Awards Presented by the Society
The Robert M. Sherman Award
For Exemplifying High Qualities of Scholarship and Genealogy
- Cherry Bamberg
- Wayne Tillinghast
- 2013 – Jane Fletcher Fiske
- 2019 – William B. Saxbe, Jr.
- 2021 – Linda Mathew
- 2022 – Robert Grandchamp
- 2023 – Diane Boumenot
The Doane-Farnham Award
For Lifetime Achievement in Rhode Island Genealogy
- 1982 – Mildred Mosher Chamberlain
- 1982 – Kenneth Roebuck
- 1983 – Jane Fletcher Fiske
- 1983 – Robert Sheldon Trim
- 1984 – Gladys Carr Bolhouse
- 1988 – Judith Hurst
- 1990 – Jean Carr Stutz
- 1990 – Elizabeth J. Johnson
- 1990 – James Wheaton IV
- 1991 – Alden G. Beaman
- 1993 – Bruce C. MacGunnigle
- 1993 – Althea McAleer
- 1993 – Beatrix Hoffius
- 1993 – Deby Jecoy Nunes
- 2019 – Bruce MacGunnigle
- 2020 – John Sterling
Certificate of Appreciation
- 1982 – Alden Clinton Saunders
- 1990 – Ruth Wilder Sherman
- 2012 – Otis C. Wyatt
- 2016 – Larry Wilson
The Paul Campbell Award
For Exemplary Service to Rhode Island Genealogy by a Public Employee
- 2016 – Paul Campbell
- 2017 – Kenneth Carlson
- 2018 -- None
- 2019 – Nellie Gorbea
- 2020 – Laurie Arruda
- 2022 – Thomas Frawley
- 2023 – Kate Wells
Rhode Island Genealogical Society Lifetime Membership Award
- Alden Clinton Saunders
- Cherry Bamberg
- Robert Allen Greene
- Elmer Palmer
- John E. Sterling
- Otis Wyatt
- Thomas Clarke
- James W. Lennox
- Josiah L. Mason
- Nancy Ann Norman
- 2016 – Paul Campbell
- 2016 – Sally Hilton
- 2016 – Mary Ostiguy
- 2022 – Thomas & Geri Clarke
- 2023 – Larry Wilson
Recognition
- 1992 – John Deming Bacon, Longevity
- 1992 – Denice Ealine Mitchell, Longevity
- 1992 – Avis Simmons, Longevity
- 1993 – Mildred M. Sherman
- 2023 – Cherry Bamberg, Writing contest
