The Award for Excellence in Publishing

Previous Winners

R = Record,  F = Family,  G = Genealogy,  P = Primary Source,  S = Secondary Source, B = Book

• 2025 R  Margaret Richards and Judy Watts for Minutes of Burke County, NC Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions & Miscellaneous Records 1841-1849 & 1865-1879
• 2025 F  Maxine Maloney for John Willoughby and His Contemporaries, Descendants and Allied Families
• 2025 G  Phyllis Bridges and Linda Willard for The Book of Ancestry: Forgotten Ones of Oakwood Cemetery
• 2024 R  Jason Duncan for 1798 Wilkes County, NC, Tax List and the Stories It Reveals
• 2024 F  Roy A. Archbell, Jr. for Beaufort County, North Carolina Ancestors
• 2024 G  Dr. Elizabeth Giddens for Oconaluftee: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley
• 2023 R  John A. McGeachy for Warren County, NC, Pleas & Quarter Sessions Court Minutes, May Term, 1848-November Term, 1851
• 2023 F  John D. Beatty, CG for The Vick Genealogy: The Study of a Southern American Family in White and Black (2 volumes), for the Joseph Vick Family Association of America
• 2023 G  Rev. W. Becket Soule for A Documentary History of the Diocese of Charlotte, 1972-2022
• 2022 R  John Stemmons for North Carolina Petitioners, Etc. 1780 [1755-1784]
• 2022 F  David Leatherwood for Calamity and Liberation: Barcos and Related Barkers (1861-1865)
• 2022 G  Judge J. Matthew Martin for Cherokee Supreme Court: 1823-1835
• 2021 R  Judy Swink Watts and Betsy Dodd Pittman for Burke County, North Carolina Road Records (1787-1897)
• 2021 F  Barbara Voorhees for To the Stars: The Glenns of Gaston County, North Carolina
• 2021 G Junaluska Heritage Association and Susan Keefe, Editors, for Junaluska Speaks: An oral history of one of Appalachia’s oldest black communities
• 2020 R  Morgan Jackson for The Families of Northern Moore County – Abstract of Miscellaneous and Rare Records, Volume II
• 2020 F  David Leatherwood for Lives Along the Water: The Barcock/Barco Family of Carolina (1666-1782)
• 2020 G Emily Skinner for Until We Sleep Our Last Sleep
• 2019 R  Sharon Rea Gable for Camden County, North Carolina, Deed Books G-H, 1795-1799
• 2019 F  Roy A. Archbell, Jr for Archbell Genealogy: The Descendants of John Archbell of Beaufort County, North Carolina
• 2019 G  Chotsey Winborne for Berea Notebook: Tracing the Early History of Berea, North Carolina, Through Property Deeds
• 2018 R  John A. McGeachy for Wilkes County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; October Term, 1798 – February Term, 1805 and May Term, 1805 – October Term, 1810
• 2018 F
  1. Sharon Castle with the Castle Genealogy Project Work Group for George and Ruth Castle: Our Family’s Journey 1613-2016
  2. B. Darrell Jackson, CG^® for Ruffin Family History: Lineal Descendants of William Ruffin (1618-1674) of Isle of Wight County, Virginia to John Henry Ruffin (1861-1951) of Pettis County, Missouri 
• 2018 G  John Anderson Brayton for Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies, Vol. 3
• 2017 R  Linda Gray Mayo, editor, for Early Hyde County, North Carolina Marriage Records: 1735-1899
• 2017 F  Nancy Sherrill Wilson and Mary Katherine Sherrill Lowder for Ancestors and Descendants of John Vernon Guyer and Georgia Winifred Pate Guyer: Their North Carolina Heritage, Volumes I and II.
• 2016 R  Robert C. Carpenter for Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War
• 2016 G  Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. for Hertford County North Carolina’s Free People of Color and Their Descendants.
