--- title: A vote of confidence description: Yesterday afternoon, sometime after 2 p.m., Vita Brevis marked a major milestone in the life of a blog with its one-millionth page view. image: https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vita_brevis_banner-Apr-21-2023-05-08-48-8110-PM.jpg --- # [Vita Brevis A resource for family history from AmericanAncestors.org](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # A vote of confidence [July 07, 2016](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/07/vote-of-confidence) [News](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/news), [Critical Analysis](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/critical-analysis), [Genealogical Writing](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/genealogical-writing), [Spotlight](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/spotlight), [A Genealogist's Diary](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/a-genealogists-diary), [Research tips](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/research-tips), [Family stories](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/tag/family-stories) [Scott C. Steward](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/author/ssteward) [![vita_brevis_banner](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vita_brevis_banner-Apr-21-2023-05-08-48-8110-PM.jpg?width=1100&height=288&name=vita_brevis_banner-Apr-21-2023-05-08-48-8110-PM.jpg)](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/vita_brevis_banner-Apr-21-2023-05-08-48-8110-PM.jpg)Yesterday afternoon, sometime after 2 p.m., *Vita Brevis* marked a major milestone in the life of a blog with its one-millionth page view. Since it officially launched on 10 January 2014, with Robert Charles Anderson’s [Deep Puritan Roots](http://vita-brevis.org/2014/01/deep-puritan-roots/) post, *Vita Brevis* has published almost 650 installments[[1]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/07/vote-of-confidence#_ftn1) by 73 bloggers, with categories ranging from American History (there are 258 blog posts in this area) to Genealogical Writing (89) to Technology (30). The tags associated with various blog posts form an interesting word cloud, with Critical Analysis, Research Tips, Object Lessons, and Brick Walls taking priority, although the vaguer Spotlight tag deserves mention as well. I blush to say that, as of my previous post, I have written the most entries at *Vita Brevis*, with 144. Alicia Crane Williams will break 100 soon – she is at 98 today. Zachary Garceau has written 35 posts, Penny Stratton 28, Chris Child 26, and Lindsay Fulton 22. And what do we write about? We write about what interests us, as researchers, as professional genealogists, as editors, as archivists. Sometimes the topic is our own research interests; sometimes we offer tips from our experience as a beginning, an intermediate, or an expert researcher; and sometimes we describe an aspect of our work, here in Boston or elsewhere as part of an NEHGS education program.[[2]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/07/vote-of-confidence#_ftn2) What we are always trying to do, as promised in an early blog post, is to write “short posts on research methods – applicable to a variety of genealogical subjects – as well as posts on results. Like a mosaic, these posts will, in time, form a new collection for the genealogical researcher to explore.” Now, after two-and-a-half years, we have reached a milestone suggesting that our readers have found content here that keeps them coming back – for which vote of confidence, many thanks! ### Notes   [[1]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/07/vote-of-confidence#_ftnref1) This post, allowing for some pre-publication blogging, is actually the 650th. [[2]](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/07/vote-of-confidence#_ftnref2) Perhaps it’s easier to show it, by reference to some year-end posts that review 2014 ([Part 1](http://vita-brevis.org/2014/12/the-year-in-review-1/) and [Part 2](http://vita-brevis.org/2015/01/the-year-in-review-2/)) and 2015 ([Part 1](http://vita-brevis.org/2015/12/2015-year-in-review-1/) and [Part 2](http://vita-brevis.org/2016/01/2015-year-in-review-2/)). ### Share this: - [mailto:?body=https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/07/vote-of-confidence](mailto:?body=https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/07/vote-of-confidence) - - - More - - ![Scott C. Steward](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported%20images/f0ca00236a2eb95f2a42a6692ce1ee9c%3Fs=96%26d=identicon%26r=g.jpeg) ## About Scott C. Steward Scott C. Steward has been NEHGS’ Editor-in-Chief since 2013. He is the author, co-author, or editor of genealogies of the Ayer, Le Roy, Lowell, Saltonstall, Thorndike, and Winthrop families. His articles have appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, NEXUS, New England Ancestors, American Ancestors, and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, and he has written book reviews for the Register, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.[View all posts by Scott C. 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