The Lucy Marshall Award

This award for a "how to" article in the NZSG magazine was set up to honour our founding member Lucy Marshall who called a meeting in 1967 from which the Society was formed. Lucy was President of the NZSG October 1967 - February 1970, Vice-President February 1970-1971 and Editor of the Newsletter and The New Zealand Genealogist 1967-1986. Lucy continued her interest in the Society and regularly attended Branch meetings until she passed away in 2020.

Purpose

The Lucy Marshall Award was introduced to encourage all members to share their "how to" experiences with others.

Criteria

The work must be the original work of the submitter sharing their ‘how to’ experience.
The author must be an individual person who is a current financial member of the NZSG at the time the article is published.
The article must have been published in The New Zealand Genealogist during the previous calendar year, must be previously unpublished, and be of no less than 500 words.
It must explain in depth a source or sources for an area of research and its use, explain the reasons why the information is valuable or significant and state where the source or sources are located and how the information can be accessed.
It is desirable for a bibliography to be included.

Presentation

The award and the Prize of $100.00 is to be presented at the NZSG Annual General Meeting.

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

2024 Winner

Paul Hickford #13587 for “Unravelling the life of My Greek Uncle”, published in the March 2023 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist.

The judges commented: This well written article was given an Excellent by one of the judges. Whilst being more about a person it did highlight sources in a geographical area not many are searching and thus finding the sources was well done.

Previous Winners

2023: Sue Dinsdale #23527 – ‘The Genealogy of a Building – The Tunnel Store, Northland, Wellington’. December 2022 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2022: Paul Hickford #13587 – ‘Mum’s cryptic clue that we missed’. April 2021 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2021: Pauline Weeks #23015 – ‘Remembering Women who served in World War II’. December 2020 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist; Same Jaffe #27695 – ‘Searching for Nate’. April 2020 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2020: Jennifer Clark #3781 – ‘How DNA and digitized records can help with your family research’. April 2019 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2019: Pamela McKirdy #9224 – ‘How to use birth, death and marriage databases – a comparison’. February 2018 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2018: Jennifer Clark #3781 - 'Breaking two brick walls in two days - thanks to FTDNA'. February 2017 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2017: Rob Aspden #2560 - 'Search for the McArthurs'. April 2016 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2016: Don Auckram #7733 - 'A Foote in the Past'. August 2015 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2015: Alan Penney #728 - 'Using Land Tax Assessments, 1780-1832'. August 2014 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2014: Bev James #16435 - 'Finding the French Connection'. August 2013 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2013: Jennifer Clark #337 - 'The Search for Joan Watson'. Jan/Feb 2012 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2012: Donald Hansen #1356 - 'Forgotten but not gone: some early New Zealand census returns'. May/June 2011 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2011: Keith Vautier #21684 - 'Digital Archive for Family History Part II'. May/June 2010 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2010: Geraldene O'Reilly #14240 - 'Portrait of a Parish'. May/June 2009 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2009: Alex Eastwood #13948 - 'The Search for Louis Gilbert Eastwood's recorded birth'. Nov/Dec 2008 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2008: Alan Penney #728 - 'A farm at Blo Norton'. Jan/Feb 2007 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist
2007: Noeline McLaren #17384 - 'Howzat - Spare Time with Ancestry.co'. May/June 2006 issue of The New Zealand Genealogist

09/07/2024