2007 Contest Winners
(for articles and columns
published/written in 2006)
Category I - Newspaper Columns
1st Place: Stefani Evans, "Seized Land Becomes Memorial" (Las Vegas) West
Valley News, 4 August 2006
2nd Place: Julie Miller, "Firing Up Next Generation of Genealogists"
Broomfield (Colorado) Enterprise, 15 Dec 2006
3rd Place: James Beidler, "Searching for a Miller? You're in Good Company"
Altoona (Pennsylvania) Mirror, 9 July 2006
Category II -- Published Articles
1st Place: Leslie Albrecht Huber, "Finding Eliza Again" (Ancestry Magazine,
March/April 2006)
2nd Place: Colleen Fitzpatrick and Andrew Yeiser, "Scientific Methods"
(Family Tree Magazine, April 2006)
3rd Place: Diane Rapaport, "The Case of the Rhode Island Runaway (New
England Ancestors, Spring 2006)
Category III - Original Research Story
1st Place: Katharyn L. Waldron, "In Search for Johann Valentin Burghardt:
Papers, Patterns, and Persistence"
2nd Place: Marie Navarro, "The Search for My Loving Grandmother Kelley"
3rd Place: J. H. Fonkert, "The Search for the Origins of James C. Fawkner"
Category IV - Want-to-Be Writers
1st Place: Karen Roekard, "How Far Should a Genealogist Go?"
2nd Place: Debra Hoffman, "One of Morgan's Men"
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