2013
GENEii Family History Writers Contest Winners
By Pam Wiedenbeck, SCGS, FCHSC
Coordinator, GENEii Family History Writing Contest
Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 GENEii Family History Writers
Contest! Many thanks to the 59 authors who collectively contributed 79 entries,
making this the largest GENEii contest ever. All of the winning submissions
will be published in The Searcher during 2014 and 2015 at the
editors discretion; the preliminary dates of publication are indicated
below. The submissions will also appear on the SCGS website after they appear
in The Searcher.
Category 1: submissions from 1,000 to 2,000 words
- First
Place: "Mom's Life" -- John R. Catsis, Silver City, New
Mexico - Summer 2014
- Second
Place: "First the Chicken" -- Joyce Finn, Bluffton, South
Carolina - Winter 2015
- Third
Place: "Locked Out" -- DeVonna R. Allison, Burr Oak, Michigan
- Spring 2015
- Runner
Up: "Varrone" -- Nick Sweet, Shepherd, Texas - Winter
2015
- Honorable
Mention: "Uncle John Burleson" -- Jim McLaughlin,Kerrville,
Texas - Fall 2014
- Honorable
Mention: "Paw Prints on Combat Soldiers' Hearts" -- Robert
R. Robeson, Lincoln, Nebraska - Spring 2015
Category 2: submissions under 1,000 words
- First
Place: "Ground Zero" -- Jerry Eckert, Vail, Arizona
- Summer 2014
- Second
Place: "November 22" -- Evan Guilford-Blake, Stone Mountain,
Georgia - Fall 2014
- Third
Place: "Christmas Kerfluffle" -- Marla F. Jones, Yukon,
Oklahoma - Winter 2015
- Runner
Up: "My Grandfather's Grave" -- Thomas L. Stepp, Columbia,
South Carolina - Fall 2014
- Honorable
Mention: "A Visit to New Orleans" -- Joyce Roberson, West
Hills, California - Spring 2015
- Honorable
Mention: "A Mountain Rose" -- Felicia Johnson, Ocklawaha,
Florida - Summer 2014
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