DigitalNC adds new newspapers

 DigtalNC (North Carolina) has added editions of the Star of Zion, one of the oldest African American papers in North Carolina. Coverage includes the years 1884 through 1926. For more information and links to the collection, click here.  DigitalNC is adding new titles regularly and provides an update each week. For the lastest, click here.

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.

Genealogy Society meeting

 The Genealogy Society of Hernando County will meet Oct 15th at the LDS Family History Center, 21042 Yontz Road in Brooksville,  at 10 a.m. Social distancing and masks for the unvaccinated will be required.

For more information, contact Georgene Jurgensen at 816-591-0251. 

Using Google Books to search the Google News Archives

 Read how to do it here on Nancy's Family History Blog. The article includes a link to Google books and   another to a list other features of the site helpful to genealogists. 

Franklin County, MO.

 If you or your descendants are from Franklin County Missouri, or thereabouts, this collection of photographs  from The Missourian will be of interest. An article with background information can be found here.  Source: ResearchBuzz