Silver Tray Award: Karen Mauer Jones
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 in January of each year. This year’s Silver Tray Award recipient
has published articles and books, edited one of genealogy’s premier
peer-reviewed journals, and has worked actively to develop quality genealogical
writing skills in others. The Silver Tray Award is given this year to Karen
Mauer Jones.
Some of you have already experienced Karen in her “Writing and
Documenting for Peer Review” course. More of you will have your chance to learn
from her starting next month in SLIG Academy. Multiple sessions of this course
consistently fill quickly.
Karen Mauer Jones resides in Ithaca, New York, an editor, author,
lecturer, and professional genealogist specializing in upstate New York. She
served for seven years as editor of The New York Genealogical and
Biographical Record and was named a fellow of the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society in 2012. Besides the writing course already mentioned, she
also coordinates the course, “Researching New York: Resources and Strategies,”
and teaches in the IGHR course, “Writing and Publishing for Genealogists.” The
owner of Frontier Press, a genealogical and historical bookstore, she is the
author of articles in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and
the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and of multiple
volumes of Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland early newspaper abstracts.
Karen has served on the boards of the Association of Professional
Genealogists and of the Federation of Genealogical Societies. In 2019, she was
named a Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association.
Few persons have impacted and enhanced genealogical writing and
publication in so many ways, as has Karen Mauer Jones.
