THE THIRD ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE

It's time once again for the Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge. Those
who are long time readers of my blog will notice I've changed the
title of the challenge from The Great American Genealogy Poetry &
Song Challenge to The Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge. I made the
change for two reasons:

One, to include geneabloggers from other countries  and two, it's a
danged lot easier to type out!

What hasn't changed are the rules,. so I can be lazy and cut and paste
a nice chunk from last year:

So, my challenge to my readers is this:

1. Find a poem by a local poet, famous or obscure, from the region
one of your ancestors lived in. It can be about an historical event, a
legend, a person, or even about some place (like a river)or a local
animal. It can even be a poem you or one of your ancestors have written!
Or if you prefer, post the lyrics of a song or a link to a video
of someone performing the song.


2. Post the poem or song to your blog (remembering to cite the source
where you found it.)

3.Tell us how the subject of the poem or song relates to your ancestor's
home or life.

4.Submit your post's link here to me by November 20thth and I'll publish
all the entries on Thanksgiving Day, November 24th!

If  you submit a humorous poem or song that will be entered under the
"Willy Puckerbrush" division. Willy was the late geneablogger Terry
Thornton's alias for some humorous posts and comments.



So there you have it. There's over a month until the deadline so there's
plenty of time for a Google search for poems and songs. I'm looking
forward to seeing what the geneablogging community comes up with
for me this year!