2021 and 2020 in Review

Happy New Year 

There's already a lot of good genealogy news for 2021:

— free access to Ancestry Library Edition continues
— free downloads from TNA continue.
— RootsTech goes online and free.
— a Canadian series from Legacy Family Tree Webinars (with almost all women presenters!)
— on 20 July, a Legacy Family Tree Webinars presentation by Alison Hare of her acclaimed talk "The Time of Cholera: A Case Study about Historical Context."

I'll not revisit the horrors of 2020, and I'm not just referring to the leadership in the USA. 

Rather, here's a look back at the year on Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections.

Do you visit the site between 9 and 10 am on Tuesdays? According to Google Analytics, there are more visitors in that hour of the week than any other. For all days the 9 - 10 am timeslot is the most popular. 

Folks clicking links in an email, it usually arrives around 9 am, account for about two-thirds of all page views. The email comes through Feedburner. You can subscribe partway down the left-hand column at https://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/.

You may be interested to know:

Over 80% of visits are from desktop and laptop computers, about 16% from tablets.

Chrome is the most popular browser used to access the site.

80% of visits are from Canada, 12% from the USA, 5% from the UK, 1.4% from Australia and 0.7% New Zealand.

The pages receiving the most views in 2020 were:

1. O/T: Longest Time - Quarantine Edition

2. Ontario Township Papers Online

3. Newspapers.com FREE Canadian access

4. YouTube: Family Secrets Revealed in Free Archival Canadian Newspapers Online: Provincial Initiatives

5. Ontario Land Records and ONLAND

For many weeks the Sunday Sundries posts are the most popular. Don't miss them.

One of the positives for me personally in 2020 was the invitation to speak on Canadian resources for MyHeritage on Canada Day. 

MyHeritage highlights of the year, including the photo colourizing and enhancing facilities, are in this blog post.

Findmypast CEO Tamsin Todd posted this New Year message.

Ancestry did not appear to have posted a New Year message, possibly as President & CEO Margo Georgiadis departed the company at the end of 2020. She did post this on 25 November.