The Fellows observe, with sorrow, the death of Winston De Ville, FASG, on 24 March 2025.

Winston was the senior Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, having been elected a Fellow in 1970. A native of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, Winston De Ville was educated in his native state, earning degrees in music, history, and French. Over many decades as a practicing genealogist and prolific historian, he was known to all as the dean of Louisiana genealogy and a master raconteur of its rich and unique history and culture.