Kevin McAnulty Award

The Kevin McAnulty Award is for a published Family History and was set up to honour the memory of Kevin McAnulty who served on the Council of the NZSG from 1986 to 1992 and set up projects on a more formal basis. Kevin was particularly interested in the writing of family histories and that they were referenced correctly. Sadly he passed away suddenly in 1992 before completing his own family history.

Purpose

This award is to encourage members to publish their family histories, to foster scholarly publication and to deposit a copy of completed works in the NZSG Library. The publication may be in the form of a hard copy book, an optical disc or an e-book. Any family history donated to the NZSG Library within the past calendar year will be evaluated.

Criteria

The donor must be the author and be a financial member of the NZSG at the time of selection, and have been a member at the time of publication.
The family which is the subject of the family history must be related to the author.
If the publication is co-authored, one of the authors must be a financial member of the NZSG at the time of selection and have been a member at the time of publication.
On the recommendation of an Evaluation Panel, more than one publication may be selected for an award in any one year so long as they meet the award criteria.
As a guide, when considering each publication, the Evaluation Panel is looking for:

content
layout and presentation
production and research
style and literary merit
completeness – including title page, contents listing, bibliography, reference and source citations

And all publications must include both contents and an index. However, in a digital publication "contents" may be in a different format, and an “index” may mean that the publication is searchable.

Presentation

The award is to be presented at the NZSG Annual General Meeting.

If the recipient is not present, a letter, the certificate, bookplate and copy of the citation is to be presented at another genealogical function or sent directly to the recipient by the NZSG Manager.

2024 Winner

Christine Headford #13983 and Christine M Gill (ex-member #29567) for 'The Family of Harry Sangster Hill'.

The judges note: Once again the award is won by joint authors. This book is well deserving of the award. It ticked almost all the boxes, was extensively researched and fully sourced. The index includes places as well as names, and although no separate bibliography was listed, many books are included in the source lists. There is an excellent collection of photographs, documents, maps and other illustrations.

Previous Winners

2023: Robyn Spurdle #9255 and Julie Daymond-King - 'Building the Future'
2022: Merle Mounsey #19793 - 'Richmond Recollections'
2021: Russell Tregonning #27879 - 'They Made Me'; Carolyn Adams #26177 - 'One Family at a Time'
2020: Tony Millet #3126 - 'Millet of Bosavern and Marazion Biographical Notes - Third Edition'
2019: Carolyn Norgate-Crandall #7925 - 'Norgate Family Origins'
2018: Robyn Spurdle #9255 and Jan Bedingfield - 'Milling the Family Tree'; Mary Anne Miller #7673 - 'Meeting Different Winds'; Elizabeth Cowie #27008 and Anne Brady #8403 - 'The Millar Family of Tokoiti'
2017: Cynthia McCaughan #24446 - 'To Live a Long and Prosperous Life'
2016: Judy Knox #26021 - 'The Knewstubbs of Port Chalmers'
2015: Maureen Bruning #12195 - ‘To Seek My Fortune: Bruning family history from Mecklenburg to Moutere’; Tim Shoebridge #17595 - 'The Enrights of Pawarenga: a family story'; Pam Slay #10805 - 'Four spades by a jack: the complete story of Gwen & Les Gardner 1910-2006'
2014: Ian Barton #4264 - ‘The Shuker Story’; David Harrop #18493 - ‘The Wanganui Maxwells 1814-1966’; Brian Davies #12085 - ‘They ventured Forth, a history of the Aitken and Davies families’
2013: Bryan Jackson #21684 - 'The Jarden Family'
2012: Maurice E Bath #17369 - 'Just Ordinary People'
2011: Bryan Jackson #21684 - 'The Life and Times of Joseph Le Cleh'
2010: Geoff Hall #10806 - 'One Coastline'; Robert Irwin #22578 - 'From Ballygawley to Timaru'; Michael Butler #13995 - 'The Luxford Saga'
2009: Paul Hickford #13587 - 'The Hickford Family'
2008: Margaret Howie-Pask & Jean Leyland #17406 - 'A Green Family from Shropshire'
2007: Brian McClintock #12104 - 'McClintock. The Irish Connection'

09/07/2024