Genealogy Award for Young People

Competition Winners

The prizes for the Genealogist award for young people were presented at the FFHS Conference "A flight of Yesterdays" on Saturday 28th August.

S&N sponsored the award presenting the Federation with cheques for £2000. This enabled the competition to be publicised at family history events.

Preserving our family histories will always be in the hands of a new generation of genealogists and it's up to all of us to encourage them.

Susan and Nigel Bayley of S&N presenting the first prize to Jonathan Kettle.

First prize winners received a cheque from the Federation for £100 plus £200 in S&N vouchers. The second prize was a cheque for £50 plus £50 in S&N vouchers and the third prize winners received a vcheque for £25 plus £10 of S&N vouchers.

The winning entries could be viewed at the conference. A high standard of work was achieved by all ages.

Under 14 Category
1st Prize Lauren Steele age 11
2nd Prize Charli Watkins age 13
3rd prize Lucy Goldsmith age 8

Over 14 Category
1st prize went Jonathan Kettle age 16
2nd prize Ieuan Wyn-Jones age 16
3rd Andrew Crawford age 18

They had to submit a story of 300-500 words about their family history with pedigree trees, certificates and photographs. The work had to be entirely their own and validated by a teacher.

Entrants had to write a story about a character or family history event that was of interest to them.