The following announcement was written by the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors:
The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors announced the 2010 winners of the Annual Excellence in Writing Competition at the Banquet held on Wednesday, May 11, in Charleston, SC, in conjunction with the National Genealogical Society Conference.
The judges for this year were Amy Arner, Diane Garvin, Heather Henderson, and Bill West; contest coordinator was Yolanda Campbell Lifter. Leland K. Meitzler was the banquet speaker with a presentation on Genealogy Writers Do More than Write Books. Awards were presented by ISFHWE Second Vice President Gary M. Smith and Treasurer Diana Crisman Smith.
The 2010 Contest winners and their winning pieces are:
Category I: Newspaper Columns
1st Place: Michael Hait
Learning from Genealogical Failure
2nd Place: Tara Cajacob
Curator in the Community: Sylvester Gleisner’s Uniform
3rd Place: James M. Beidler
Participate in census with eye to future
Category II: Published Articles
1st Place: Leslie Albrecht Huber
The Journey Takers
2nd Place: Mary Penner
Project Census
3rd Place: Jean Wilcox Hibben
Uncovering More than Artifacts
Category III: Original Research Story
1st Place: Linda Stewart
Encounters with a Family Skeleton: Virgil Baldwin
2nd Place: James B. Carr
The Search for Frank LaMunday
3rd Place: Jo Arnspiger
The Legacy and Entangled Roots of Minerva Louise Favorite Douglass
Category IV: Want-to-Be Writer/Columnist
1st Place: Courtenay Auger
The Map of Ireland
2nd Place: Priscilla Brown
The Bellhop
3rd Place: Joyce Hardmond Gabourel
Up South with Grandma Macie Russell Rice in Medford, Long Island, New York
Category V:
1st Place: Betty Lou Cooke
The Michigan Grandfather I Never Knew
2nd Place: Ruth Randall
Making a Way Out of No Way
3rd Place: Julie Cahill Tarr
With One Mystery Solved, Others Surface
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