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History Writers and Editors

 

2003 Contest Winners
 
(for articles and columns published/written in 2002)

Category 1 (newspaper columns)

1st Place: Martha Everman Jones, Victoria, Texas, "Church Records Are Great Research Tool" appeared in "Relatively Speaking" The Victoria Advocate, Victoria, Texas, on 31 March 2002

2nd Place: Carole Osborne Cole, Bountiful, Utah, "Getting the Proper Family History Perspective" appeared in "Family History Mysteries" Davis County Clipper, Bountiful, Utah on 21 May 2002

3rd Place: Carole Osborne Cole, Bountiful, Utah, "Winter Weeding is Now in Order" appeared in "Family History Mysteries" Davis County Clipper, Bountiful, Utah on 15 January 2002

Category 2 (published articles and magazine columns)

1st Place: Amy Johnson Crow, Reynoldsburg, Ohio — "Finding Family History on the Internet" appeared in the Oct/Nov/Dec 2002 issue of Genealogical Computing

2nd Place: Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, Williamsburg, Virginia — "DNA Testing Dispels a Genealogical Myth" appeared in the May/June 2002 issue of Everton's Family History Magazine

3rd Place: Barbara Krasner-Khait, Somerset, New Jersey — "Cane River: From Oral History to Best-selling Novel" appeared in the July/August 2002 issue of Ancestry

Category 3 (Original, unpublished research story)

1st Place: Connie Lenzen, Portland, Oregon — 
" 'The Wrong Kind' — A Family Skeleton"

2nd Place: Betty L. Malesky, Green Valley, Arizona — 
"The Search for Mary Emma Hopkins' Ancestry"

3rd Place: Richard F. Robinson, Delray Beach, Florida — 
"Genealogical Dilemma: A Haystack Full of Needles!"

Category 4 (Want-to-be Writers/Columnists)

1st Place: Nancy Ann Calhoun, Ninnekah, Oklahoma — 
"Shakin' Out the Smiths"

2nd Place: Millie Hinkle, Little Rock, Arkansas —
 "Mildred Catherine Washenburger 1868-1941"

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