Member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Illinois), Fellow of the American Genealogical Society (FASG), Fellow of the National Genealogical Society (FNGS), recipient of the Literary Award of Merit by the Connecticut Society of Genealogists (1992) for her research on John Howland of the Mayflower and his descendants, recipient of the Lowell Volkel Medal of Honor by the Illinois State Genealogical Society (1996).