UGA Fellow Award Winners

The UGA Fellow Award is given in recognition of those living individuals whose distinguished contributions and on-going commitment to the field of genealogy are of national or international scope. This may be evidenced by any combination of publications, teaching and speaking, or leadership of major genealogical organizations over a significant period of time.

  • 2023: Jill N. Crandell, AG
  • 2022: D. Joshua Taylor
  • 2021: Angela Packer McGhie
  • 2020: Roger P. Minert
  • 2019: Karen Mauer Jones
  • 2018: Paul Milner
  • 2017: Barbara Vines Little
  • 2016: Thomas Kent Edlund
  • 2015: Pamela Boyer Sayre and Richard Sayre
  • 2014: Craig R. Scott
  • 2013: Linda Turner
  • 2012: Claire Bettag
  • 2011: Paula Stuart Warren
  • 2009: Thomas Jones
  • 2007: Paul Allen
  • 2006: Barbara Dodson Walker
  • 2006: Gerald Haslam
  • 2005: George Ryskamp
  • 2004: Mark Lowe
  • 2003: Dean Hunter
  • 2002: Tony Burroughs
  • 2002: Kory L. Meyerink
  • 2001: Karen Clifford
  • 2000: L. Reynolds Cahoon
  • 2000: Raymond S. Wright III
  • 1999: John Philip Colletta
  • 1999: Jayare Roberts
  • 1998: Sharon Carmack
  • 1997: Birdie Monk Holsclaw
  • 1997: Wendy Elliott
  • 1996: David E. Rencher
  • 1995: Loretto Dennis Szucs
  • 1995: Curt Witcher
  • 1993: Sandra Hargraves Luebking
  • 1992: Gordon Remington
  • 1990: Elizabeth Shown Mills
  • 1990: Marsha Hoffman Rising
  • 1989: Johni Cerny
  • 1989: Anthony J. Camp
  • 1987: Arlene Eakle
  • 1987: Roger D. Joslyn
  • 1986: Lyman D. Platt
  • 1986: Nick J. Vine Hall
  • 1985: Neil D. Thompson
  • 1984: George D. Durrant
  • 1984: J. Carlyle Parker
  • 1983: Laureen Jaussi
  • 1983: Willard Heiss
  • 1983: Gloria Chaston
  • 1982: Kip Sperry
  • 1982: Robert E. Ward
  • 1982: Cecil Humphrey Smith
  • 1982: David Ensign Gardner
  • 1981: P. William Filby
  • 1981: Robert Charles Anderson
  • 1981: Val D. Greenwood
  • 1981: Milton Rubincam
  • 1981: Clifford Neal Smith
  • 1980: Henry E. Christensen
  • 1980: David H. Pratt
  • 1979: Jimmy B. Parker
  • 1979: Effinghamm P. Humphrey, Jr.
  • 1979: Noel Carter Briggs
  • 1978: John Vallentine
  • 1978: Jerry D. Wells