Would you please…?
The Legal Genealogist would greatly appreciate a minute of your time, and a vote in this blog’s favor.
Because I really don’t mind losing.
There are some great blogs that are also in the running.
I just don’t want to lose to a blog about … agriculture?!
Here’s the deal.
As happened last year, this year as well, I got an email from the editor and publisher of the ABA Journal. That’s the prestigious magazine of the American Bar Association. “Congratulations are in order,” it said. “Your blawg has earned a spot in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100, our 8th annual list of the best in blogs about lawyers and the law.”1
And, sure enough, there I am, in the Niche category, for the second year in a row.
That’s pretty cool!
Maybe not quite as cool as being linked to by In Custodia Legis,2 the blog of the Law Library of Congress, which is one of my favorite law blogs3 and which, by the way, is also nominated, in the Legal Research/Legal Writing category.
But it’s still pretty cool.
The problem? There is this one big hitch.
In addition to the “glory” of being put on the list, there’s a “beauty contest” voting aspect to this. Each category is going to have a winner. And at the moment, The Legal Genealogist is — embarrassingly — running well behind a blog about agriculture law.
I mean, seriously? Agriculture? I wouldn’t mind one bit getting outvoted by readers of blogs4 I really think genealogists ought to be reading too — blogs like In Custodia Legis (in the in the Legal Research/Legal Writing category) or Defrosting Cold Cases (in the Criminal Justice category) or Lowering the Bar (in the For Fun category).
But, in the Niche category, to be outvoted by agriculture???
So a favor, please.
Take a minute. Click on the image above or this link and go vote for The Legal Genealogist in the Niche category.
You do have to register (reason: apparently ballot-box stuffing in the past5) but it’s quick and painless and then you can vote, just once, for any 13 blogs you like.
(No, you can’t vote for me 13 times.6 So use your other votes for other great blogs like In Custodia Legis in the in the Legal Research/Legal Writing category or Defrosting Cold Cases in the Criminal Justice category or Lowering the Bar in the Just for Fun category.)
The Legal Genealogist is in the Niche category, and the voting ends this Friday.
It takes no more than one minute to vote.
Just one minute.
Really.
Trust me.
I’m a genealogist with a law degree. Would I lie to you?
Okay, okay. So would I lie to you about that?
Well… to avoid being outvoted by agriculture…
SOURCES
- I didn’t invent the term. Really. It’s defined as “a blog that focuses on legal issues and stories.” Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (http://www.m-w.com : accessed 14 Dec 2014), “blawg.” ↩
- See Clare Feikert-Ahalt, “Legal Curiosities: What I Am,” In Custodia Legis, posted 2 May 2012 (http://blogs.loc.gov/law/ : accessed 14 Dec 2014). ↩
- I don’t think I can bring myself to call it a “blawg.” There’s just something… well… grating about the term. ↩
- Have I mentioned yet that I still can’t quite wrap my head around the term “blawg”? ↩
- No joke: “Q. Why do I have to register to vote in the Blawg 100? A. Because we experienced significant voting irregularities in the past, we opted to require voters to register beginning in 2009.” “Frequently Asked Questions About the Blawg 100 and Voting,” Blawg 100, ABA Journal (http://www.abajournal.com/ : accessed 14 Dec 2014). Go ahead. It made me laugh too. ↩
- Sigh…. ↩
Sure, I’ll vote for you! My only question is: What is a blawg??? *smiles*
AARRRRGGGHHH!! (Thank you! 🙂 )
Hey, wait, I love agriculture.
I love FOOD. But hey… agriculture law???? C’mon…
I just voted. Good luck!
Thank you!
I’m pleasantly surprised at the array of subjects in the niche category. But hey; if we can blog about dead people then anything is fair game! My vote has been cast. Good luck, Judy.
Thanks, Tim!
Voted (though as a farmer’s son I feltjust ever so slightly disloyal not voting for the agricultural one….)
It’s agriculture law; that helps a little, doesn’t it??? (Thanks!! 🙂 )
You got my vote!
Thank you!
Just voted. Looks like another 15 or so voters would catch you up. Come on readers — it really did take less than a minute to help!
Thanks so much, John!
