{"id":5466,"date":"2015-11-13T22:14:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T04:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2015-11-13T22:14:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T04:14:27","slug":"entries-are-being-accepted-for-the-chicago-genealogical-society-2015-2016-writing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/entries-are-being-accepted-for-the-chicago-genealogical-society-2015-2016-writing-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Entries Are Being Accepted for the Chicago Genealogical Society 2015-2016 Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/WritingCompetition.jpg\" align=\"right\">Submissions are now being accepted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagogenealogy.org\/contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Genealogical Society 2015-2016 Writing Contest<\/a>.&nbsp; Entries are due by May 30, 2016.&nbsp; You do not have to be a member of the CGS to enter.&nbsp; According to their website, \u201cSubmissions may be either a family history that covers three to four generations, or a personal history about life in Chicago, and must demonstrate proper use of genealogical methodology, techniques, and sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monetary prizes will be awarded to the winners, and winning entries will be published in CGS\u2019s quarterly magazine <em>Chicago Genealogist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, including rules and the entry form, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagogenealogy.org\/contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contest<\/a> page at the CGS website.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Need some convincing to write about your genealogy research?&nbsp; See my post <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/4-reasons-to-convert-your-genealogy-research-into-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>4 Reasons to Convert Your Genealogy Research Into Writing<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions are now being accepted for the Chicago Genealogical Society 2015-2016 Writing Contest.&nbsp; Entries are due by May 30, 2016.&nbsp; You do not have to be a member of the CGS to enter.&nbsp; According to their website, \u201cSubmissions may be either a family history that [&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-5466","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-1qa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","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=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}