North Carolina Genealogy

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, which is now a self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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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 I find it a useful source for many of the detailed historical references here and if I had a comfortable way to just sit and read for hours, I would.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 those lines, The wikitree seeks to create an online collaberated genealogy of everyone…. from their site…
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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 have had one l originally.)

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.
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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.
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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. The Russian-American Company was formed in 1799 for the purpose of hunting sea otters for their fur.
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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 Read the rest of this entry »

The New Burn Sun Journal gives more detail on the excavation of 2 caskets in Kinston. The caskets are to be sent to the Smithsonian for study and will be filmed by the History channel. One of the people involved is a scientist that identified the remains onboard the H.L. Hunley

He is also involved in an excavation of the Jamestown settlement. Interesting read.

Another interesting tip from the Charlotte Observer. Saturday, August 6th from 10AM through 3 PM, re-enactors from the NC 6th Regiment will hold a Revolutionary War re-enactment. (Unclear if a specific battle, or just general camp-life, what a Revolutionary engagement would look like.)

Also, Vernon Herron, an African-American genealogy lecturer will present two topics on African-American involvement in the Civil War in Mecklenburg County.
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