Awards

  • North Carolina Genealogical Society’s 1992 Award of Excellence in Publishing

  • American Society of Genealogists’ 1994 Donald Lines Jacobus Award for the best work of genealogical scholarship published between 1991 and 1994

  • Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)’s 2018 History Award Medal

  • Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS)' 2019 Paul Edward Sluby, Sr./Jean Sampson-Scott Award

Publications

  • Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina. From the Colonial Period to about 1810. Three volumes. Clearfield, six editions from 1991-2021. 

    • Findings are the outgrowth of 35 years of research in well over 1,000 manuscript volumes, including colonial and early national period tax records, colonial parish registers, 1790-1810 census records, wills, deeds, Free Negro Registers, marriage bonds, Revolutionary War pension files, newspapers, and more. Furnishes copious documentation and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

  • Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware, From the Colonial Period to 1810. Clearfield, two editions: 2000, 2021. 

  • Heinegg, Paul. List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware (Followed by the French and Indian Wars and Colonial Militias). Clearfield, 2021.

  • Entire body of research findings available on Heinegg’s website Free African Americans.

Journal Articles

Heinegg, Paul and Ayo Heinegg Magwood. "Tracing an African American family lineage from the 17th to the 20th century: The Kee Family of Northampton County, NC." Forthcoming at The Genealogist.

  • Heinegg, Paul. The Ancestry of Benjamin Banneker: His Mother Tells Her Own Story. Maryland Genealogical Society Journal. 32 (3, 2021): 405-417.

  • Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Virginia and North Carolina. The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, volume XX (August 1994): 177-194.

Heinegg, Paul and Henry B. Hoff. “Freedom in the Archives: Free African Americans in Colonial America.” Common-Place, 5:1 (October 2004).

Media

  • On-air expert interview in African American Lives 2. Episode 4. Directed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. PBS, 2008.

    • Profiled in Mitchell, Owens. “Surprises in the family tree.” New York Times, January 8, 2004.

  • Profiled in Roach, Ronald. "The New Genealogy." Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 25, no. 1 (2008): 16-18.