• Judy Webster, absolutely deserves this award. Judy’s project of the Genealogists for Families Team is such an inspiration of sharing, kindness and team work. 
• Allin at Australian Genealogical Journey’s – I love Allin’s motivational Monday posts and as I read them every week usually with a pen in hand to jot down any thoughts that come to me!
• Alona at Gould Genealogy & History News – Alona was the host behind the A-Z Family History Writing Challenge which ran last year. I still have a few draft posts to complete and then plan to post them.
• Frances of Rebel Hand – Frances posts are always full of interesting facts and is the author of Rebel Hand, Nicholas Delaney 1798
• Kristin, of Finding Eliza – For being such a supporter and commenter of Anglers Rest and for writing such fascinating and well researched posts.

THE RULES

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them

5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…