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Another genealogist took over the publication of the Phipps Family Journal after I edited it, then it ceased publication. I don't think it's been published since the 1980s.
I believe at least the copies of the journal that I edited have been microfilmed by the Mormons. The microfilm can be rented at your local LDS Family History Center. (In my case, it can also be rented through my local public library.)
I got out of touch with John C. Mullins, who edited the Phipps book. From things I've seen on the Internet, I'm not sure that he's still living. The book was a large red hardcover, then an updated large green paperback. They should be in any of the larger genealogical libraries, such as the LDS library in Salt Lake City or the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
The original edition of the Phipps was published in 1982. It was a massive undertaking, especially considering the computer technology of the time. He was assisted by F. Duval Craven, who, I was told, headed the largest road construction company in North Carolina. Mr. Craven has since passed away. They both were great friends and spent vast amounts of time trying to track down the VA and NC Phipps families back before DNA and when PCs had not been around very long and when the World Wide Web was barely a reality.
I see that a Dickenson Co., VA genealogy resources web page lists John C. Mullins' print shop (Mullins Printing), with the notation "closed?" I also see from Google Books that Kennedy's 1997 book on melungeons (which discusses Samuel Phipps and Betty Reeves) cites Mullins' Phipps book.
Mullins' book contained no illustrations that I recall. (My copies are at my parents' house in another county.) The Phipps Family Journal contained a few photos, maps, etc. now and then, but not very many.
All this is ancient history now. It's hard to believe that those items were published nearly 30 years ago.
I have a great memory of driving John Mullins' car, as he and I left the Greater Phipps Reunion one year at Alamance Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina and went halfway across the state to the old Phipps farm, where my great-great-great-great-grandfather Samuel Phipps is buried in a blackberry patch on top of a mountain in what used to be Ashe County, North Carolina.
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