UGA Awards

Annual Silver Tray Award Winners

Past Annual Silver Tray Award Winners

The Silver Tray Award is given for scholarly contributions to the field of genealogy and family history. Since 1988, it has traditionally been given for publication efforts. The award is presented at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy banquet held January of each year.

2023: Debbie Parker Wayne
2022: Karen Mauer Jones
2021: Elizabeth Shown Mills
2020: George R. and Peggy M. Ryskamp
2019: John Philip Colletta
2018: Val Greenwood
2017: American Society of Genealogists (ASG)
2016: Dick Eastman
2015: Judy G. Russell
2014: Matthew Wright
2013: Kimberly Powell
2012: David Dilts, FamilySearch Wiki
2010: Thomas Jones
2009: Craig R Scott
2008: Loretto Szucs
2007: Ray Wright
2006: Blaine Bake
2005: Thomas Jay Kemp
2004: David H. Pratt
2003: George Schweitzer
2002: Millennia Corporation
2001: Heritage Quest
2000: Federation of Family History Societies
1999: Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1998: Kory L. Meyerink
1997: KBYU-TV
1996: Ancestry, Incorporated
1995: Genealogical Publishing Company
1993: Gordon Remington
1992: Delphia Triptow
1991: William Dollarhide
1990: Burt Rawlins
1989: Marion Wolfert
1989: Gary Zimmerman
1988: Ruth Froelke
1988: Trudy Schenke
1987: Family History Missionaries and Volunteers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1986: Graham T. Smallwood
1985: National Genealogical Society
1984: Kip Sperry
1983: T. Harold Jacobson
1982: David Ensign Gardner
1981: George H. Fudge
1980: Frank Smith
1979: Norman Edgar Wright
1978: E. Kay Kirkham
1977: Kenn Stryker Rodda
1976: George B. Everton Sr.
1975: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
1974: The Genealogical Society of Utah
1973: Milton Rubincam

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