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The FFHS Web Award

For the Society with the Best Website

Winners - 2010

Overall Winner
Liana Fitzpatrick, President of Western Australian Genealogical Society,
presenting the winner's certificate to their webmaster, Chris Loudon

 

Overall Winner
  Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc
UK Large Societies
1st: Buckinghamshire FHS
2nd: North of Ireland FHS
Small Societies
1st: The Families In British India Society
2nd: Keighley & District FHS
Highly Commended:
  Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc
Burntwood FH Group
Devon FHS
East of London FHS
Commended:
  Botany Bay FHS Inc
East Surrey FHS
Rugby FH Group
The Filby Association

 

award winner
Graham Taylor-Paddick, chairman of Buckinghamshire FHS,
who were awarded 1st Place in the Large Societies class

award winner
Christine Hancock receiving the award on behalf of Rugby FHS
who were Commended

award winner
Randal Gill President North of Ireland FHS
receiving the 2nd place award for Large Societies

award winner
Brenda Hawkins of East Surrey FHS
who were Commended

award winner
Maureen Selley, Chairman of Devon FHS,
receiving the award for Highly Commended

award winner
Alan Betts, Webmaster of Burntwood FHG who were Highly Commended

award winner
Mark Filby of The Filby Association who were Commended

award winner
Graeme Rose, president of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies
and Lady Teviot presenting the certificate for Highly Commended to
Linda Price, their webmaster

award winner
Lady Teviot presenting the certificate for 2nd place for Small Societies
to David Feather, webmaster of Keighley & District FHS

award winner
Pat Fearnley, webmaster of Botany Bay FHS, receiving her
'Commended' award from Pauline Litton, Vice President of the FFHS

award winner
Valmay Young, Webmaster, being presented with her award by Peter Bailey,
Chairman of the Families in British India Society (FIBIS) at their AGM


Extract from the Report of the Chairman of the Judges

 

All the candidate sites provided well thought out and well maintained offerings with good coverage of the society, its resources and activities — that is, all these sites are fulfilling their core function. But most are doing a lot more, particularly in terms of providing reference information and data for both members and non-members.

In many cases, the sites have links to services hosted elsewhere, such as a society Facebook page or discussion forums, which raises the question of whether we might in future judge the best “web presence” rather than just the “web site”.

A very welcome development is the increasing number of societies who offer the facility to join or renew a subscription online, which can only have a positive effect on membership numbers.

It is interesting, too, to note the use of calendar plug-ins as a way of providing an events listing with quite sophisticated features but which doesn’t demand too much development time from the webmaster.