The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has added the 1949-1961 editions of the Jones County Journal to its digital newspaper collection. Source: ResearchBuzz
Friday, April 30, 2021
Friday, April 23, 2021
KKK records
Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records. This article reports on Ku Klux Klan membership ledgers from mid -1920's Denver. The article contains a link to the scanned records. source: 9NEWS(Denver) via ResearchBuzz
Monday, April 12, 2021
Enslaved.org
4 universities have collaborated to produce Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, a database containing millions of records cataloging the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants. The URL is here.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Hard-to-find ancestors
Here an article with some tips on how to find an elusive ancestor courtesy of outofmytreegenealogy.com.
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Ted Talk: How We're Building the World's Largest Family Tree
From Ted.com in 2018.
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Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the mail moved slowly and some citizens had to travel a good distance to check for mail...
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Newspapers. com, which is available to library card holders from the library's website, has added 450 more papers from 15 states and 3...
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Over the course of U.S. history, county boundaries and names changed, and large counties were broken up into smaller ones. In 1883, for exam...