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• The International Society for Family History Writers
  and Editors (ISFHWE) has announced this year’s winners of its annual Excellence
  in Writing competition—and we’re thrilled to report first prize in the articles category
  goes to our own Sunny Jane Morton, for her December 2011 Family Tree Magazine article
  “Blue Collar Breakthroughs.” In this article, Sunny explains how to research employment
  records of workers in the railroad, automobile and other industries. (You can get
  the December
  2011 print issue here or the December
  2011 digital download issue here.)

Congratulations to all the ISFHWE competition winners—you
can see their names here!

• Shazami Design has released a Windows phone app called ThinkGenealogy,
  which aims to guide you through the research process. It features a research “map,”
  shows how important concepts are related, explains the Genealogical Proof Standard,
  provides a glossary of genealogical terms and more. You
  can watch a video about how to use the app on YouTube  and purchase
  the app for $1.99 here. 

• Here’s an interesting new product I saw at last week’s FGS conference: The
  Heirloom Registry offers uniquely numbered labels (starting at 10 for $10) you
  affix to your family heirlooms, then you enter information about each heirloom in
  an online heirloom registry. Anyone who finds the labeled heirloom in the future can
  then go online and enter the number to access the details about it. Click
  here to learn more about how it works.

• The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS)
  has promoted five-year staff member Ryan Woods to NEHGS assistant vice president for
  the website and library. Woods will oversee www.AmericanAncestors.org and
  the Boston-based NEHGS library, bringing those two areas into greater alignment with
  each other.