Friday, September 4, 2015

ISFHWE Excellence in Writing Competition Winners Announced

I received this information from Tina Sansone of ISHFWE:

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ISFHWE EXCELLENCE-IN-WRITING COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors is proud to announce the winners of the Excellence-in-Writing Competition. All entries were exceptional this year. 

Submission details for 2016 will be announced soon. For any questions on the competition, email Tina Sansone at competition@isfhwe.org


ISFHWE’s Excellence in Writing Competition

Category 1 - Columns

*  1st:  Ernest Thode - Ask Ernie
*  2nd: James M. Beidler - Roots & Branches: Painful, poignant visit to mentor’s grave
*  3rd Maureen Wlodarczyk - Genealogy: It’s not a tree or a chart…it’s a story!
*  HM Michael McKeag - Where to Finish? 1 - My Family History  
*  HM Carolyn Leonard - When the Cheering Stopped – the last years of Woodrow Wilson


Category 2 - Articles

*  1st: Barbara J Starmans, PLCGS - Married to the Army
*  2nd:  Maureen Wlodarczyk - Grazia Fucci Lipari
*  3rd:  George G. Morgan - Managing Your Speaking Engagements
*  HM: Sheri Hessick - MayDay! MayDay! Lost Behind Enemy Lines
*  HM: Vi Parsons - Root Cellar Preserves


Category 3 - Newsletters

*  1st:  Michelle D. Novak - The Archivist
*  2nd:  Stephen Gauss Harriman - Family Newsletter
*  3rd:  Kathryn Manz - Penn in Hand
*  HM:  Linda Vixie - Pike Peak Genealogical Society Newsletter
*  HM:  James M. Beidler - Der Kurier


Category 4 - Unpublished Authors

*  1st:  Elyse Hill - History Lessons Learned From a Birth Certificate
*  2nd: Wendy Wilson Spooner - Civil Registration and Census Development in Great Britain & America
*  3rd:  Catherine Smith - In a Flash
*  HM:  Louise A. Eckhardt - A Mystery within a Mystery 
*  HM: Diane Buescher - Finding Elusive Ancestors in Early German Church Records


Unpublished Material/Published Authors

*  1st:  David Harper - Corresponding Hearts
*  2nd:  Robyn Smith, of "Reclaiming Kin" Genealogy Blog - Minty’s Legacy: A Black Family in Slavery and Freedom
*  3rd: Dave Strausfeld - Hudie Streisfeld and her life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
*  HM:  Ruth Randall, CG - Evidence of the Parentage of a Buffalo Solder: John Martin Daniels, Company I, 125th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
*  HM:  Carolyn Leonard - Dutch Letters


Category 6 - Poetry

*  1st:  Luanne Griffin - Going Home
*  2nd:  Casey Lin Brown - If I’d Met You
*  3rd:  Lisa Brahin Weinblatt - Great-Grandmother
*  HM:  Phyllis Matthews Ziller, MLIS - Finding Sarah 
*  HM:  Kenneth R. Castle, PhD - They are Calling to You

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Congratulations to the winners.  Where do genealogy and family history blog posts fit?  Is it only in the "Articles" category?

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