TSGS 2007 AWARD RECIPIENTS Presented at the Annual Banquet Nov. 9 in Tyler VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR Audrey Rankin, Cass County Genealogical Society STUDENT PROJECTS Benjamin C. Gilmore - 1st place Grades 4-6 Alexis Walworth - 2nd place Grades 4-6 Tiffany Gilmore - 1st place Grades 7-9 Conner Walworth - 2nd place Grades 7-9 WEBSITES BY PARTNER SOCIETIES 1st place - Van Zandt County Genealogical Society 2nd place - East Texas Genealogical Society 3rd place - Victoria County Genealogical Society WRITING AWARDS: GRAND PRIZE WINNER - John E. Myrick "Fuller, Inglish, Day & Bourland: Lester Fuller and His Notable Grandparents" Category I - Books by Non Professionals Family Histories 1st place - John E. Myrick - "Fuller, Inglish, Day & Bourland: Lester Fuller and His Notable Grandparents" 2nd place - Clarence A. Scheel - "Bernhard Joseph Scheel: His Family in Germany and in Texas 1605-2005" References 1st place - Melodey M. Hauch - "Sandy Point Cemetery" 2nd place - Elvis N. Allen - "Building a County: Van Zandt County 1848-1992" 3rd place - Norman F. Porter - "Atascosa County History Through 1912" Category II - Books by a Professional 1st place - Dee Dee King - "Index to Selected Erath County Texas Obituaries: Mid 1980's-2006, The Marilyn Ewers Collection" Category III - Manuscripts 1st place - Karen McCann Hett - "Thomas W. Hoy, Schoolmaster" 2nd place - F. Carlton Cranor - "Samuel Dunbar Woolridge, M.D." 3rd place - Joanne Hutcheson Wilson - "John William Hutcheson" Category IV - Family Periodicals - no entries Category V - Columnists 1st place - Shirley Fuller - "This Week in Wills Point History" 2nd place - Mary O. Torres - "Harlingen Happenings" Category VI - Official Periodicals of Partner Societies Journals 1st place -- San Antonio Genealogical & Historical Society 2nd place -- Montgomery County Genealogical & Historical Society 3rd place - Genealogical & Historical Society of Caldwell County Newsletters 1st place - Texas Research Ramblers Genealogical Society 2nd place - Mid-Cities Genealogical Society 3rd place - East Texas Genealogical Society Quarterlies 1st place - Victoria County Genealogical Society 2nd place - Central Texas Genealogical Society 3rd place - East Texas Genealogical Society Category VII - Books Published by Partner Societies 1st place - Grapevine Historical Society - "Grapevine's Most Unforgettable Characters" 2nd place - San Antonio Genealogical & Historical Society - "Cemeteries of Bexar County Texas, Vol. 4" 3rd place tie - South Plains Genealogical Society - "The City of Lubbock Cemetery 1892-2002" 3rd place tie - Central Texas Genealogical Society - "McLennan County, Texas Tax Roll for 1890" ARCHIVAL GRANT -- East Texas Genealogical Society for a project to digitize "The Tracings" quarterlies from the Anderson County Genealogical Society and the first 20 volumes of the "East Texas Family Records" of the ETGS-- $500 MATCHING GRANT - East Texas Genealogical Society for a project to publish a book of Rusk County, Texas Death Ledger 1903-1917 -- $500 PRESIDENT'S AWARDS OF APPRECIATION Sam & Sherry Kidd - East Texas Genealogical Society, local conference chairs June Everheart - East Texas Genealogical Society, conference vendor chair TSGS AWARDS OF APPRECIATION FOR SERVICE Deborah Kunze - Outgoing president and district rep from Grapevine Marguerite Newcomb - outgoing editor of Stirpes H. Martin Soward - retiring district rep from San Antonio Johnnye Carlson - retiring district rep from LaMarque Nelda Baker - retiring district rep from Chillicothe Nancy Hengst - retiring district rep from Hamilton Co. Judy Knight - retiring district rep from Fort Worth Terry Bowers - outgoing parliamentarian Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald TSGS President