As the new delegate for the Genealogical Forum I need your help in determining candidates for this award from our society. Please submit your candidates, one living and one posthumous to me by April 3, so I can present them at the April Board Meeting on April 4. They will make a final decision on whose names will be presented for our 2005 submission. More details are below. Sue LeBlanc, FGS Delegate [email protected] Federation of Genealogical Societies "FGS Delegate Digest - Special Edition" ================================================== Linking the Genealogical Community Volume 12, No. 3, March 2005 RUTH C. BISHOP HALL OF HONOR NOMINEES WANTED NOW! Time is running out; the deadline for nominations for this year will be April 17, 2005. Please use the form on the FGS Web site to nominate a candidate from your society: http://www.fgs.org/fgs-rbaward.htm The award process will follow this timeline: April 17, 2005 Deadline for nominations for the current year; nominations received after this date will be applied to the 2006 award. May 30, 2005 The selection process by seven judges will be completed, and the inductee and nominating society will be notified. September 9, 2005 All members of the Ruth C. Bishop Hall of Honor will be honored at the FGS National Conference Friday night banquet. ************************************************************************ For new delegates or societies here is a summary of the Ruth C. Bishop Awards process: Those considered for placement in the Hall of Honor may only be nominated by a current FGS member society. Each member society may nominate one candidate per year for each of the two sections of the Hall of Honor. The Hall of Honor consists of two different categories: 1. Living Hall of Honor - only one new inductee is selected per year. 2. Posthumous Hall of Honor - an unlimited number of inductees may be selected from the nominations received. The Living Hall of Honor winner will have his/her way paid to the FGS conference in the year he or she is inducted and also will receive free conference registration, hotel nights, and FGS banquet tickets. The Living Hall of Honor winner will receive a cash award of $1,000.00 which will be donated in their name to the society which made the nomination. A Hall of Honor certificate will be prepared for each posthumous winner and given to the nominating society. An additional certificate can be requested for the family of the individual installed. The Hall of Honor is part of the FGS Web site. ************************************************************************ The criteria for choosing the winner will be based solely on the amount and type of volunteer service rendered. Genealogy background, years of research, education, etc. will not be part of the criteria. These guidelines and the form to use for nomination are on the FGS Web site at: www.fgs.org. ************************************************************************ Published by: The Federation of Genealogical Societies Business Office: P. O. Box 200940, Austin, TX 78720-0940 Toll-Free Phone: 1-888-FGS-1500 Toll-Free Fax: 1-888-380-0500 E-mail: [email protected] Web Page: http://www.fgs.org Delegate Digest Editor: Starr Hailey Campbell ([email protected]) Delegate Digest Copy Editor: Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, CG ([email protected])