donna Pointkouski (aka The Extraordinary Splintery Stick) has also reported on her Genealogical Superpower in “Donna’s Picks” and included an avatar. Likewise, Tina Sansone (aka Gtownma Census Superhero)wrote about her Genealogical Superpower at “Census Superpower”, Midge Frazel (aka Super Midge) wrote a post at “Super Midge” and Cindy Bergeron Scherwinski wrote “What’s Your Superpower?” (although she seems to have misplaced her cape).