Added one (1) vote to your total. I’m not from Chicago, so the vote early, vote often rule does not apply.
Thanks so much!
As both the salad (it had Romaine instead of lawn clippings), and the Asparagus at dinner last evening were delights to the taste buds, The Texas Agriculture Law Blog (I am in Texas, after all) seemed to be the appropriate choice for my vote this morning. However, as I’ve actually read your blog (Blawg?!?), in the end I voted for you.
Oh, wait! I see it now. They’ve inserted ‘LAW’ into ‘BLOG’. How clever …
Thanks, Jerry! 🙂
Judy, I tell everyone that your blog is a MUST READ. You always write fabulous posts that we can all learn from. So I just registered and have sent one more vote your way.
Thanks very much!
I voted – for you. And now you seem to be ahead (I was the 180th vote, and the Agriculture blog was at 162). But here’s my question: When I registered to vote, it asked me to read the terms and conditions. I did not. Do you think that is okay?
Thank you! (And well, you know I’m going to say you should have read all the terms and conditions, but… 🙂 )
You are right. I should have. 😉
🙂
As a (female) forester, who is digging up her family tree, I have found a good big of overlap in forest trees/forestry and family trees. I greatly appreciate your insights into the laws that affected our ancestors at the specific times that they lived in a particular place. However, discussions of proposed laws that may prohibit a land owner from harvesting trees in danger of falling on roads or other property just because they are “big trees” are important, too(please note: big does not equate to old in trees).
I can’t choose!
Just another perspective.
Traitor! 🙂 (Fact is, I like to eat too, but c’mon… losing out to an agriculture law blog?!?)
We vote for you because we love your blog and don’t want you to lose out to agriculture! Hope you win, we’re rooting for you! As of now, you’re way ahead so hoping it stays that way!
Thanks, Kim!
Lots of good blawgs in those 15 lists, Judy. You’re in very good company, eh? But, really, genealogy trumps agriculture law, in our book.
Keep writing. Please. (thank you)
Thanks so much, Celia!
Just voted for you and you are now well ahead of Texas Agriculture.
Thanks, Craig — and whew…!
Looks like you have a few friends. You’re up to 258 votes.
What a relief! (At least I have a fighting chance if the Ag boys mount an attack now!)
Done and done, I pushed the tally to 301. I’m also glad to see Lowering The Bar nominated in a category different from yours (after all, genealogy is fun, too!), so no need for me to suffer the anguish of divided loyalties. I did like learning that there’s a law and wine blog, though…(don’t worry, I’m still on Team Legal Genealogist!)
BTW, I share your contempt (in the non-judicial sense of the word) for the word “Blawg”. 🙂
Thanks, Sean!
I was happy to vote for you! By the way – Lowering The Bar is a hoot! The man who was told he really should have attached some sort of ground wire to his brain is priceless.
See the things you can learn from my blog — even what other blogs to read! Thanks for your vote, Pat!
OK now Judy I voted for you, just remember that us Tennesseans expect a pint of Moonshine for a vote. I will be waiting. good luck, and if you win I will be expecting 2 two pints of Moonshine.
C’mon, man, in Tennessee, you MAKE that stuff!! (Thanks! 🙂 )
Be very careful Judy… with a line of farmers in your tree stretching back to the misty fields of medieval Essex, it might not be wise to be so cavalier about agriculture…don’t be surprised if one midnight soon you awaken to…
“rattle…clank….rattle…I am the ghost of farmers past…”
If that’s the worst ghost I have to deal with out of OUR family, I’ll be lucky! 🙂
The seeds of the “Legal Genealogist” have spread across the internet it seems, while “Agriculture Law” has been caught in a drought!
We’ll have to see in January, Stan — the ABA has now taken the vote totals off (they do that every year) and it’s anybody’s guess who’s ahead!
Vote duly cast. And further deponent sayeth not.
Thanks, Dick!
The Die is Cast.
Tell me again, what is the crime of conspiracy? Two or more people committing to do some dirty deed, or some such?
Do we go to jail together?…Bob
The conspirators that vote together probably don’t get housed together, darn it! And there wouldn’t be a genealogy library anywhere around!