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The Janice Brown Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence – Thank you, Flipside

A few weeks ago I was honoured to receive the Janice Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence from Linda Hughes Hiser of Flipside. The award was inaugurated just this past May by Mississippi (USA) blogger Terry Thornton of Hill Country of Monroe County. In his post One Blogger’s Guide Through the Puckerbrush: The First Puckerbrush Blog Awards for Excellence (no longer online) Terry explained that he wanted to honour the work – and in particular the writing skills – of blogger Janice Puckerbrush of Cow Hampshire. Puckerbrush’s blog seems to be inaccessible now, but judging from the quality of Hill Country I’m sure her writing must have been something very special.

Today, I’ve spent some time at Hill Country and I suggest you do so too. In particular (from the most recent posts) I recommend A look ahead at HILL COUNTRY. I think this article gives us some great insight into the kind of solid, methodical thinking that goes into building a quality blog. It’s not that most of us don’t do this type of thinking, but most of us don’t share the process with other bloggers. So thank you, Terry!

Now I’d like to discuss the person who gave me this award – Linda Hughes Hiser of Flipside. Regular readers of A Canadian Family have seen Linda’s work in the first 2 issues of A Festival of Postcards (Wheels and Main Street) but her blog is really worth an in-depth visit if you want to see other examples of good family history writing.

To me, family history writing is a genre unto itself – often a kind of wonderful, but sometimes chaotic mix of history essay,  personal anecdote, journal writing and process log. My own  ”family history writer’s voice” is still emerging and I find that Hiser’s is one of those I’d like to emulate.  For an example of this, see her recent article about her grandfather George Henry Hughes, where she combined family information and anecdotes with photographs and artefacts and the research she did on the company where he worked.

In the weeks to come I’ll be passing this award along to ten deserving bloggers.

Thank you Flipside!

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