• 2015 S  Dr. A. B. Pruitt for Index to People & Places in New Hanover Co., NC Deed Books A-AA (1726-1845)
• 2015 F   Jean Wood Paschal for One Branch of the Wood Family Tree in Northeastern North Carolina
• 2014 P   John A. McGeachy for New Hanover County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 3 vols: 1814-1825
• 2014 S   C. Rudolph Knight (posthumously) and Lawrence W. S. Auld for African American Heritage Guide: Tarboro, Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County
• 2014 F   Barbara McGeachy for Wiley Thomas Snyder, Nora Bessie McNeil: Their Stories
• 2013 P   E. B. Munson, editor, for Confederate Incognito: The Civil War Reports of “Long Grabs,” a.k.a. Murdoch John McSween, 26th and 35th North Carolina Infantry
• 2013 S   Edgecombe County Genealogical Society for Edgecombe County, North Carolina Cemeteries – Greenwood Cemetery, Volume III, edited by Janice Dew
• 2012 P   John Anderson Brayton for Annotated Transcriptions of Colonial Currituck County, North Carolina Wills
• 2012 S
  1.   Jackson County Genealogical Society, Inc. for Macon County Cemeteries, Volume II (West of the Little Tennessee River)
  2.   John Anderson Brayton for Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies, Vol. 1: “The First Two Hundred”
• 2012 F   Margo Lee Williams for Miles Lassiter (circa 1777-1850): An Early African-American Quaker from Lassiter Mill, Randolph County, North Carolina
• 2011 P   Laura Edwards for Dead or Disabled: The North Carolina Confederate Pensions 1885 Series
• 2011 S  Marie Benge Craig Roth for History of Davie County Schools
• 2011 F   Dr. John Quinly Williams Jr. for Our Roots: African Origins and the Reclaimed Legacy of Three American Families
• 2010 P   Henderson County Genealogical and Historical Society for Minutes of the Henderson County, NC Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1839-1848, Volume 1
• 2010 F
  1.   Gates County Historical Society for Just Down the Road … in Our Own Words
  2.   Jonathan A. Underwood for The Underwood Family of Stanly County, North Carolina: A Biography and Genealogy
• 2008 P  Herman W. Ferguson for Abstracts of Deed Books 24-28 and Books 1-3, Second Series, Mecklenburg County, NC 1831–1850
• 2008 S   William B. Kittrell for Pitt County Cemetery Book, Volumes 1 and 2
• 2007 P   Ellen Poteet for General Order Book, 1862-1863, 11th North Carolina Troops
• 2007 F   Ruth Shipp Yarbrough for Remember Who You Are
• 2006 P   Bradley R. Foley for The Greensboro Patriot Index: 1847 to 1856
• 2006 F   Rebecca L. Dozier for Descendants of John Jenkins, Colonial Governor of North Carolina, 1672–1850
• 2005 P  William L. Byrd III and John H. Smith for their series North Carolina Slaves and Free Persons of Color
• 2005 S   Susan Wazmunski Todd for Heroes of the Sixties: Lest We Forget
• 2004 P   Martin County Genealogical Society for Martin County, NC Church Records from Bear Grass, Conoho, Skewarkey, Smithwick Creek Primitive Baptist Churches
• 2004 F   Rev. Nelson Weller for A Family History/Genealogy of the Schauss/Shouse Family in North Carolina 1755 – 1900
• 2003 P   Kathy Gunter Sullivan for Tryon County Documents 1769-1779: A North Carolina County
• 2003 F   Jeffrey Lewis Williams for Lore and Legacy: A History for the Cheek, Sale and Sparks Families (2nd ed.)
