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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.

1974

(Triple Award)
Beth Bland Engel, The Middleton Family (1972)


Daniel Reid Long, Jr., John Lewis, "The Lost Pioneer," His Ancestors and Descendants 16701970 (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)

1977

Enid Eleanor Adams, Ancestors and Descendants of Jeremiah Adams, 17941883 (1974)

1978

Maryly B. Penrose, CG, Baumann/Bowman Family of the Mohawk, Susquehanna and Niagara Rivers (1977)

1980

Dorothy Garr Helmer, Lipscomb, 300 Years in America, 16791979 (1979)

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)

1982

Lee W. Vance, Tracing Your Philippine Ancestors (1980)

1984

H. L. Peter Rounds, CG, The John Round Family of Swansea and Rehoboth, Massachusetts (1983)

1985

Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, Huling Genealogy: Descendants of James and Margaret Huling, of Newport, Rhode Island, and Lewes, Delaware (1984)

1986

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)

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)

1988

Grace L. Tracey and John P. Dern, The Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 17211743 (1987)

1989

Walter Burges Smith II, CG, The Edward Clark Genealogy: 16761988 (1988)

1991

Doris F. Poinsett, Valentin Pfost/Post, 17401800, of Hardy County, (West) Virginia and Some of His Descendants (1989)

1993

Dean Smith, CG, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell (1993)

1994

Paul Heinegg, Free African-Americans of North Carolina and Virginia (1992)

1995

Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, Höffelbauer Genealogy, 15851993 (1995)

1998

Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., German Coast Families: European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana (1997)

1999

Helen S. Ullmann, CG, Descendants of Peter Mills of Windsor, Connecticut, Formerly Named Pieter Wouterse vander Meulen (1998)

2000

David Watson Kruger, Jonathan Watson of Dover, New Hampshire (1998)

2001

Peter Haring Judd, The Hatch and Brood of Time: Five Phelps Families in the Atlantic World, 17201880 (1999)

2002

Jane Thompson-Stahr, The Burling Books: Ancestors and Descendants of Edward and Grace Burling, Quakers [16202000] (1999)

2003

Abbott Lowell Cummings, Descendants of John Comins (ca. 16681751) and His Wife, Mary, of Woburn and Oxford, Massachusetts, and Windham County, Connecticut (2001)

2004

Ronald A. Hill, The Tumultuous Achym/Fulford Relationship: With Abstracts of Chancery Court Proceedings (2003)

2005

Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: Première Partie, 1636 à 1714 and [English] Supplement (19992000)

2006

Richard H. Benson, The Read Family of Salem, Massachusetts (2005)

2007

Alvy Ray Smith, Elder Bethuel Riggs (17571835) of Morris County, New Jersey, and His Family Through Five Generations (2006)

2008

Wayne G. Tillinghast, The Tillinghasts in America: The First Four Generations (2006)

2009

Eric G. Grundset, Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War, A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies (2008)

2011

Willis H. White, CG, The Tillotson Family, Long Island Cordwood, and the Decline of the East Coast Sail (2008)

2012

Scott C. Steward and Christopher C. Child, The Descendants of Judge John Lowell of Newburyport, Massachusetts (2011)