North Carolina Genealogy

According to the Charlotte Observer, the Rosedale Plantation will host a family reunion August 14th, 2005, from 1-4PM. The family invited are descendants of the Caldwell, Davidson, Frew, and Hutchison families and any descendants of slaves and laborers who worked on the farm. The event is open to the public and free of charge, for more details see Historic Rosedale

I feel obligated (although I’m not sure why) to explain that I’ve created a new category entitled “news”. Now, in dealing with genealogy the term news might be ambiguous (it might refer to discovering something that happened 200 years ago.) I expect I may use some latitude in that interpretation of news for the articles in this topic.

The Darién scheme was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve moved on through the alphabet and finished with the revision of counties starting with the letter D, so everything up to and including Durham county has been revised.

The Swedish colonization of the Americas consisted of a 17th century settlement on the Delaware River in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, and possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th century.
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I’m not quite sure how I feel about this, but I just read over at Randomgenealogy.com that two caskets from Kinston, NC have been exhumed and sent to the Smithsonian for study. They apparently date from between 1848-1863. Apparently they’re trying to determine who is buried in them. The family histories are detailed for the individuals, but there were questions as to where someone was buried. Read the rest of this entry »

I’d like to introduce a new post category. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I’ve spent a good deal of time going through North Carolina counties up through the letter ‘C’. So, everything through Currituck should be seeing a good amount of detail. Make sure to scroll down on those pages. There should be lots of good reference information and links there. I don’t know if I can keep up the pace on the second draft of these counties. I suspect I may slow down a bit on revising those pages.

Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas began with the arrival in America of Christopher Columbus in 1492. He had been searching for a new route to the Asian Indies and was convinced he had found it. Columbus was made governor of the new territories and made several more journeys across the Atlantic Ocean. He profited from the labour of native slaves, whom he forced to mine gold; he also attempted to sell some slaves to Spain. While generally regarded as an excellent navigator, he was a poor administrator and was stripped of the governorship in 1500.
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Well – today I’ve gone on a more detailed update of the counties starting with the letter ‘A’. Which means there should be more detailed county pages for Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Ashe and Avery counties.