In October 2022, Stacy and the They Had Names project received the Jean Sampson-Scott award from the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. 

In June 2022, Stacy did a virtual presentation for the Coastal Georgia Genealogical Society titled “Reading Courthouse Records: Tips and Tricks” with examples from Liberty County records designed to show how most courthouse records are simply templates and knowing the language normally used can help in reading the old handwriting.  

In March 2022, the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly (vol. 57, number 1) published “Abram Houston: Bridging the Gap from the 1870 Census to Slavery — A Liberty County, Georgia, Case Study Illustrating the Benefits of a Community-Focused Approach to Slavery Documentation” by Stacy. 

In March 2022, Stacy did a virtual presentation for the Georgia Genealogical Society about the They Had Names project, titled “They Had Names: Stories from Liberty County, Georgia, Slavery Records.” 

In March 2022, Stacy did a virtual presentation for the Rockdale-Newton County Genealogical Society about the U.S. Southern Claims Commission process, using Liberty County as an example. 

In September 2021, Stacy did two virtual presentations for the 2021 Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society’s annual national conference. One presentation was about the value of taking a community-focused approach to documentation, using TheyHadNames.net as a case study, and the other was about the Southern Claims Commission process in Liberty County, putting it into the context of the times. 

In May 2021, Stacy did a virtual presentation on TheyHadNames.net for the Sons & Daughters of the Middle Passage annual conference. Listen to the presentation here. 

In February 2021, Stacy presented on “Finding Hidden Lives” for the Statesboro-Bulloch County library’s Black History Month commemoration. 

In January 2021, the Family Locket genealogy blog published a 2-part series Stacy wrote about evaluating Southern Claims Commission case files: Part 1 & Part 2. 

In December 2020, TheyHadNames.net’s estate inventory data was published in the peer-reviewed “Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation” of the Enslaved.org site. Read the article here. 

In November 2020, Stacy participated in a live panel discussion on the Genealogy Adventures show. See the recording here. 

In August 2019, Stacy spoke about TheyHadNames.net at the 2d annual Susie King Taylor Mami Wata Rising conference in Midway, Georgia, and received the 2019 Susie King Taylor Mami Wata Rising Award for Genealogy Research. The conference program is here.  

In June 2019, TheyHadNames.net received the Unsung Heroes “individual” award from The Genealogy Guys Podcast and Blog and Vivid-pix.com. Read more about it here.

In April 2019, Bernice Bennett from the Research at the National Archives and Beyond podcast interviewed Stacy about TheyHadNames.net.  You can listen to the podcast here. 

In August 2018, Stacy spoke about TheyHadNames.net at the inaugural Susie King Taylor Mami Wata Rising conference in Midway, Georgia. The conference program is here.