The ASG awards Grants for Continuing Genealogical Research Projects. These grants are intended to assist with those projects sitting unfinished (or unstarted) on every genealogist’s “back burner” for lack of financial aid to help cover researching and writing time, costs of copies, fees, travel, and other usual expenses associated with genealogical research and publication.

Each grant is for $2,500. Projects are not limited regarding subject, length, or format, but the value of the work to other researchers and institutions will be an important consideration. Examples of possible projects include, but are not limited to, compilation of single or extended family genealogies, transcriptions or translations of original documents, bibliographies, indexes, studies of ethnic groups, geographic locations, migration patterns, legal history, etc., using genealogical resources and methods.

Publication is not required, but acknowledgement of the support from the American Society of Genealogists in any distribution of the project results is requisite.

This grant program began in 2022. Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists are not eligible for these grants.

Applications

A detailed grant description document is available here (updated for 2024 grant cycle).

Deadline (2024 cycle): March 1, 2024.

Further information and application form are available from Alicia Crane Williams, FASG, 4 White Trellis, Plymouth, MA 02360; acwcrane@aol.com.

Award Recipients

2024:

Pamela Vittorio of Brooklyn, New York City: Navigating the Records of the New York Canals (1817 to 1918): A Guide for Genealogical Research.”

Kelly Richardson of Dickinson, North Dakota: documenting the Gualala River Cemetery in northern California.

Carolyne Ngara of Nairobi, Kenya:  comprehensive genealogical research on the Luo people of Kenya.

Shahidah Ahmad of Watertown, Massachusetts (second award): African American genealogy in Holly Hill and Cottageville, South Carolina.

2023:

Shahidah Ahmad of Watertown, Massachusetts: African American genealogy in Holly Hill and Cottageville, South Carolina.

Richard de Boer of Harlingen, The Netherlands: genealogical source review in six Balkans nations.

Stephanie Mills Trice of Silver Spring, Maryland: African American families at Zion Baptist Church, Macon, North Carolina.

Jamie Wasilchenko of Newaygo, Michigan: genealogy of Horodylovychi, Galacia, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

2022:

William E. Cole of Gold River, California: Cole genealogies (book and article) and study of nonconformists, 1590s.

Holly MacCammon of Philmont, New York: New York Surrogate Court Guradianship Records

Al Sharp of Kittitas, Washington: Henrico Project.

Ian Watson of Burtenbach, Germany: Ipswich Deeds Project.