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