The winners of the National Genealogical Society’s awards in excellence of genealogy and family history newsletter editorship can offer ideas and inspiration to genealogy societies who want to spruce up their own newsletters. NGS announced the winners yesterday. Although recent issues of the winners’ newsletters are not available on their website for non-members, a copy can usually be had for not much more than the price of postage.
Winner of the Family Association Newsletter: The Timen Stiddem Society Newsletter, San Diego, California.
Winner of the County/Local Genealogical and/or Historical Society, for societies with less than 500 members: The Tracer, Hamilton County Genealogical Society, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Major Genealogical and/or Historical Society, for societies with more than 500 members: PastFinder, the newsletter of the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group, Mountain View, California, and Der Blumenbaum, the newsletter of the Sacramento German Genealogical Society, Sacramento, California. PastFinder issues from 2009 to 2012 are available online.
The complete list of winners and honourable mentions is available on the NGS blog, UPFront with NGS.
Congratulations to the winners. These folks know how to do it.
