Tonight Randy Seaver of Saturday Night Genealogy Fun fame should be saying, "And the winner is . . . ." while he opens an envelope.
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along; cue the Mission: Impossible! music!):
(1) Does anyone recall the Academy of Genealogy and Family History (AGFH) awards from back in the 2008–2012 timeframe, hosted by Jasia on Creative gene? Geneabloggers would nominate blog entries in different categories, and Jasia would collect all of them with links to each blogger's post. The bloggers selected their own posts for nominations.
(3) Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link in a comment to this post.
I have never heard of the AGFH awards or Jasia before, but I can play along. Not only does this sound fun, but I get to use Blogger's endless page that I just complained about yesterday!
• Best Picture
This is (probably) a photograph of my great-great-grandparents Avigdor and Esther Leah (Schneiderman) Gorodetsky and their oldest child, Etta, taken in Kamenets Podolsky, Russian Empire, circa 1890. It's my oldest family photo and my favorite. I posted it on April 4 for a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge.
• Best Screenplay
On January 3 I wrote about the long, twisting path I took over about 20 years to find my great-great-grandmother Ruchel Dwojre (Jaffe) Brainin and her three youngest children immigrating to the United States, the last members of that part of my family to do so. It had drama! Comedy! Suspense!
• Best Documentary
I didn't have any series of research posts, so I'll have to go with my Wordless Wednesday photo collection. Those document the past, right?
• Best Biography
On July 23, I wrote about my maternal grandfather, whose birthday was July 23.
• Best Comedy
I also didn't write any comedy posts last year, so I'll have to settle for this goofy photo of me with my sling, posted on September 2, about a week after my shoulder surgery.
Since you would like to do this every year, you'll have to think about series and comedies. You had some great posts.
ReplyDeleteRats, I knew there was a catch! Does that mean I have to play to the audience? I'll have to start working on those.
DeleteI remember your post with that photo. My favorite part is Etta sitting on the podium.
ReplyDeleteShe does look adorable, doesn't she? I have to make sure I sent copies of that photo to my various cousins in Ottawa, her descendants.
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