 That same year Lomax began a systematic program of donating his own work and additional archival material for the Fondren Library's Woodson Research Center at Rice University and the Country Music Foundatkion Library and Media Center.In 2019, nearly 20 of his personal photographs and archival pictures were used in the Ken Burns Country Music documentary TV whos, dvd and book.John Lomax III is the son of John Lomax Jr. and Margaret Marable Lomax and grandson of John Lomax; both John Lomax Jr. and Sr. were pioneering folklorists famous for documenting, recording, and performing folk music traditions in the first half of the 20th century.