Category I: Newspaper Columns
1st Place: Michael Hait
Learning from Genealogical Failure
2nd Place: Tara Cajacob
Curator in the Community: Sylvester Gleisner's Uniform
3rd Place: James M. Beidler
Participate in census with eye to future
Category II: Published Articles
1st Place: Leslie Albrecht Huber
The Journey Takers
2nd Place: Mary Penner
Project Census
3rd Place: Jean Wilcox Hibben
Uncovering More than Artifacts
Category III: Original Research Story
1st Place: Linda Stewart
Encounters with a Family Skeleton: Virgil Baldwin
2nd Place: James B. Carr
The Search for Frank LaMunday
3rd Place: Jo Arnspiger
The Legacy and Entangled Roots of Minerva Louise Favorite Douglass
Category IV: Want-to-Be Writer/Columnist
1st Place: Courtenay Auger
The Map of Ireland
2nd Place: Priscilla Brown
The Bellhop
3rd Place: Joyce Hardmond Gabourel
Up South with Grandma Macie Russell Rice in Medford, Long Island, New York
Category V: Unpublished by Published Authors
1st Place: Betty Lou Cooke
The Michigan Grandfather I Never Knew
2nd Place: Ruth Randall
Making a Way Out of No Way
3rd Place: Julie Cahill Tarr
With One Mystery Solved, Others Surface