{"id":5370,"date":"2015-05-29T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T20:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2015-05-29T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T20:41:41","slug":"winners-announced-for-the-2014-geneii-family-history-writers-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/winners-announced-for-the-2014-geneii-family-history-writers-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners Announced for the 2014 GENEii Family History Writers Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/GENEii.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>A big congratulations to all the winners of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scgsgenealogy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California Genealogical Society\u2019s 2014 GENEii Family History Writers Contest<\/a>.&nbsp; Below is the list of winners in each of the two categories.&nbsp; Winning entries will be published in <em>The Searcher<\/em>, which is the quarterly journal of SCGS.&nbsp; Also, be thinking about entries for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scgsgenealogy.com\/geneii\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2015 GENEii contest<\/a>, which will start on November 1, 2015. <\/p>\n<p><b><i>Category 1: submissions from 1,000 to 2,000 words<\/i><\/b> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First Place: &#8220;Jonathan Emery &#8221; \u2013 Adrienne Boaz of Oxford, Michigan\n<li>Second Place: &#8220;My Grandmother is My Guru&#8221; \u2013 Kelly Hirt of Snoqualmie, Washington\n<li>Third Place: &#8220;Childhood\u2019s Last Stand &#8221; \u2013 Lauren Reynolds of Bel Air, Maryland\n<li>Runner Up: &#8220;At the Crossroads&#8221; \u2013 Amy Gordon of Gill, Massachusetts\n<li>Honorable Mention: &#8220;Boca De La Playa&#8221; \u2013 Joyce Roberson of West Hills, California\n<li>Honorable Mention: &#8220;Veiled Grace&#8221; \u2013 Cathy Wilson of Huntington Beach, California <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><b>Category 2: submissions under 1,000 words<\/b><\/i> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First Place: &#8220;Patrol Boat Stop on the Mekong River&#8221; \u2013 Michelle Robin La of Santa Barbara, California\n<li>Second Place: &#8220;Under the Sun&#8221; \u2013 Kharis Adirahsetio of Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia\n<li>Third Place: &#8220;My Great-Grandmother, Isabella&#8221; \u2013 Cassie Shehadeh of Monrovia, California\n<li>Runner Up: &#8220;A Sprig of Life&#8221; \u2013 Jeremy Flood of Summerville, South Carolina\n<li>Honorable Mention: &#8220;The Little Engine that Could&#8221; \u2013 Erika Hoffman of Chapel Hill, North Carolina\n<li>Honorable Mention: &#8220;Uncovering Dad\u2019s Secret History&#8221; \u2013 Fred Land of West Lake Village, California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big congratulations to all the winners of the Southern California Genealogical Society\u2019s 2014 GENEii Family History Writers Contest.&nbsp; Below is the list of winners in each of the two categories.&nbsp; Winning entries will be published in The Searcher, which is the quarterly journal of [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-writing-competitions","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-25-id","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-1oC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370","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=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}