The following is from Tina Sansone:
September 4, 2015 – 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 – Pikes 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Category 4 – Unpublished Authors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
Category 5 – Unpublished Material/Published Authors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
