Check out our member winners that entered the ISFHWE writing competition!!!!

International Society of Family History Writers and Editors

(ISFHWE)

Website: ISFHWE.org                                   Mailing Address: PO Box 152987, Cape Coral, FL 33915

For Immediate Release – August 27, 2014

ISFHWE EXCELLENCE-IN-WRITING COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors is proud to announce the winners of the 2014 Excellence-in-Writing Competition.  The winners are:

Category 1 - Columns

1^st Place – Shelley K. Bishop “The Legacy of Mary Comfort Eberhard”

2^nd Place – Nancy Ann Calhoun “People can ‘flesh out’ genealogy at library”

3^rd Place – Maureen K. Wlodarczyk “Precious Paper in the Digital World”

Honorable Mention – Shannon Combs-Bennett “Getting You Pointed in the Right Direction”

Honorable Mention – Michelle Roos Goodrum “Using Social Media to Enrich Stories of the Family Home” (Our November Land Speaker!)

Honorable Mention – Carolyn Schotts “Fading Family Roots”

 Category 2 - Articles

1^st Place – Schelly Talalay Dardashti “The Other Side of Jewish Genealogy: Learn how to get started exploring your Sephardic roots”

2^nd Place – Shelley K. Bishop “Turning Forests into Farms: the George Clark Family of Licking and Delaware Counties, Ohio

3^rd Place – Mari Margaret McLean, PhD “Finding Maxa Ann Hadden and Mr. McLean: Serendipity and the Brick Wall”

Honorable Mention – Smiljka Kitanovic “Appreciating Genealogy Angels”

Honorable Mention – Carolyn B. Leonard “Early Settlement Leaves Quiet Legacy”

Honorable Mention – Chip Rowe “Who Was Joel Holcomb of Wallingford, Connecticut”

 Category 3 – Genealogy Newsletters

1^st Place – Patricia Mansfield Phelan “Irish Family History Forum”

2^nd Place – James M. Beidler “Der Kurier” – newsletter of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society

3^rd Place – Kay Waterloo “Goodrich Family Association Quarterly”

Honorable Mention – Carolyn B. Leonard “Dutch Cousins”

 Category 4 – Unpublished Authors

1^st Place – Shirley McKenzie “Sylvira Said ‘They burned My House’- June 1864, Silver Springs, MS”

2^nd Place – Robbi J. Ryan “A Strong Will to Live”

Category 5 – Unpublished Material by Published Authors

1^st Place – Rondie Yancey “Murder at the Post Office: One Family’s Tragedy”

2^nd Place – Leslie Tichenor Mason “Create a Colorful Picture of Your Ancestors from a Grey Palette of Facts”

3^rd Place – Marie Navarro “Fighting on Both Sides of the Alamo”

Honorable Mention – Kenneth R. Castle, PhD “Eden Booth, a Tale of Westward Migration”

Honorable Mention – Sherri Hessick “Al Allan Alton William Wade Wendergren Westman”

Honorable Mention – Barbara Lee “Carolyn 1947-1947 – Hanford Nuclear Site and a Baby’s Death”

Honorable Mention – Chip Rowe “What Happened to Boyd?”

Honorable Mention – Jodie Lynn Strait “William Henry Hunt: An Original Texter”

 Category 6 – Poetry

1^st Place – Smiljka Kitanovic “River Journey”

2^nd Place – Marie Navarro “Another Day, Another Time”

3^rd Place – Andrea Ramsey “Young Girl”

Honorable Mention – Kenneth R. Castle, PhD “There Once Was a Man…”

Honorable Mention – Paul K. Graham, CG, AG “Genealogy Standards: A Poem”

Honorable Mention – Nicole Gilkison LaRue “To My Isa…”

Honorable Mention – Darcie Hind Posz, CG “Generations”

Address questions to Competition@isfhwe.org.

Details on the 2015 Competition will be released shortly.  The competition will open on 1 October. Details may be obtained on the website at ISFHWE.org.