North Carolina Slave Deeds added

 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.   source: ResearchBuzz

Ancestry's Tips for Reading Old Handwriting

 This article  might help you to decipher those hard-to-read old documents, and this one from familyhistorydaily.com provides translations for abbreviations you may encounter.

Mail Order Brides of the Old West

 This article comes from ancestralfindings.com.