{"id":6,"date":"2013-06-06T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/entries-are-being-accepted-for-the-2013-dallas-genealogical-society-writing-contest\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T20:26:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T01:26:38","slug":"entries-are-being-accepted-for-the-2013-dallas-genealogical-society-writing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/entries-are-being-accepted-for-the-2013-dallas-genealogical-society-writing-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Entries Are Being Accepted for the 2013 Dallas Genealogical Society Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WritingCompetition\" alt=\"WritingCompetition\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-AR-seRjuzAg\/UbEFILrsyhI\/AAAAAAAAIvU\/K8SV0fguUQ0\/WritingCompetition%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"125\" height=\"153\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Submissions for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasgenealogy.org\/Info\/Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Genealogical Society 2013 Writing Competition<\/a> are due by <strong>August 31, 2013<\/strong>.\u00a0 You do not have to be a DGS member to enter and the articles do not necessarily have to be about Dallas genealogy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Articles are to be 1,500-5,000 words in length, unpublished, and should fall into one of the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>basic and advanced methodologies and case studies (not limited by geography)<\/li>\n<li>family histories and genealogies, particularly those linked to North Texas, including those who came from or left to settle elsewhere<\/li>\n<li>historical events in North Texas with a local family connection<\/li>\n<li>ethnic, house, or military histories related to North Texas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monetary prizes will be awarded as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First Place \u2013 $500<\/li>\n<li>Second Place \u2013 $300<\/li>\n<li>Third Place &#8211; 150<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Winners will be announce at the Annual DGS luncheon in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasgenealogy.org\/Info\/Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Complete details<\/a>, including rules and submission guidelines, can be found at the DGS website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Need some convincing to write about your genealogy research?\u00a0 See my post <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/julietarr.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/putting-pen-to-paper-or-fingers-to.html\"><em>4 Reasons to Convert Your Genealogy Research Into Writing<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions for the Dallas Genealogical Society 2013 Writing Competition are due by August 31, 2013.\u00a0 You do not have to be a DGS member to enter and the articles do not necessarily have to be about Dallas genealogy.<\/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-6","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-6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}