North Carolina Genealogy

Thanks again to randomgenealogy.com he has found a place like ebay only for used genealogy books. Listing is free it says and they specialize in genealogy books and publications. Looks like a great resource.

I’ve just finished updating the counties starting with the letter “G”, so that means that Gaston, Gates, Graham, Granville, Greene, and Guilford Counties have all been updated on the second pass through the link revision. I’ve added a couple of research links on the right hand column as well. These include wikitree, which I mentioned […]

Denmark had a colonial empire from the 18th century until the 20th. Large portions of it involved the colonization of the Americas. Explorers and settlers from Denmark took possession of the Danish West Indies (present-day U.S. Virgin Islands), which Denmark later sold to the United States. Beginning in 1721, they also founded colonies in Greenland, […]

I saw this neat article at Random Genealogy. Of course, you may already be familiar with the Wikipedia, a global, publicly collaberated encyclopedia. I find it a useful source for many of the detailed historical references here and if I had a comfortable way to just sit and read for hours, I would. Anyway, along […]

I’ve gone through Forsyth and Franklin Counties now. I’ve also corrected a typo in the name of Forsyth (no e on the end.) If you link directly to the site, you might consider re-checking that you’ve got the right link. I think the only other county page that has moved is Tyrrell county (I may […]

Portugal was the leading country in the European exploration of the world in the 15th century. The Treaty of Tordesillas split the New World into Spanish and Portuguese zones in 1494.

Edgecombe County now has seen an update, so I’m up through the letter E in the county revision.

I’ve gone back over the list of counties that I had taken a second look at and I’ve added links on each to Cemetery Transcriptions. There are a few that are lean, but it’s worth a look. (That’s up through the letter ‘D’.) Also, a note on the USGS cemetery listings by county.

After the discovery of northern Alaska by Ivan Fedorov in 1732, and the Aleutian Islands, southern Alaska, and north-western shores of North America in 1741 during the Russian exploration conducted by Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov, it took fifty years until the founding of the first Russian colony in Alaska in 1784 by Grigory Shelikhov. […]

For the first in the series of featured books, I thought I’d highlight Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina, The Mountains, by William R. Trotter. It paints a bleak picture of what the Civil War years were like in this very divided area of the Confederacy. One of the biggest surprises many may have