I love prizes....

....and I won 14th prize in the Raffle at the Shoalhaven Family History Fair on the weekend. It was made up of three books and two free family passes to The Lady Denman Museum.

After that recent success I am all fired up and on the lookout for prizes. As I am attending the Unlock the Past Expo in Brisbane next week I took a look to see if there are nay prizes on offer at that event and here is what I found.

It's worth going just to have a chance at winning the prizes

• 4 - Archive Digital Books Australia CDs
        - Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886-88 - value $59.50
        - Australian Handbook 1900 - value $27.50
        - Pugh's Almanac and Queensland Directory 19th Century Set 1859-1900 - value $460
        - Fox's History of Queensland - value $79.50
• Baptist Heritage Queensland      - Queensland Baptist 1903-1913 (CD) - value $47.50
        - Queensland Baptist Association Year Books 1921-1930 (CD) - value $34.50
        - So! Your ancestor was a Baptist in Queensland AND Fortitude: Dr Lang's Vision for Queensland - value $13
• Clean Cruising
        - A $100 Cruise Travel voucher
• 2 - Family Photo Book vouchers - value $20 each
• Findmypast subscriptions
        - 1 findmypast.com.au 12 month subscription
        - 1 findmypast.co.uk 12 month subscription
        - 1 findmypast.ie 12 month subscription
        - also running a lucky draw to win a new World Subscription (at the findmypast exhibitor area)
• Flip-Pal mobile book scanner - Creative Suite - value $249.50
• FotoMasters -  gift voucher for a FotoRama 9 - value $285
• Friends of Toowong Cemetery      - 2 Toowong Cemetery 140th Anniversary DVDs - value $25 each
• Genealogical Society of Queensland
        - 1 year's membership of GSQ - value $71.50
        - Free attendance at Annual Seminar 25 August Across the seas they came 19th & early 20th century migrants -
          value $60 non-members, $50 members
        - Free CD of choice from GSQ's Funeral Directors series - value $55
        - Queensland Muster Part 1 - CD of selected pioneers living in Queensland between 1859 and 1901
          and a copy of the book Queensland Pioneers 1859-1901 - total value $63.95
        - 6 free passes to GSQ's Saturday morning education sessions - range in topics and presenters - total value $78 for
          non-members
• Genealogical Society of Queensland Convict Connections CD
        - Index to NSW Colonial Secretary's Office Copies of Letters Sent to Sheriffs 5 Jul 1828 - 31 Dec 1850 - value $50.00
• 2 - Gould Genealogy & History vouchers - details to be advised
• Inside History 12 month subscriptions - details to be advised
• 1 - National Institute for Genealogical Studies 9 course package - value approx $850. The package includes 4 Methodology courses (Getting Started, Getting Organized, The Internet, FamilySearch), and an Analysis & Skills Mentoring course and 4 record courses in a country stream of the winner's choice (choose from American, Australian, Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish and German).
• Queensland Family History Society
        - 1 year's membership of QFHS ($73 which includes the joining fee)
        - 2 vouchers which allow the winner to select a QFHS CD to the value of $49.50
        - 1 voucher which allows the winner to select a CD from the Queensland School Pupils Series (value $49.50)
        - 1 voucher which allows the winner to select a CD from the Commonwealth Electoral Roll (Queensland) Series
          (value $49.50)
        - 1 Queensland Founding Families book set ($110.00)
• Queensland Prison & Penal Historical Association
        - 2 double passes of a day OR moonlight tour of St Helena Island
          (donated by Brisbane Bay Tours and Queensland Prison & Penal Historical Association)
        - 2 signed copies of award winning St Helena Island, Moreton Bay - An historical account - value $49.95 each 
• 2 - Unlock the Past History & Genealogy: Australia & New Zealand 2011