Its almost that time again: on April 1st the 1950 census will be released. The National Archives says that new technology will make it more accessible than ever. Read about it here.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Monday, November 8, 2021
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.
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
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.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
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