{"id":4976,"date":"2014-05-02T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2014-05-02T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T23:46:11","slug":"entries-are-being-accepted-for-minnesota-genealogical-society-family-history-writing-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/entries-are-being-accepted-for-minnesota-genealogical-society-family-history-writing-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Entries Are Being Accepted for Minnesota Genealogical Society Family History Writing Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/WritingCompetition.jpg\" align=\"right\">Submissions are now being accepted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mngs.org\/upload\/files\/MGSWritingComp2014Rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">6th Annual Minnesota Genealogical Society Family History Writing Competition<\/a>.&nbsp; Entries are due by <strong>15 July 2014<\/strong>.&nbsp; Winning entries will be published in the MGS quarterly <em>Minnesota Genealogist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to be a member of MGS to enter, nor do entries have to relate to Minnesota.&nbsp; Entries, however, must not have been previously published and must fall into one of the following to categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Problem-Solving<\/strong> \u2013 articles demonstrating research and source documentation (3,000 word max)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family Story<\/strong> \u2013 articles engaging the reader in persons, place, and time (2,000 word max)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For additional information and rules, see <a href=\"http:\/\/mngs.org\/upload\/files\/MGSWritingComp2014Rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Contest Rules<\/a> (opens a PDF).&nbsp; The entry form can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/mngs.org\/upload\/files\/MGSWritingComp2014entryform.doc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (opens a Word document).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions are now being accepted for the 6th Annual Minnesota Genealogical Society Family History Writing Competition.&nbsp; Entries are due by 15 July 2014.&nbsp; Winning entries will be published in the MGS quarterly Minnesota Genealogist. You do not have to be a member of MGS to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4976","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-1ig","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","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=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}