North Carolina Genealogy

I’ve just finished putting information in for all counties alphabetically up to and including Franklin County, NC. There are not loads of details in there this go around. My plan is to work entirely through once and then go back and flesh things out. Essentially I’m migrating information over from the old layout. To look at an individual county page, look at the sidebar on the right. Click “North Carolina Counties” here you should see the list break out in the menu to the right. Read the rest of this entry »

The Korean War (Korean: 한국전쟁/韓國戰爭), from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. It was also a Cold War proxy war between the United States and its United Nations allies and the Communist powers of the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union (also a UN member nation). The principal combatants were North and South Korea. Principal allies of South Korea included the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, although many other nations sent troops under the aegis of the United Nations. Read the rest of this entry »

Of course, these days folks are as interested in this for quarter collecting as anything else. But it can be a handy reference. This list has the order and dates to which the states either ratified the Constitution, or were admitted to the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.
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I’ve got a series of great articles coming up on the Colonization of the Americas by the European powers which will make great historical reference material. Admittedly some of them are reports on failed attempts to start colonies in the New World, but some may prove invaluable references. Read the rest of this entry »

World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict that began on 7 July 1937 in Asia, and on 1 September 1939 in Europe. It lasted until 1945, and involved the majority of the world’s countries and every inhabited continent. Virtually all countries that participated in World War I were involved in World War II. It was the most extensive, expensive and bloodiest armed conflict in the history of the world.
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I’ve always liked maps and sometimes with Genealogical research it’s hard to find maps fo the period that you’re researching. One of the links I had on the old site as a reference for research was a site that had historical and genealogical maps (genealogical maps?). Anyway, they do sell map reproductions and they are Goldbug and from the front page of their site… Read the rest of this entry »

World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. The war was fought by the Allies on one side and the Central Powers on the other. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers or involved so many in the field of battle. By its end, the war was the second-bloodiest conflict of all time (after the Taiping Civil War). Read the rest of this entry »

The Spanish-American War took place in 1898, and resulted in the United States of America gaining control over the former colonies of Spain in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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