Family Story Writing Contest - 2008
deadline - postmarked by 8 Jan 2008
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Many family reunions and visits to areas where ancestors lived spark memories of family events. We hope you have considered writing a family story to preserve these memories that can vanish like dust in the wind.
Creating a story can be rewarding yet demanding and time consuming. Helpful hints offered here, especially for the first time writer, can also be of help to the experienced writer.
1. Begin the writing project with an introduction to place your family in historical context. What is the time period? What else was happening in the world? How did the family come to be at the location where you first introduce them?
2. Present details of the event in the body of the story. You may want to enhance the story by adding anecdotes found in personal diaries or letters or related to you by a relative.
3. Write a conclusion.
The Oklahoma Genealogical Society’s Family Story Writing Contest provides the opportunity for researchers to share special family stories with fellow genealogists. The stories may be historically or ethnically important, humorous, or just plain interesting.
Eligibility:
All family historians/genealogists are invited to submit their favorite story or stories. There is a special category for students, age 15 or younger. Current Oklahoma Genealogical Board members are not eligible.
Rules:
1. Stories must be typed and double-spaces on 8.5" x 11" paper. The story title and page number must be typed in top right hand corner of each page.
2. Provide a separate cover page that includes the story title, your name, and your mailing address.
3. Stories should be 3000 words or less and indicate that you have researched the events by citing your resources. Family group sheets and pedigree charts can be included if pertinent.
4. Stories must be original and unpublished.
5. Send four (4) copies of the story postmarked by January 8,
2008 to:
OGS Family Story Writing Contest - 2008
P. O. Box 12986
Oklahoma City, OK 73157
* Entries may also be submitted at a regularly scheduled society meeting.
Click
here for printable entry form to submit in the Family Story Writing
Contest
For additional information, contact Sharon
Burns
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