ISFHWE Excellence in Writing Award Winners Announced

The following announcement was written by the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors:

Winners of the 2008 International Society of Family History Writers and Editors Excellence in Writing Contest were announced 14 May 2008 in Kansas City at the annual ISFHWE banquet.

The winners are:

Category I-Newspaper Columns
First Place: Mary Alice Dell, "Land Ho"
Second Place: Julie Miller, "Dear Lucy, Love Phil: A Cotton Family Legacy"
Third Place: Mary Penner, "Union Vets Joined Posts Across Nation"

Category II-Articles
First Place: Colleen Fitzpatrick, "Clues Left Around a House"
Second Place: Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak: "Found! Serial Centenarians"
Third Place: Schelly Talalay Dardashti: "Planting the Family Tree"

Category III-Original Research Story
First Place: Hazlehurst Smith Beezer, "Dr. James Hill: Skeleton in the Hall Family Closet"
Second Place: Terry R. Barnhart, "Unraveling the Mystery in Ginghamsburg"
Third Place: Nancy Waters Lauer, "When a Brick Wall Crumbles Onto the Wrong Path"

Category IV-Want-to-Be Writer/Columnist
First Place: Debra A. Hoffman, "Bricks & Mortality"
Second Place: Harold Henderson, "City Directories as Clue Factories"
Third Place: J.H. Fonkert, "Celebrate Minnesota's History by Starting Your Own"

Congratulations to all the winners!

Comments

[Mary Gaouette]

I'm new to reading Eastman's online newsletter and basically new to Genealogy. Where are the above stories posted and where can one read them? And what is ISFHWE ? Thanks

[Dick Eastman]

ISFHWE is the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors. You can learn more about this non-profit organization at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cgc/

- Dick Eastman

[M.A. Dell]

Thank you Dick! The column Land Ho! has been reprinted on the website of the Genealogical Society of Kendall County at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgskc/starcolumn.htm

[Suzia]

Congratulations, Mary Alice! I enjoyed reading Land Ho! along with your other columns.

[Schelly Talalay Dardashti]

Hi, Dick

I have asked the ISFHWE to post the publications and dates for Category I and II published articles. In Category II, both Colleen's and Megan's winning entries were in Ancestry magazine. My "Planting the Family Tree" was in the Jerusalem Post (print and online at http://www.jpost.com), for which publication I write frequently and where I was genealogy columnist (1999-2005).

Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Tracing the Tribe - The Jewish Genealogy Blog
http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com