I decided to review the newsletter to see which were the most popular postings during the period September 2011 to April 2012, and as a byproduct have drawn up a list ranking the top fifty posts. One of the most interesting features of the list is that postings relating to the First World War attract a significant number of views, as did the posts on the medieval field systems.
Rank: Views: Date: Title
 1  234 24/02/12 Herts Parish Church Registers to be digitised
 2  167 22/10/11 Harry Cull of Watford, World War One Photographer 
 3  151 08/09/11 Buying Hertfordshire Wills Online 
 4  138 01/01/12 Site activity for the year 2011 
 5  136 22/04/12 We want to register our children's births (1829) 
 6  127 23/10/11 Medieval Field System exposed in Wilstone Reservoir
 7  113 16/09/11 A Book on Gustard Wood, Wheathampstead 
 8  109 21/09/11 Post Card Views of Shenley 
 9  106 12/10/11 Mental Health Records in Hertfordshire 
 10   92 28/09/11 Our 50th Wedding Anniversary 
 11   90 26/01/12 New Post Cards of Aldbury 
 12   89 02/12/11 Xmas Challenge - The Lunatics at Harpenden Hall 1851-1901
 13   88 15/09/11 Some More St Albans Football Clubs wanting Dates 
 14   86 19/12/11 Some WW1 Officers in Watford 
 15   84 27/10/11 Isle of Wight Rifles at Watford, Summer 1915 
 16   84 28/11/11 More WW1 Army pictures by Cull of Watford 
 17   82 17/04/12 A celebration dinner, the very rich, carts and the railway
 18   75 18/10/11 School Group Photograph, Boxmoor School, Hemel Hempstead
 19   75 09/02/12 Why I groan when I get a query from the USA 
 20   75 20/01/12 Make the most of FREE genealogy sites 
 21   73 25/10/11 Little Berkhamsted War Memorial and St Andrew's Church
 22   70 07/04/12 William Harold Cox of Luton & St Albans 
 23   69 22/04/12 Relaxing in Tavistock Square (off topic) 
 24   69 05/03/12 The Latest Issue of Hertfordshire People 
 25   68 05/02/12 St Stephens Brickworks, Bricket Wood 
 26   66 03/10/11 Major update of Watton-at-Stone web page
 27   66 28/01/12 Congratulations to Wikipedia for spotting this spam 
 28   66 23/01/12 William George Bennett, St Albans Brickmaker 
 29   65 16/12/11 William Walby's Inquest, 1890 and Warren Wood, Hatfield
 30   63 02/03/12 Can anyone read shorthand? 
 31   63 04/11/11 William Harold Cox, Photographer of Luton 
 32   62 18/04/12 Hertfordshire History Meetings, May 2012 
 33   59 20/09/11 Poaching & Petty Thieving in St Albans 
 34   58 09/12/11 Even this faded card can tell a story 
 35   57 03/12/11 Stagenhoe Park Photographs saved for posterity 
 36   55 18/09/11 Meeting my Great Great Great Great Grandfather 
 37   54 23/02/12 A Post Card with surprising Football and Princely Connections
 38   54 03/12/11 More Evidence of Medieval Fields at Tring Reservoirs
 39   54 06/09/11 I attend an Old School Reunion 
 40   53 13/03/12 Did you ask Grandma about it? 
 41   52 31/03/12 I will see you all, far more clearly, in a week's time
 42   52 01/10/11 High Resolution Images of Old Hertfordshire Post Cards
 43   51 10/04/12 A unknown school near Hitchin 
 44   51 25/02/12 The Cream of Curiosity by Reginald Hine 
 45   51 07/02/12 Bricks & Beer at St Albans 
 46   50 24/04/12 What did your parish church own in 1552? 
 47   50 28/02/12 Tombs with Trees in Hertfordshire
 48   50 26/02/12 Can you help me identify this Post Card? 
 49   50 21/11/11 The B.P. Swimming Club visit Hoddesdon in 1910 
 50   49 13/04/12 An Important Index of Historical Hertfordshire Articles
One post, from last September only had one view? Can you guess what the subject was?
 
 
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