At the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Genealogists on October 28, 2023, the Society voted to give its Donald Lines Jacobus Award to Descendants of Thomas Snell (1634–1725) of Fillongley, Warwickshire, England and Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Baltimore, Maryland: Otter Bay Books, 2019), by Stephen F. Snell.

A mid-seventeenth-century immigrant to Bridgwater, Plymouth Colony, is traced in the classic five-generation format in all lines, covering about two thousand descendants. An extraordinary feature of this work is an appendix presenting images and transcriptions of eighty-four documents handed down in the Snell family, including thirty original deeds from 1677 through the eighteenth century, many of them (including the earliest) never recorded in their appropriate jurisdictions, and therefore not available elsewhere.