{"id":628,"date":"2011-05-16T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wow-i-actually-won\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T18:15:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T23:15:32","slug":"wow-i-actually-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wow-i-actually-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! I Actually Won?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"trophy\" You may recall my Facebook status a few months back indicating I had some great news to share but couldn\u2019t at the time because it hadn\u2019t been officially announced.\u00a0 Well, on May 11th, it was official\u2026I took 3rd Place in Category 5 (unpublished work by published author) of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors<\/a> (ISFHWE) Writing Competition.<\/p>\n

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The awards were announced on May 11th at the annual ISFHWE banquet in conjunction with the NGS conference.\u00a0 Unfortunately I was unable to be there in person.\u00a0 A list of all the winners is available in Dick Eastman\u2019s blog post ISFHWE Excellence in Writing Competition Winners Announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article I submitted was entitled \u201cWith One Mystery Solved, Others Surface,\u201d and is about my Miller clan.\u00a0 I had previously posted various research and conclusions on this blog, but the article took all the pieces and expanded on all the elements with a focus on the immigrant ancestor.\u00a0 The last post, Slowly Breaking Through Emil\u2019s Brick Wall<\/a> discusses the research up to that point (links to the previous posts are included); the article I submitted was essentially the next part in the research story.’<\/p>\n

To be honest, I really didn\u2019t anticipate placing at all.\u00a0 This is the first writing competition (of any kind) that I have entered, and to place third in my category is an honor.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to expand on this accomplishment.<\/p>\n

I want to take a moment to thank a few people who inspired me and \u201cpushed\u201d me into entering the competition.\u00a0 First, I want to thank Oriene Springstroh, fellow writer and ISGS Board Member, for her inspiration.\u00a0 Through discussions with Oriene, I learned more about myself and the direction I want to take in terms of genealogy\u2026essentially, the writing aspect.\u00a0 Her words of encouragement stick with me all the time.<\/p>\n

I also want to thank Sheri Beffort Fenley<\/a>, who pushed<\/span> encouraged me into entering the competition in December.\u00a0 At the end of the year, I had written up my 2010 Achievements & 2011 Resolutions<\/a> post.\u00a0 In that post I talked about the fact that I had an entry written for the competition, but wasn\u2019t sure if I was going to enter at that time or wait until this year (the entry deadline was December 31st, so I didn\u2019t have much time to decide).\u00a0 Sheri left the following comment:\u00a0 \u201cSubmit that article to ISFHWE! The feedback you will get is the best part about the whole contest!\u201d\u00a0 So I did just that!\u00a0 Mind you, I still had to edit the article and finish the sourcing, but all the major writing was done.<\/p>\n

The feedback is really why I decided to bite the bullet and enter.\u00a0 I do hope that I get some valuable feedback and continue to learn and grow.\u00a0 And as for a third place finish\u2026not to shabby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may recall my Facebook status a few months back indicating I had some great news to share but couldn\u2019t at the time because it hadn\u2019t been officially announced.\u00a0 Well, on May 11th, it was official\u2026I took 3rd Place in Category 5 (unpublished work by […]<\/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":[25,356,39,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-news","category-news-events","category-writing-competitions","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-25-id","cat-356-id","cat-39-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-a8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","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=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}