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International Society of Family

History Writers and Editors

 

2005 Contest Winners
 (for articles and columns published/written in 2004)

Category I—Newspaper Columns
1 Joan A. Griffis "WWI Draft Registrations Helpful for Genealogists"
    (Champaign, Illinois) News-Gazette, 26 Aug 2004
2 Ernest Thode "Drawing a Portrait of Family Health" Marietta (Ohio) Times, 22 Dec 2004.
3 Joan A. Griffis "Colonial Ancestor Was 'Killed Strangely'" (Champaign, Illinois) News-Gazette, 5 Feb 2004
   
Category II—Published  Articles  
1 Judith Q. McMullen Indiana's Lincoln: Oral History Gathered by the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society during the "Lincoln Inquiry," 1920-1927. The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol. 43, No. 4
2 Diane Rapaport "The Case of the Scottish Rogue" New England Ancestors, Holiday 2004
3 Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak "Finding Homes for Orphan Heirlooms" Family Chronicle, July/August 2004, Fa
     
Category IIII—Original Research Story
1 Gail S. Smith "Little Immigrant Lost: Finding Dad, a British Home Child"
2 Jacquelyn W. Palmer "Two Negro Boys Named Elizah and Frank:   The Search for My Slave Roots"
3 Bill Roushey, Jr. "Heinrich's Skeleton in the Rauschenberger Closet"
   
Category IV—Want-to-be-Writer/Columnist
1 Debra Braverman "My Grandmother's Passport"
2 Trish Sowards (no title)

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