Excellence in Genealogy Research Awards

February 25: Regular Mail Postmark Application Deadline
Applications may also be submitted in-person or via email before 5:00 p.m. EST on March 1, 2009.
Award winners will be announced at the National Archives Genealogy Fair in April 2009

Entries should include an original, unpublished work between 1,000 and 3,000 words that demonstrates the use of National Archives holdings to conduct genealogical research. The awards are $1,000 for first place, $500 for second place. Open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in an accredited institution of higher learning in the United States who have completed at least one semester and have not advanced to candidacy in a Ph.D. program. Winning articles may be published in Prologue, the quarterly magazine of the National Archives, and/or on the National Archives web site.

For information on how to apply, read the Press Release.