Monday, August 21, 2017

This is the first in a series of blog posts from the North Carolina State Archives on how to decipher the handwriting in 17th and 18th century documents.  Source: ResearchBuzz

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Thursday, August 17, 2017

Best Genealogy Websites

Family Tree Magazine has published its annual list of 101 Best Websites for Genealogy.
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Historical Georgia newspapers

The Digital Library of Georgia continues to add new titles to its  Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Lists of recently and soon-to-be added titles are here.  
We found that the images sometime load slowly. The pdf version loads quicker- after you select an edition to download, look  for this and click on "view pdf".
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Donald Trump's Ancestry

The 45th President of the United States is of German and Scottish ancestry. Read about it here, at Thoughtco.com
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War of 1812 pension files

 Pension files for the War of 1812 are now available at Fold3 on the library's website. 83% of the 7.2 million pages have been added so...

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     Buncombe County (NC) has added 50,000 names to its Slave Deeds database. To read about it and find links to the database, click  here.     ...
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     Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records.  This ...
  • Vietnam Memorial Wall of Faces
     Volunteers organized by the nonprofit Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund have found photos for all of the 58000 Americans who lost their lives ...