• 2002 P   Kathleen Summers for Abstract: Henderson County, NC Estate Records 1838-1900
• 2002 F   Dorothy N. Perkins for Thomas Norfleet of 1666 Vols. I & II
• 2001 P   James Vann Comer for Central North Carolina Vital Statistics
• 2001 F
  1.   Agness Wiggins Gunter for Descendants of Captain John Wiggins of Martin County, North Carolina
  2.   Oren Alston Palmer Jr. for The Descendants of Colonel Robert Palmer
• 2000 P  John A. Brayton for By a Line of Marked Trees
• 2000 P  Irene and Russell Black for their seven-volume set of Iredell County, North Carolina Cemeteries
• 2000 F   George W. Willcox for A History of the House in the Horseshoe: Her People and Her Deep River Neighbors
• 1999 P   Rick Frizzell and Jackson County Genealogical Society for Docket Book, Jackson County Superior Court, 1866-1896
• 1999 P  Agnes Moseley Wells and Iris Moseley Harvey for their abstracts of Surry County records
• 1999 P
  1.  Timothy W. Rackley for his abstracts of Nash County records
  2.  Herman W. Ferguson for his abstracts of Mecklenburg County records
• 1999 F   Henry and Willard Wright for The Life and Legend of Henry Cannon Smith
• 1998 P   James W. Kluttz for Abstracts of Deed Books 15-19 of Rowan County, North Carolina, 1797-1807
• 1998 F  Plummer Alston Jones Jr. for The Jones Family of Blounts Creek, Beaufort County, North Carolina with Allied Families
• 1997 B
  1.  Dr. Patrick M. Valentine for The Episcopalians of Wilson County: A History of St. Timothy’s and St. Mark’s Churches in Wilson, North Carolina, 1856-1995
  2.   Juanita E. Caldwell for her Cleveland and Rutherford counties court minutes
• 1996 B  Excellence in Publishing: Old New Hanover County Genealogical Society
• 1995 B   Excellence in Publishing: Weynette P. Haun for North Carolina Revolutionary War Army Accounts Part I-V
• 1995 F   Excellence in Publishing: Merrill Hill Mosher for John Freeman of Norfolk County, Virginia, His Descendants in North Carolina and Virginia & Other Colonial North Carolina Freeman Families
• 1994 B  Excellence in Publishing: Dr. Stephen E. Bradley Jr. for Early Records of North Carolina: From the Secretary of State Papers Vols. I-VIII
• 1994 F   Excellence in Publishing: Boyt Henderson Cathey for Cathey Family History & Genealogy, Vol. I: 1700-1900
• 1993 F   Excellence in Publishing: Anne Williams McAllister for Heinrich Weidner 1717-1792 and Catherine Mull Weidner 1733-1804, through Four Generations
• 1991 B   Book Awards:
  1.   Margaret M. Hofmann for her land grants of North Carolina series
  2.  Paul Heinegg for Free African Americans of North Carolina
  3.   Mildred J. Miller and Pat M. Crooks for Time Is, Time Was: Gravestone Art, Burial Customs and History, Iredell County, North Carolina
• 1991 F   Book Award: Thurlo V. Byers for Descendants of David & Margaret Byers
• 1990 B   Award for a Book published in the last 12 months:
  1.   Anne McAllister and Kathy Sullivan for Civil Action Papers of Lincoln County 1771-1806
  2.   Henry deLeon Southerland Jr. and Jerry Elijah Brown for The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation and Alabama
• 1990 F   Award for a Book Published in the last 12 months: Carrie M. Jennings for Messick Ancestral File
• 1989 B   Award for a Book published in the last 12 months: Kay Duncan and Anita Barfield for The People of Columbus, Volume 1
• 1989 F   Award for a Book Published in the last 12 months:
  1.   Jo White Linn for A Holmes Family
  2.   Judith Garner Hinton for Letters Back Home
• 1988 B   Award for Excellence in Publishing: Dr. A. B. Pruitt for Glasgow Land Fraud Papers 1783-1800 and North Carolina Revolutionary War Bounty Lands in Tennessee
• 1987 B   Award for Excellence in Publishing: Thornton W. Mitchell for North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index, 1665-1900