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A full list of known Family History Fairs, events and activities can be found on the online calendar of GENEVA (GENealogical EVents and Activities).
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The FFHS Web Award
For the Society with the Best Website
Winners - 2010
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 |
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| Commended: | |
| Botany Bay FHS Inc East Surrey FHS Rugby FH Group The Filby Association |
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Graham Taylor-Paddick, chairman of Buckinghamshire FHS,
who were awarded 1st Place in the Large Societies class
Christine Hancock receiving the award on behalf of Rugby FHS
who were Commended
Randal Gill President North of Ireland FHS
receiving the 2nd place award for Large Societies
Brenda Hawkins of East Surrey FHS
who were Commended
Maureen Selley, Chairman of Devon FHS,
receiving the award for Highly Commended
Alan Betts, Webmaster of Burntwood FHG who were Highly Commended
Mark Filby of The Filby Association who were Commended
Graeme Rose, president of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies
and Lady Teviot presenting the certificate for Highly Commended to
Linda Price, their webmaster
Lady Teviot presenting the certificate for 2nd place for Small Societies
to David Feather, webmaster of Keighley & District FHS
Pat Fearnley, webmaster of Botany Bay FHS, receiving her
'Commended' award from Pauline Litton, Vice President of the FFHS
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.