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Excellence in Writing Competition For 2011 Winners

 

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Category V: Unpublished by Published Authors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