Larry W. Cates has been a local and family history librarian at the Heritage Research Center of the High Point (N.C.) Public Library since 2007. He is past editor of the Journal of the Randolph County Genealogical Society (1996-2011) and of the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (2011-2015) and is currently the editor of the Guilford Genealogist. Larry has a number of awards to his credit in the genealogy field. He received the Claude Hunter Moore Award from the N.C. Society of Historians in 2005, the Award for Excellence in Periodical Publication from the North Carolina Genealogical Society in 2008, and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to North Carolina Genealogy, also from NCGS, in 2013. In 2017, the National Genealogical Society presented him with the prestigious Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship. His experience as a genealogist goes back to 1989. Many of Larry's past presentations on family history can be viewed at the Heritage Research Center's YouTube channel—Heritage Deep Dive- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYcGCd4FJ9RCtw5aBBSswLA