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Donald
Lines Jacobus Award and Recipients
The
Donald Lines Jacobus Award, established in 1972 to encourage sound scholarship
in genealogical writing, is presented to a model genealogical work published
within the previous five years. Nominations for the Jacobus Award are made by
Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists who edit journals that run book
reviews. Recipients of the Jacobus Award are shown below.
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1974 |
(Triple
Award)
Beth Bland Engel, The Middleton Family (1972)
Daniel Reid Long, Jr., John Lewis,
"The Lost Pioneer," His Ancestors and Descendants 1670—1970 (1970)
Miranda Goodrie Willoughby, A Norwegian Heritage (1970) and The
Search for a Family: How a Search Was Conducted for Ancestors in the Early
Northwest (1972) |
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1977 |
Enid Eleanor
Adams, Ancestors and Descendants of Jeremiah Adams, 1794—1883
(1974) |
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1978 |
Maryly B.
Penrose, CG, Baumann/Bowman Family of the Mohawk, Susquehanna and Niagara
Rivers (1977) |
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1980 |
Dorothy Garr
Helmer, Lipscomb, 300 Years in America, 1679—1979
(1979) |
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1981 |
Rita Hineman
Townsend, Hutchins-Hutchens, Descendants of Strangeman Hutchins, Born
1707, of the James River in Virginia and Surry (Yadkin) County, North
Carolina
(1979) |
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1982 |
Lee W. Vance, Tracing Your Philippine Ancestors
(1980) |
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1984 |
H. L. Peter
Rounds, CG, The John Round Family of Swansea and Rehoboth,
Massachusetts (1983) |
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1985
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Esther
Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, Huling Genealogy: Descendants of James and
Margaret Huling, of Newport, Rhode Island, and Lewes, Delaware (1984) |
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1986
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Henry Z
Jones, Jr., The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German
Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, 2 volumes (1985) |
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1987 |
Christine
Rose, CG, Descendants of Robert Rose of Wethersfield and Branford,
Connecticut (1983) and Ancestors and Descendants of the Brothers
Rev. Robert Rose and Rev. Charles Rose of Colonial Virginia and Wester
Alves Morayshire, Scotland (1985) |
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1988 |
Grace L.
Tracey and John P. Dern, The Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early
Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721—1743
(1987) |
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1989 |
Walter Burges
Smith II, CG, The Edward Clark Genealogy: 1676—1988
(1988) |
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1991 |
Doris F.
Poinsett, Valentin Pfost/Post, 1740—1800,
of Hardy County, (West) Virginia and Some of His Descendants (1989) |
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1993 |
Dean Smith,
CG, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell (1993) |
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1994 |
Paul Heinegg, Free African-Americans of North Carolina and Virginia
(1992) |
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1995 |
Lewis Bunker
Rohrbach, Höffelbauer Genealogy, 1585—1993
(1995) |
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1998 |
Albert J.
Robichaux, Jr., German Coast Families: European Origins and Settlement
in Colonial Louisiana (1997) |
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1999 |
Helen S.
Ullmann, CG, Descendants of Peter Mills of Windsor, Connecticut,
Formerly Named Pieter Wouterse vander Meulen (1998) |
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2000 |
David Watson
Kruger, Jonathan Watson of Dover, New Hampshire (1998) |
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2001 |
Peter Haring
Judd, The Hatch and Brood of Time: Five Phelps Families in the Atlantic
World, 1720—1880 (1999) |
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2002 |
Jane
Thompson-Stahr, The Burling Books: Ancestors and Descendants of Edward
and Grace Burling, Quakers [1620—2000] (1999) |
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2003 |
Abbott Lowell
Cummings, Descendants of John Comins (ca. 1668—1751)
and His Wife, Mary, of Woburn and Oxford, Massachusetts, and Windham
County, Connecticut (2001) |
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2004 |
Ronald A.
Hill, The Tumultuous Achym/Fulford Relationship: With Abstracts of
Chancery Court Proceedings (2003) |
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2005 |
Stephen A.
White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: Première
Partie, 1636 à 1714 and [English] Supplement (1999—2000) |
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2006 |
Richard H.
Benson, The Read Family of Salem, Massachusetts (2005) |
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2007 |
Alvy Ray
Smith, Elder Bethuel Riggs (1757—1835)
of Morris County, New Jersey, and His Family Through Five Generations
(2006) |
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2008 |
Wayne G.
Tillinghast, The Tillinghasts in America: The First Four Generations
(2006) |
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2009 |
Eric G.
Grundset, Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian
Patriots in the Revolutionary War, A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies
(2008) |
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2011 |
Willis H.
White, CG, The Tillotson Family, Long Island Cordwood, and the Decline
of the East Coast Sail (2008) |
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2012 |
Scott C.
Steward and Christopher C. Child, The Descendants of Judge John Lowell
of Newburyport, Massachusetts (2011) |
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