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International Society of Family

History Writers and Editors

 

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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