North Carolina Genealogical Society
Celebrating 50 years of supporting North Carolina family history research
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org Happy New Year! Bet you haven’t heard that yet. Another year means four more issues of the journal and many opportunities for you to join in the fun and share a family image, story, neat resource or anything else related to your Tar Heel ancestors. Planned 2020 … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org After record-breaking heat here in the heart of the Carolinas in late September and early October, hopefully the cool weather has settled in and nature is putting on its fall showcase of colors. Along with the change of seasons comes a time of family events and celebrations. … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org It sure has been a hot summer here in the Carolinas! Hopefully when not vacationing, attending family reunions or other celebratory events, or just trying to stay cool, you’ve been able to advance your research. NCGS 2019 Fall Conference At the NCGS Fall Conference in November I … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org NCGS Journal Supplements Coming soon, if not already, to your mailbox (or inbox if you have a digital membership): the April-May-June 2019 edition of the NCGS Journal, which is subtitled “Medicine, Health, and Epidemics in North Carolina.” As with the January-February-March 2019 edition, there was more material … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org NCGS Journal Supplements We hope you enjoyed and found value in the January-February-March 2019 edition of the NCGS Journal, which was subtitled “Celebrating Late 19th and Early 20th Century Women.” There was more material created for this edition of the Journal than could be accommodated in the … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org Planned Special Edition (July-August-September 2019) on Mariners and Related Topics The 2019 summer edition of the NCGS Journal will focus on mariners, shipping, and related topics. You cannot talk about North Carolina nor research eastern North Carolina without eventually bumping into someone involved in the shipping trade … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org Planned Special NCGS Journal Edition (April-May-June 2019) on Epidemics and Health Care The 2019 spring edition of the NCGS Journal will focus on records and information regarding epidemics and related diseases. We’ll examine the well-known influenza epidemic and tuberculosis crisis (resulting in the building of sanitariums/sanitoriums). We’ll … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org Planned Special NCGS Journal Edition (February 2019) on Women’s Suffrage On 18 August 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified[1]. This guaranteed women the right to vote. Although North Carolina did not ratify the amendment before it became law, there was a vibrant suffragist community … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org Planned Special NCGS Journal Edition (May 2019) on early 19th Century and earlier Mariners/Seamen/Ports I have been pulling together some material related to attempting to trace someone’s ancestor who was purportedly a mariner sometime circa 1810-1830. Although we have yet to track him in the process, I … Read more . . .
By Diane L. Richard, NCGS Journal Editor, journaleditor@ncgenealogy.org Acquiring Digitized Materials (Something You Can Do!) Increasingly, we don’t have to travel to archives to acquire material from them. Just a few years ago, my options for accessing unindexed original/raw material were the hope that an archive had digitized what I sought and placed it online; … Read more . . .