#Polish #Genealogy #Blog – Stanczyk Thanks His Visitors …

by C. Michael Eliasz-Solomon

Visitors Last 60 Days - Cumulative

About two months ago, on the 4th of July, Stanczyk decided to put a counter on the blog/website to see who you, my gentle readers are. Thank you for coming and for your emails — please keep them coming.

Since the blog is written in English, with a smattering of Polish, or Russian or even Latin, I suspected the English speaking world (US, CA, GB, AU) would be the majority. As you can see by the flags of the world and the numbers besides the flags, representing yourselves, that is true.

Since much of the subject matter is Polish/Slavic genealogy based, then I was not surprised to find Poland my second largest country of interested viewers — Dziękuję bardzo . Indeed my thanks to all of the Central/Eastern Europeans from: PL, DE, RU, CZ, AT, UA, BY, LT and even HR — you know who you are.

I am pleased with Canada since many Polish genealogists or genealogists in general who trace the Polonian diaspora came through Canada, as was the case in some of Stanczyk’s family tree. I am pleasantly surprised by the Nordic nations (SE, NO, DK), but of course there was much intermingling with the Polish peoples in a time long ago, including Mieszko I ‘s grandson Canute (aka Cnut the Great) who went on to great influence in the Nordic countries and finally in the United Kingdom itself.

As for the rest of the world, I am glad you came too. I thank you for your polite inquisitiveness.

I would urge all interested parties who blog, to use the Flag Counter — why not? I think the experiment was a success. I now know I am reaching my target audience (and a bit more besides) globally.

You can find the flag on the Map pages or the Dziennik Polski (Detroit, MI) pages. Click on the flags and it will take you the Flags Counter website where you can get your own.

Thanks for being a part of my experiment. For my part, I think I will keep it going to see how many Flags of the world I can collect or how many US states (32 so far) or Canadian provinces (5) I can wrangle in.

Your Host,

–Stanczyk

Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:34 am in Country, Data, Flags, Fun | RSS feed | Reply | Trackback URL

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2 Comments to “#Polish #Genealogy #Blog – Stanczyk Thanks His Visitors …”

MaryAnne
September 2, 2011 at 8:03 pm

Hello Stanczyk,

I am one of your subscribers from California in the U.S despite the fact that my own research takes me to Brzozow (Podkarpackie) & Korzenna ( Malopolska) Poland!! I enjoy your blog very much and have found a few very interesting articles, like your post about the House Numbers and the subsequent answer and also the one about the antique Shoemaker’s Poster. I continue my own research into the Shoemaker’s of Poland and will share my findings when I come across them.
However, I am finding one difficulty with the site. I find the small very light color and thin font with the gray background difficult to read. When you Bold the letters, it makes it much easier to read. Is there any chance you will consider a minor change to accomodate your audience with vision problems?
Thank you for the entertainment and keep asking those difficult questions, so you can post the answers for us all!
MaryAnne

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- mikeeliasz
  September 3, 2011 at 8:28 am
  
  MaryAnne,
  Thanks for subscribing and also for writing to me. Your kind words hearten and encourage me.
  
  The format of the blog/website is due to wordpress (my blogging software and website provider). Their programs dictate the “style” which I have very little control over. I will try and write using a bigger “format” (ex. Heading 4 instead of paragraph). I cannot write in all bold as that will actually make things harder to read for more people.
  
  But I suspect the problem is really your browser. Fortunately, most browsers now allow a “zoom” feature. I can give you help with either Internet Explorer or Firefox(Mozilla) browsers.
  
  In Internet Explorer (popular in Windows computers), you would hit ‘Alt-X’. That is press and hold the ‘Alt’ key next to spacebar, and while still holding down the ‘Alt’ key press ‘x’. Hence Alt-x. This will bring up a “contextual” menu near the top of your browser window. “Zoom” is the third choice. It will bring up a list of zoom-levels. I recommend 125% or 150% for you. That should improve the readability for you.
  
  In Firefox, you press “Ctrl-Shift-+” to zoom in and “Ctrl–” That is Control-plus to zoom in and Control-minus to zoom out. As with the “Alt” key, the “Ctrl” key must be pressed and held down while you type the other key(s).
  
  Let me know if you use another browser. I do have Safari for Windows (sadly Stanczyk is making do with a Windows computer instead of his beloved MAC).
  
  If the “zoom” feature improves your ability to read my blog, then I will not make any changes. You may also want to have someone to adjust the contrast/color on your monitor for you too. I know I had to really tinker with these Windows computers to get the colors to give me the proper contrast. This was something I took for granted in the MAC world.
  
  Stanczyk too has “very aged” eyes from years of working on computers.
  
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