Blogs 6th Birthday –

I cant believe that the blog has just turned 6 years old. Its been a long road and from humble beginnings. From its start, when I just wanted to records interesting stories I came across for my own interest to now, with over 5800 registered readers on the mailing list. I am just so pleased that so may people enjoy these stories as much as I do. My criteria has always been, ‘If I think its interesting, others may as well’. To make it not so much of what I like, I have had lots of ‘visitor posts’ in the last year, showcasing the wonderful family stories and photographs in private collections.

Visitors to the site are from the following places in order:
Australia
United States
United Kingdom
New Zealand
Other

Google analytics tells me that there during this time there have been:-

402,205 unique page views

Im amazed, it just seems to ‘self generate’. Today the average number of post is 3-4 a week with sometimes a few more or less. The posts are never planned and just seem to ‘turn up’.

Some other mile stones:-
The site is now archived by ‘Pandora’ through the National Library of Australia.

There are a total of 849 stories on the blog.The top three most read posts for 2019 were:-

1. Kalgoorlie Hospital – the early records:- https://bit.ly/2kwXaqs
2. The Day Dawn Christmas Tragedy – http://bit.ly/2lDI3fj
3. The Kangaroo Dog :- http://bit.ly/2kngx5y

I hope that you will continue to join me either as a regular subscriber http://eepurl.com/No6o5 , or an occasional visitor, or following me on the Facebook page where I share all the stories. The Facebook page currently has 11,721 followers.

To celebrate, during the next week, we will be having  history book giveaways of four copies of ‘Golden Threads’ by John Terrell,  log onto our Facebook page for details:-   https://www.facebook.com/OutbackFamilyHistory/

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Moya Sharp

Owner at Outback Family History

My name is Moya Sharp, I live in Kalgoorlie Western Australia and have worked most of my adult life in the history/museum industry. I have been passionate about history for as long as I can remember and in particular the history of my adopted home the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Through my website I am committed to providing as many records and photographs free to any one who is interested in the family and local history of the region.

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