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Located in Buncombe County. From Asheville, follow Merrimon Ave. North towards Weaverville, then turn Right on Beaverdam Rd. (just before Ingles at traffic light.) The cemetery is on the right just past a deep curve (road curves to the left and back around to the right circle a bank that is home to a Church.) (415 Beaverdam Rd. is the street address.)
This post in the Official Google Base blog comes from a Googler that got interested in uploading his family genealogy into Google Base. (Google Base is a web-based database approach from Google that many people use for a variety of purposes… businesses can upload lists of items for sale, bloggers can list articles on their site, people can upload recipes, etc…)
The Asheville Citizen times brings this writeup which covers several topics of interest. First, attention is paid to the migration patterns of the early settlers of Western North Carolina and the importance of land records in tracing some of these pioneers. The Liles/Lyles family is singled out….
I’ve been wanting to give this a try for some time. I haven’t seen any genealogy sites before that have tried combining data on locations with mapping, so I thought the best first place to start might be cemetery data. Unfortunately, it’s a tedious process to enter at this point (name (county) description longitude/latitude). So far, I’ve entered 2 in my home county and will add others as I get a chance. If there’s anyone that has suggestions for a more graceful/less labor intensive way to pull data into a map, that would be nice. I’m trying to include transcription links where available. One of the hopes…
Transcription Available here (February 11, 2000). In the Reems Creek Valley of Buncombe County, it can be found by following Reems Creek Rd. out from the Weaverville area and turning right on Pleasant Grove Union Church Rd. Stone Church at the top of the hill on the right.
Some family names include: Altman, Banks, Blevins, Bradley, Buckner, Carson, Carter, Cole, Courtney, Crouch, Donkel, Eller, Fox, Gillis, Green, Gragg, Hamilton, Henderson, Hensley, Herron, Hill, Hunsucker, Justice, Kiser, Lunsford, Melton, Metz, Morris, Mundy, Owensby, Overby, Pankratz, Parker, Penland, Rhudy, Roberts, Sadelson, Sams, Scott, Sheppard, Swann, Wallen, Walton, Ward.
This is a “first post” test of the hopeful pairing of cemetery information (and in the future transcriptions?) with a Google Map so you can get a bird’s eye view of the location.
Brank Cemetery is located in the Reems Creek Section of Buncombe County, (near Weaverville). This cemetery is just off the road to the right (as you go away from Weaverville on Reems Creek Rd.). (Off of Reems Creek Rd., just across from Pink Fox Cove Rd.)
I just took a short look at myheritage.com which seems to offer a few services that might be interesting for the genealogist. For one, they have Genealogy software and you can create family pages on the site, which is not really a new concept. However, they do offer facial recognition of faces in pictures. I’m a bit skeptical at how well this works and so I looked at their samples. Now, the samples essentially try and identify “which celebrity a photo looks most like”…. in some cases using real celebrities.
I know, not North Carolina related directly – of course I’d bet some of the ancestors of North Carolinians are recorded in it!! I just saw the news that the Domesday Book has been digitized and now is available for free browsing online. It is at the UK’s National Archives their news announcement is here and the link to the Domesday Book is here. For those that are wondering….
The first half of last week we took a brief trip to Chattanooga, TN. We stayed about a mile or so from the Chickamauga National Military Park and got to do a bit of looking there. My main interest in it was that several of my ancestors were in the 60th NC Infantry which was involved in the Battle of Chickamauga. Anyway, you might look for some updates here related to that (as well as what I pulled together before we left.) I hope to include some pictures as well. The 60th NC Infantry was made up mostly of men from Buncombe County, so I suspect there are others that would be interested in the pictures. Of course, I’ve got quite a bit of other catching up to do before I get those updates posted here. It may be a few days depending on how work goes.
We live in the mountains of Western North Carolina and have had somewhat of an eventful week. I’ve lived here for all but about 6 months of my life, right on the edge of the woods. The area is changing of course, not long before my time you would have seen cleared fields for many of the mountains and hills and not as much wildlife, but with the woods growing and replacing what used to be pasture and farms, (and less hunting), the wildlife has flourished…. I’ve always remembered us having rabbits and squirrels. The last few years though we’ve seen the occasional bobcat, heard the coyotes move in. The wild turkeys have become more and more prevelant as well. In fact this spring is the first year that I recall being almost guaranteed to see a wild turkey within shouting distance of the house about once a week.