Tuesday, October 26, 2021

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

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Friday, October 22, 2021

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.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Mail Order Brides of the Old West

 This article comes from ancestralfindings.com.



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