North Carolina Genealogy

When I first started researching, there were a few names that were among the “farthest back” in their line that we KNEW were correct. At that time, my great-aunts and great-uncles were living and could remember their grandparents names. One of those ancestors, was my 2nd great-grandfather, James M. Parker. I have quite a bit of details on his family with Margaret Matilda Waggoner (they were married March 6, 1854). James M. was in the Civil War and was held as a prisoner of war in the notorious Camp Douglas near Chicago. The point of this entry though, is not to detail that, but to upload a picture or two.

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I know this isn’t directly related to North Carolina Genealogy, however odds are if you’re researching ancestors from NC, you’re looking at ancestors in other parts of the country as well. I ran across this site a bit earlier today while I was in the “Google Sitemaps” group looking at postings. Old Maps of New England, New York and Pennsylvania. They sell reproductions of historical city maps. It looks fascinating. I haven’t looked at specific cities or townships, but find it quite tempting….

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I found this news story of a woman on a bus trip in North Carolina that convinced the driver to visit Waynesboro, NC where her great-grandfather had helped build a Quaker Meeting House. (This from the News Argus of Goldsboro.) It really can add another dimension to research to take a name out of paper and notes and connect it to a real physical place and structure. I’m sure they got plenty of pictures – what do you think?

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I’ve added a new photos section which will go along with the “Families I’m researching” category. I hope to start uploading some pictures of some of the families I’ve worked on before too long and that category will be the place to find them. I’ll try to tag/label things fairly well, so that it can be searchable. I will need to check and make sure I’ve got the MSN search across the site, because there are no pages currently for this site in google. (In and out, then in again and now back out….)

I don’t know maybe it’s nostalgia that keeps me liking the concept of webrings. Relevant sites linking to each other…. but it’s been a headache recently. I’ve been suspended/in and out of several rings for “failure to have the code” on the main page. Which, of course, is not true, I HAVE had the code on the main page AND a link to a webrings page with the code as well. It turns out that the link was getting seen first many times by the automated checker and so sites that allowed a PASS_L were fine with this *(PASS_L means you have a link to a “webrings” page…) But for sites that required a PASS (No link…) this was apparently causing a problem.

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The Goldsboro-based News Argus brings us the story of a NC teenager that one first place in the Tar Heel Junior Historian Contest at the NC Museum of History. Sydney Moye Briley, also won the state aware for Genealogy and the museum will have books on display for a year. Congratulations. I remember when I started researching family history (in High School), many times, I was the youngest researcher in the Genealogical society by about 30-40 years….

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It’s sad to see private cemeteries relocated for development. But that’s exactly the story from the link above. On the outer banks of North Carolina in a place called Martin’s Point…..

In recent weeks, orange survey sticks have appeared, surrounding the fence and disappearing into the twisted underbrush behind it.
Willis Gallop and his wife, Mary, have been buried there, the only private cemetery in the community, since 1848. Rightfully so, since it’s near where the reputed pirate built his plantation house and tied his schooner.

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I’ve moved the old site archives and gathered everything under the northcarolinagenealogy.net domain. The old posts that might have been found from a search engine are linked to on the bar to the right in the area titled “Old site archives”. Unfortunately the search function for the new site does not include the old files. I hope you will take some time to browse the new site layout though. As you can see I’ve had it “live” for a while now, but there are still some areas that are lacking.

I’ve finally gone through and done some clean up of the links and the old site archives. Previously, the old archives were at an averyjparker.com/ncgen address…. the archives are still available, see the links to the lower right hand side of the page, or visit http://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/ncgen for the old site entrance. I’ve also removed the link to the forum (defunct for a while), hopefully I’ll be able to find a solution at some point that requires less policing for junk….

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Stagville was once North Carolina’s largest plantation. This news story talks about work that’s been done at this State Historic Site to construct family trees of all the slaves that were held there. The plantation covered parts of current Wake, Orange, Durham and Granville Counties. The family tree information has been pulled from old tax records and old plantation business records that were kept to keep track of the sale and owning of the slaves.

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