At the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Genealogists on October 26, 2024, the Society voted to present the Donald Lines Jacobus Award to The Vick Genealogy: The Study of a Southern American Family in White and Black, 2 vols.  (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Press for the Joseph Vick Family of America, 2023), by John Beatty, CG.

The author, John Beatty, CG, is Senior Librarian at the Genealogy Center of the Allen County (Indiana) Public Library, a nationally-known institution for genealogical research.