2006 Contest Winners
(for articles and columns
published/written in 2005)
Category I - Newspaper Columns:
First place: Mary Penner, "Draft registration cards can yield a battery of
facts." Albuquerque Tribune Online, 22 Sept 2005.
Second place: James Beidler, "Portraying ancestors makes history come
alive." Altoona (Pennsylvania) Mirror, 25 Dec 2005.
Third place (tie): Martha Everman Jones, "Early settlers' land grants."
Victoria (Texas) Advocate, 12 June 2005.
Third place (tie): Betty Malesky, "Don't forget the women." Green Valley
(Arizona) News & Sun, 16 March 2005.
Category II - Published Articles:
First place: Peter Sleeth, "The Underground Railroad and the Marshall Family
of Economy, Indiana." The Hoosier Genealogist, Fall 2005.
Second place: Diane Rapaport, "The Strange Case of Mary Rosse and Her 'Enthusiastical
Power.'" New England Ancestors, Holiday 2005.
Third place: Mary Blair Immel, "Boone County's 'Kansas Colony.'" The
Hoosier Genealogist, Spring 2005.
Category III - Original Research Story:
First place: T. Mark James, "Phillip's Legacy."
Second place: Connie Lenzen, "The Ghost of Thomas G. O'Connor: A Portland,
Oregon Policeman."
Third place: Janet Sjaarda Sheres, "Solving the Sjaarda Mystery."
Category IV - Want-to-be Writer/Columnist:
Fist place: Andrea Butler Ramsey, "Say Her Name."
Second place: Karin Berry, "My Great-Great Grandfather, Charles Brown."
Third place: Laurie Beth Roman, "Break Thru Your Brick Walls by Writing Your
Family History."
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