Following this blog - Changes

Until today people could sign up to follow this blog by email. Unfortunately the service that managed this function, Feedburner owned by Google will be discontinued in July. 

Feedburner advised that we download our list of subscribers and we have done so. Thank you to those folk who have been our ACTIVE followers. We hope that you will resubscribe using the new service, follow.it.

We have added a new icon to this blog that will allow anyone who wants to keep following by email. To subscribe to the new service, follow.it , please click on the green FOLLOW Icon at the top the left hand column of the LakeMacFHG blog.

1. Click on this icon

Having clicked on that icon you should be directed to this URL: https://follow.it/lakemacfhg?action=followPub where you will be required to enter your email address then click on Follow.

2. Enter your email address and select Follow

You will then be directed to confirm your subscription using the email account with which you subscribed.

3. Confirm your subscription.

Hopefully this process will deliver a notification to your email address whenever a new post is published on the LakeMacFHG blog.

Thank YOU

The free Blogger platform that hosts this and many other blogs provides some statistical information about blog visitors.

Some time yesterday this blog, which endeavours to relate stories about Lake Macquarie people, recorded a milestone, we had our 5,000th visitor in just ten months. Even if only half of the visitors who call by our blog read a post that's a significant interest in the history of the people of the Lake.

We, at Lake Macquarie Family History Group, thank all our readers for contributing to the success of our blog.

Image - Carey Bay, Lake Macquarie

Entering the Blogisphere

As a committed geneablogger I am always championing the benefits of blogging.

Since becoming President of The Lake Macquarie Family History Group last August I have been hoping to set up a Group blog so I was delighted when the Committee supported my proposal to create this blog at our last Committee Meeting.

I see the blog as an integral part of our communication strategy for both promoting our Group and preserving its history and as a forum for sharing stories of the people who lived and worked in Lake Macquarie. I am hoping that our members and people from our local area will embrace the blog and share their stories of life on the Lake.

Jill Ball 

President 

Lake Macquarie Family History Group

From the Archives: Display at Swansea 2001