Family Tree Magazine has just announced its list of the “40 Best Genealogy Blogs” and ProGenealogists is honored to be chosen for the “How-To” category. Our team of authors sends acknowledgment to everyone who was nominated in recognition of all the hard work that goes into maintaining a blog. Special congrats, too, to all those whose blogs made the cut to the Top 40!

Family Tree Magazine readers nominated their favorite blogs and then votes were solicited beginning in November 2009. Finally, this month, the votes were tabulated and the winners were just announced.

Thank you, Dianne Haddad, and the rest your Family Tree Magazine staff for all their hard work in compiling your list of the 40 Best. We know it is a time-consuming process, having put together our own list of Top 50 Most Popular Websites in past years! Another, and very special thank you, goes out to our dedicated readers. Thank you very much for your votes. Make sure to send us feedback about what you’d like us to write about next!

Below are some of winners, but you can find the complete list at Top 40 Genealogy Blogs. Please make sure to check out the blogs on this list! If you find some that strike a chord with you, add them to your list of Internet genealogy reading. The amazing thing about genealogical research is that you can never run out of new things to learn and there is always another ancestor to find

All-Around

• Creative Gene by Jasia Smasha
• footnoteMaven by footnoteMaven
• GeneaBloggers by Thomas MacEntee
• Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver

Corporate

• Ancestry.com Blog by various authors

Genetic Genealogy

• The Genetic Genealogist by Blaine Bettinger

How-To

• The ProGenealogists Blog by various [ed. totally awesome] authors
• Family Matters by Denise Barrett Olson
• Genealogy Guys by George G. Morgan and Drew Smith
• Genealogy Tip of the Day by Michael John Neill

(The complete list here)

Thank you, readers and FTM!