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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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 ...
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Volunteers organized by the nonprofit Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund have found photos for all of the 58000 Americans who lost their lives ...