snipped from the Rootsweb Review: WRITERS' ALERT. Do you have a genealogy tale to tell? Crank up those word processors because here's your chance to enter the "Genealogy Research Story" category of ISFHWE's (International Society of Family History Writers and Editors) writing contest. This annual contest offers small cash awards in four categories for family history writers, including one for want-to-be-writers, for original articles, and two for published writers. Deadline is March 6. Details, rules, and entry forms can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cgc/2004contest.htm ................. Previously published in RootsWeb Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, 14 January 2004.
Hmm, thanks Lauren.... I am gonna do this! Some of you may recall me telling about my grandmother's sister who just "disappeared" on Thame Farm Day in Oxfordshire in 1926 taking her 10 year old daughter Phyllis with her? To the day she died, Grama never knew what happened to her sister - given the fact that she lost her mother at age 4, her baby brother at age 2, and her two oldest brothers, one in WWI and the other shortly thereafter (meat poisoning), this was a very hard loss. I put up this website in 1998: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmbhome/2phyllis.html using the thinking that if I posted the pictures, maybe someday a descendant would do a search and "find me"......... Well!!!! It happened!! The day after Thanksgiving, I was contacted by one of the sons of Phyllis! As suspected, their "Nan" had run away with "the man from Haddenham" who had also disappeared locally that long-ago day because she was being abused by Phyllis' father. The two went to the south of England where together, as partners, Phyllis was raised and when she married, they helped her raise her children as well.... I now know there are five children who are my second cousins, all alive and well, some with children living in California! Just think, I could have passed a cousin and never known it! I spoke to each and every one of them over Christmas break and we are all now conspiring a reunion for the summer of 2005 in the little UK village where it all began - then they all want to come here! In any case, there is more to my "search story" and I think it would be fun to write up to see if the editors like it as much as I do! Wish me luck....... And while you are at it, think about what you might have to "report!" Jana -----Original Message----- From: Lauren Boyd [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MarinGenSoc] Announcement: Family History Writers and Editors) writing contest snipped from the Rootsweb Review: WRITERS' ALERT. Do you have a genealogy tale to tell? Crank up those word processors because here's your chance to enter the "Genealogy Research Story" category of ISFHWE's (International Society of Family History Writers and Editors) writing contest. This annual contest offers small cash awards in four categories for family history writers, including one for want-to-be-writers, for original articles, and two for published writers. Deadline is March 6. Details, rules, and entry forms can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cgc/2004contest.htm ................. Previously published in RootsWeb Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, 14 January 2004. ==== MarinGenSoc Mailing List ==== Marin County Genealogical Society Founded May 20, 1977. Visit our web site. http://www.maringensoc.org