At the April 10 meeting at the Mennonite Heritage Museum in Steinbach, the research, scholarship and publications committee reported that John Friesen, Harry Loewen and Victor Doerksen will continue to serve on the Echo Verlag Series committee. It was reported that they planned to proceed with the Sagradovka volume, and to expand the Zwei Dokumente volume to include other documents. It was also reported that the Memrik volume is currently being translated but their it no commitment to publish it at this time. The local history committee reported that work is continuing on the West Reserve Settlement Register 1880, and that several local governments of the former West Reserve would be approached for modest contributions towards the cost of publishing this work.
The board also met on October 3 at the Mennonite Heritage Centre in Winnipeg.