North Carolina Genealogy

During the 17th century, Dutch traders established trade posts and plantations throughout the Americas; actual colonization, with Dutch settling in the new lands was not as common as with settlements of other European nations. Many of the Dutch settlements had been abandoned or lost by the end of the century, with the exception of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, which remain Dutch territory until this day, and Suriname, which became independent in 1975.
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North America

The French established colonies across the New World in the 17th century. They were developed to export sugar and furs among other products. Explorers and settlers from France settled in what is now Canada, the Mississippi Valley and along the Gulf coast in what is now Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana founding the cities of Quebec, Montreal, Detroit, Michigan, Saint Louis, Missouri, Mobile, Alabama, Biloxi, Mississippi, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Once upon a time, when this site was at a peak a few years back, it had a sister site. That was a South Carolina Genealogy site. I’d like to go ahead and mention that site is back up and I am in the process of filling out the information available there. I’ve covered half of South Carolina’s counties and am starting to post Historical References there that are specific to South Carolina. So, you should see a link at the top of the page, or visit the new southcarolinagenealogy.org

Jamestown was founded in 1607 by the London Virginia Company. Three ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery arrived at Jamestown on May 14, and their crews of 104 men and boys began the first permanent English settlement in North America. The settlers consisted mainly of English farmers and Polish woodcutters, hired in Royal Prussia. Upon landing, secret orders from the Virginia Company were opened which named John Smith as one of the councilors. Smith had been arrested on the voyage over by Admiral Christopher Newport for mutiny and scheduled to hang, but was freed upon the opening of the orders. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I’ve finally made it through all the currently existing counties of North Carolina. All 100 should be there. As you probably know by now, all you need to do is click on the menu entry in the sidebar to the right entitled “North Carolina Counties” and the menu will expand to list links to each county page. Read the rest of this entry »

British North America

The English established colonies along the east coast of North America from Newfoundland as far south as Florida. Initially, the name “Virginia”, named after Queen Elizabeth I was applied to the entire coast, including what is now the Canadian Maritimes and Newfoundland. Early colonies included Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not sure if this is worth noting or not. I’ve just setup a second domain name pointing here. Some time back I had registered northcarolinagenealogy.info and it now directs to this site along with northcarolinagenealogy.net

Just another little update to pass along that the county list has been added to. I’ve now added information up to the letter ‘r’, so that means Read the rest of this entry »

The 1991 Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States.

The lead up to the war began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 Read the rest of this entry »

The Vietnam War was fought from 1957 to 1975 between Soviet and Chinese-supported Vietnamese nationalist and Communist forces and an array of Western and pro-Western forces, most notably the United States. The war was fought to decide whether Vietnam would be united under a Communist government, or would remain indefinitely partitioned into the separate countries of North and South Vietnam. The war ended in 1975 with a Communist victory and the unification of the country under a government controlled by the Communist Party of Vietnam. In Vietnam, the conflict is known as the American War (Vietnamese Chiến Tranh Chống Mỹ Cứu Nước, which literally means “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation.”)
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