{"id":5437,"date":"2015-09-18T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2021-01-31T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:52:35","slug":"2015-isfhwe-excellence-in-writing-competition-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/2015-isfhwe-excellence-in-writing-competition-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 ISFHWE Excellence-In-Writing Competition Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/ISFHWE%20Logo.jpg\" align=\"right\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/isfhwe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Society of Family History Writers and Editors<\/a> is proud to announce the winners of the 2015 Excellence-in-Writing Competition.&nbsp; The winners are: <\/p>\n<p><b>Category 1 \u2013 Columns <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place \u2013 Ernest Thode, <i>Ask Ernie<\/i><\/li>\n<li>2nd Place \u2013 James M. Beidler, Roots &amp; Branches: <i>Painful, poignant visit to mentor\u2019s grave<\/i><\/li>\n<li>3rd Place \u2013 Maureen Wlodarczyk, <i>Genealogy: It\u2019s not a tree or a chart\u2026it\u2019s a story!<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Michael McKeag, <i>Where to Finish? 1 &#8211; My Family History<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Carolyn Leonard, <i>When the Cheering Stopped \u2013 the last years of Woodrow Wilson<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><\/em><i><\/i><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Category 2 \u2013 Articles<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place \u2013 Barbara J Starmans, PLCGS, <i>Married to the Army<\/i><\/li>\n<li>2nd Place \u2013 Maureen Wlodarczyk,<i> Grazia Fucci Lipari<\/i><\/li>\n<li>3rd Place \u2013 George G. Morgan, <i>Managing Your Speaking Engagements<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Sheri Hessick, <i>MayDay! MayDay! Lost Behind Enemy Lines<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Vi Parsons, <i>Root Cellar Preserves<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Category 3 \u2013 Newsletters<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place \u2013 Michelle D. Novak, <i>The Archivist<\/i><\/li>\n<li>2nd Place \u2013 Stephen Gauss, <i>Harriman Family Newsletter<\/i><\/li>\n<li>3rd Place \u2013 Kathryn Manz, <i>Penn in Hand<\/i><\/li>\n<li>HM: Linda Vixie, <i>Pike Peak Genealogical Society Newsletter<\/i><\/li>\n<li>HM: James M. Beidler, <i>Der Kurier<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Category 4 \u2013 Unpublished Authors<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place \u2013 Elyse Hill, <i>History Lessons Learned From a Birth Certificate<\/i><\/li>\n<li>2nd Place \u2013 Wendy Wilson Spooner, <i>Civil Registration and Census Development in Great Britain &amp; America<\/i><\/li>\n<li>3rd Place \u2013 Catherine Smith, <i>In a Flash<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Louise A. Eckhardt, <i>A Mystery within a Mystery<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Diane Buescher, <i>Finding Elusive Ancestors in Early German Church Records<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><\/em><i> <\/p>\n<p><\/i><b>Category 5 \u2013 Unpublished Material\/Published Authors<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place \u2013 David Harper, <i>Corresponding Hearts<\/i><\/li>\n<li>2nd Place \u2013 Robyn Smith, of &#8220;Reclaiming Kin&#8221; Genealogy Blog, <i>Minty\u2019s Legacy: A Black Family in Slavery and Freedom<\/i><\/li>\n<li>3rd Place \u2013 Dave Strausfeld, <i>Hudie Streisfeld and her life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Ruth Randall, CG, <i>Evidence of the Parentage of a Buffalo Solder: John Martin Daniels, Company I, 125th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Carolyn Leonard, <i>Dutch Letters<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Category 6 \u2013 Poetry<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place \u2013 Luanne Griffin, <i>Going Home<\/i><\/li>\n<li>2nd Place \u2013 Casey Lin Brown, <i>If I\u2019d Met You<\/i><\/li>\n<li>3rd Place \u2013 Lisa Brahin Weinblatt, <i>Great-Grandmother<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Phyllis Matthews Ziller, MLIS, <i>Finding Sarah<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 Kenneth R. Castle, PhD, <i>They are Calling to You<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all of the winners!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors is proud to announce the winners of the 2015 Excellence-in-Writing Competition.&nbsp; The winners are: Category 1 \u2013 Columns 1st Place \u2013 Ernest Thode, Ask Ernie 2nd Place \u2013 James M. 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