Wednesday, July 29, 2020

North Carolina Colonial Court Records, and "Every Name Counts" project.

The No. Carolina State archives is in the process of making accesible these records, some of which cover the years prior to NC's becoming a  state in 1789. Read about it here......and here is an article about "Every Name Counts", a crowdsourcing project to digitize 26 million documents related to victims of Nazi persecution collected by the Allies as Europe was liberated at the end of WW II. The link to the project is in the first paragraph. Learn how you can participate. source: ResearchBuzz
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Slave surnames

This article  from the theroot.com  explains why determining the surname of an enslaved person can be difficult. 

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