NGS Announces 2006 Writing and Editing Award Recipients

The following is an announcement from the U.S. National Genealogical Society:

*/National Genealogical Society Quarterly/ Award for Excellence*

Marya C. Myers, CG, won for her article in the March 2005 issue of the
/NGS Quarterly/

(Volume 93, No. 1) entitled “One Benjamin Tuell or Two in Late
Eighteenth-Century

Rhose Island? Manuscripts and a Timeline Provide the Answer.”

*National Genealogical Society Family History Writing Contest (original
manuscript)*

Richard Tolman for “The Life and Times of English Immigrant Priscilla
Clark Pickett Wilford”

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*National Genealogical Society Award for Excellence: Genealogy and
Family History (published book)*

/Quirke Genealogy and Family History of Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland/

Terence T. Quirke, Jr., Ph.D., F.I.G.R.S.

*Winners of the NGS Newsletter Competition*

County/Local Genealogical/Historical Society
GRIVA
Pub Title: /GRIVA News & Notes; /Editor: Sharon Garber
President: Andrew Hogwood

Major Genealogical/and or Historical Society
Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York
Pub Title: /Nuestra Herencia (Our Heritage); /Editor: Debbie Figueroa
President: Jorge Camunas

Family Association
The Morse Society
Pub Title: /The Morse Society Newsletter; /Editor: Taylor D. Morse III
President: Stafford-Ames Morse

*Honorable Mentions Newsletter Competition

*Family Associations
Seeley Genealogical Society
Pub: /Seeley Genealogical Society Newsletter; /Editor: W. Paul Taylor
President: James R. Seeley

County/Local Genealogical/Historical Society
South Bend Area Genealogical Society
Pub: /South Bend Area Genealogical Society Newsletter; /Editor: Nancy Myers
President: William H. Minish

Major Genealogical and/or Historical Society
Ohio Genealogical Society
Pub: /OGS Genealogy News; /Editor: Sue Zacharias
President: Diane Gagel