QFHS Awards 2005

Conditions of Entry

The award is non-monetary but will include 12 months' free Ordinary membership of the Society

1. Entries must be submitted to the Family History Award Sub-Committee of the Queensland Family History Society Inc. by 30 November each year. Selection and presentation will be made the following year at the Annual General Meeting.

2. All entries submitted remain the property of the Society and will be housed in the Society library after judging. Each entry will have a special label indicating that it was entered for the award.

3. All entries must be in recognised book form (duplicated, offset printed, typeset etc) with paper or hard covers, and be issued in an edition of two or more copies.

4. An entry for this Award must have significant Queensland content and must be the story of a family, not an individual.

5. Entries need not have been written during the current year, but should have been published no earlier than five years ago.

6. The judging panel will give fair consideration to all eligible entries each year, irrespective of the production method used.

7. Authors may submit more than one entry in any year if they wish.

8. The Society has the right to publicise winning entries where the Award may be receiving public notice or acknowledgment.

9. The Society reserves the right to refuse any entry considered unsuitable. Enquiries.

As a guideline to entrants, the following points are intended to make them aware of the judging considerations. However, they are not to be taken to be stipulations of entry.