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AFFHO Award for Meritorious Service to Family History
At each triennial Congress we award the AFFHO Award for Meritorious Service to Family History. Nominations are received from member societies and winners are chosen by council.
June Penny recieved the award for 2012, which was presented at the Congress Dinner in Adelaide.
Our Congratulations are extended to June.
The Nick Vine Hall Award
AFFHO has introduced this award to promote family history journals newsletters, and also to honour the memory of Nick Vine Hall, AM, who did so much to retain the census in Australia and to bring genealogy to the forefront through his radio broadcasts
2009
Category A - 1st The Endeavour, Botany Bay Family History Society
2nd Newcastle Journal, Newcastle Family History Society
Category B - 1st Ancestor, Genealogical Society of Victoria
2nd The Ancestral Searcher, The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra
2010
Category A - 1st The Compass, Adelaide Northern Districts Family History Group.
2nd The Murrumbidgee Ancestor, Wagga Wagga and District Family History Society
Category B - 1st Queensland Family Historian, Queensland Family History Society
2nd The Ancestral Searcher, The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra
2011
Category A - 1st Footsteps, Port Macquarie and Districts Family History Society
2nd Spreading Branches, Narre Warren and District Family History Society
2012
Category A - 1st Kith & Kin, Cape Banks Family History Society
2nd Dust of Ages, Armidale Family History Group
Category B - 1st Ancestor, The Genealogical Society of Victoria
2nd The Ancestral Searcher, The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra
2013 Awards
First Prize -
$300 to Society with a wall plaque.
Second Prize - $100 and certificate
Editors - Certificate
The Nick Vine Hall Award will be judged and the award announced in National Family History Week.
Please download the conditions of entry and the entry form