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Looking into lasting ways to share your family’s story? How about a book?

You could win a family history publishing package in a contest from Family
Tree Magazine and custom publisher Abbott
Press (our fellow member of the F+W Media family). 

To enter, just e-mail
us your name, phone number, and 500 words or less about why your family history
should be chosen as the contest winner.

Did your ancestors embody the American dream? Were they important in shaping historic
events? Is your family tree full of colorful characters? You tell us what sets your
family apart.

Use the e-mail subject line “Family Tree-Abbott Press Publishing Contest” and send
your entry by Sept. 30, 2011.

We’ll pick one winner from the first 200 submissions. The grand-prize winner will
receive a complete Premium publishing package from Abbott Press.

The first runner-up will win the Family Tree University independent study course Writing
Your Family Memoir (on CD). A second runner-up with get a copy of My
Life & Times: A Guided Journal for Collecting Your Stories by Sunny Jane
Morton.

All entrants will receive a 25 percent discount off any Abbott Press publishing
package.

Check
out all the contest rules here.