{"id":28,"date":"2012-09-01T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/2012-root-cellar-family-history-writing-contest\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T15:34:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:34:54","slug":"2012-root-cellar-family-history-writing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/2012-root-cellar-family-history-writing-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Root Cellar Family History Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-sxZXdGDzYLE\/UOZPBYu67eI\/AAAAAAAAHQ4\/FNi3rL_GEUU\/s1600-h\/WritingCompetition%25255B4%25255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WritingCompetition\" alt=\"WritingCompetition\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-wMUZq8557-I\/UOZPBgTe86I\/AAAAAAAAHRA\/Xi60h7ktqBI\/WritingCompetition_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"125\" height=\"153\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Submissions are due <strong>October 1, 2012<\/strong> for the Root Cellar Family History Writing Contest sponsored by the Sacramento Genealogical Society (SGS).\u00a0 You do not need to be a member of the society and entries do not have to related to Sacramento or California.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the rules:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe subject matter of the entries is to be family history or local-history stories, memoirs, or character sketches. Entries should be between 500 and 2,000 words in length. How-to articles or articles about the research process would not be acceptable for this contest.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Winners will receive an assortment of prizes.\u00a0 First place prizes include a six-month Ancestry.com membership, a copy of Family Tree Maker 2012, and a SGS membership.\u00a0 Visit their website for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootcellar.org\/cpage.php?pt=29\">complete rules and submission guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Need some convincing to write about your genealogy research?\u00a0 See my post <\/em><a title=\"4 Reasons to Convert Your Genealogy Research Into Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/4-reasons-to-convert-your-genealogy-research-into-writing\/\"><em>4 Reasons to Convert Your Genealogy Research Into Writing<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions are due October 1, 2012 for the Root Cellar Family History Writing Contest sponsored by the Sacramento Genealogical Society (SGS).\u00a0 You do not need to be a member of the society and entries do not have to related to Sacramento or California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-competitions","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-22-id","cat-17-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}