BEVERLY M. PAULSON
FAMILY HISTORY AWARD
2007 Seventeenth Annual Award

The Heritage Education Commission has established the Beverly Paulson Family History Award in conjunction with the annual Family History Workshop. This award is designed to encourage local genealogists to submit printed or duplicated documents such as diaries, journals, or memoirs. The Commission values such reminiscences since these documents often comprise the first step in developing more extensive family histories, are useful to local and regional historians, and are sometimes of intrinsic literary value.

The winners of this award will be announced during the luncheon at the 32nd AnnualFamily History Workshop on October 6, 2007, and the winning entries will be placed in the Commission's permanent collection. There is a $25.00 honorarium to the winner of this award. All entries will be displayed in the Family History Booth during the workshop, and those entries not purchased will be returned to the owners only if adequate postage and mailer are provided.

Participants may submit diaries, memoirs, or journals more than once. Since an unusual number of fine entries may be submitted in any one year, entries not purchased one year may receive the purchase award another year. The Commission welcomes donations of entries if owners do not wish to resubmit them for the award.

GENERAL RULES
  1. Entries should be submitted with a completed entry form to the Heritage Education Commission, Box 82, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, 56563.
    Participants should not, of course, submit their only copy of a diary, memoir, or journal.
  2. Entries must be received by September 6, 2007.
  3. Entries must be in printed or duplicated form.
  4. All sources must be carefully documented. Copyrighted material must include a note indicating copyright owner’s permission to republish. If there are any questions, contact Chandice Johnson, 705  13th  Avenue N., Apt. 223, Fargo, N.D. 58102-2680; email: chandice@msn.com; phone: (701) 280-0180.
  5. Award winners must submit a completed entry form which clarifies copyright ownership issues and defines the terms and conditions under which their winning entry is donated to the Heritage Education Commission.
  6. Judges reserve the right to withhold an award for any particular year.

CRITERIA FOR JUDGING

In addition to the above General Rules and to the following considerations, the usefulness of the submitted work to family, local or regional historians is a major factor in judging those works. In most cases this usefulness would require an Index or possibly a detailed table of contents.

CATEGORY: DIARIES, MEMOIRS, OR JOURNALS

Entries will be judged on the following:

  1. Quality of entries.
  2. Extensiveness of entries.
  3. Narrative content and writing style.

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Heritage Education Commission
Box 82 Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, MN 56563
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Updated August 4, 2007