The Wentworth Award for Excellence in Genealogical Writing is awarded at each year's Spring Conference to the author of an article published in the New Hampshire Genealogical Record in the previous year that "makes an exceptional contribution to NH genealogy."  

 

The award is named in honor of William Edgar "Ed" Wentworth,  a long-time member of NHSOG. He has transcribed and published an enormous number of records, including: 

 

• Journals of Enoch Hayes Place (2-volume set), a Freewill Baptist minister in Strafford, NH, 1810-1865

• Vital Records 1790-1829 from Dover’s First Newspaper

• Historical Memoranda Concerning Persons and Places in Old Dover, vol. 2 (a follow-up volume to the 1900 volume published by John Scales, editor of the Dover Enquirer)

• Records and History of the Belknap Congregational Society of Dover, N.H.

• Records of Dover Baptist Church : The first century, 1840 to 1944

• Complete Records of Central Avenue Baptist Church, Dover, NH, 1828-1918

 

We created this award to honor his exceptional contributions to NH Genealogy. 

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2025 Award

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To Virginia Hansen for her article “George H. Spencer of Hinckley, England and Lake Village/Lakeport in Belknap County, New Hampshire,” published in the vol. 35, no. 2 (Spring 2024) issue of the New Hampshire Genealogical Record.

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