The Modern Family Numbering contest closes Friday at midnight EDT, so get your entry in today! You need not watch Modern Family to enter. Not even once. The links below take you to all the information you need. Look at what you could win:
A DNA test courtesy of AncestryDNA 
or a 37-marker Y-DNA test courtesy of FamilyTreeDNA 
or a copy of Mastering Genealogical Proof by Thomas W. Jones, courtesy of the National Genealogical Society.
ABC’s TV series Modern Family features a blended family like those we encounter in real life. SpringBoard challenges readers to number a genealogy of Modern Family’s characters as if they were a real family. The first-place winner may choose among the three prizes above. The second- and third-place winners will choose from the remaining two prizes.
Rules:
- Contest is open to all persons eighteen years and older. You need not be Board-certified to enter or win. Trustees of the Board for Certification of Genealogists are not eligible to win.
- Contest will run from 1 June 2016 to midnight 1 July 2016, Eastern Daylight Time. Email your entry in a stable format to . Include your full name and mailing address.
- Void where prohibited.
- Watching Modern Family is not required. Online resources are offered below. No purchase is necessary.
- Entries must follow the NGS Quarterly System as demonstrated in Numbering Your Genealogy (Joan Ferris Curran, Madilyn Coen Crane, and John H. Wray, Numbering Your Genealogy: Basic Systems, Complex Families, and International Kin, ed. Elizabeth Shown Mills, rev. ed. [Arlington, Va.: National Genealogical Society, 2008]). This system is also used for the examples in the SpringBoard numbering posts (links below) and in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.
- Jay Pritchett is the starting point person, individual number 1.
- All regularly appearing characters in Modern Family must be included.
- Entries must include genealogical sketches comprised, where appropriate, of a character’s
- name
- individual number
- generation number
- birth-order number
- parenthetical summary of descent
- birth and marriage information (with missing or unknown information indicated by ellipses [ . . . ])
- spouse information
- child list
- Extensive biographical information is discouraged.
- Accuracy of numbering relationships will determine the winner. Accuracy of formatting, interest of presentation, and earliest date of receipt of entry will break ties.
- Decision of the judges is final.
Resources:
- Springboard numbering posts: Numbering 2, Numbering Adoptees, Numbering 3, Numbering 4
- Numbering Your Genealogy is available in hard copy and pdf from the National Genealogical Society online store.
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