North Carolina Genealogical Society
Celebrating 50 years of supporting North Carolina family history research
The recording of “Gossip, Gore, and Glory: How North Carolina Newspapers Can Bring Your Family History to Life”, presented live by Julia A. Anderson on 8 Jan 2025, is now available in the Webinar Library. (Access the main Webinars page under the menu item “Education and Events”. Then look for the button “Explore the Webinar … Read more . . .
Registration for the free-play weekend recorded webinar, “Courting North Carolina: The Courts of the Tarheel State – Part 1” with Judy G. Russell, is now open. You do not have to be a member to register.See the Upcoming Events section on the Home page, or go directly to the Event Page.
The NCGS Journal Vol. 50 No. 2 (Apr-May-Jun 2024) is now available online to members.From the top menu, Publications > NCGS Journal, then click on the “Read the Journal” button. There are also four new Supplements for this issue – “General Store – C. B. Mallett Papers. Fayetteville, Cumberland Co, 1845-54”, “Dry Goods Store – … Read more . . .
NCGS needs Volunteers to help out at the conference.We need help in the following areas:
Craig Scott’s “The North Carolina Indigenous People”, presented live on 4 Sep 2024, is now available to members in the Webinar Library.You must be logged in as a member to access the recording. On the top menu, go to Education & Events > Webinars, and on that page scroll down to “Explore the Webinar Library”. … Read more . . .
The NCGS Journal Vol. 50 No. 1 (Jan-Feb-Mar 2024) is now available online to members.From the top menu, Publications > NCGS Journal, then click on the “Read the Journal” button. There are also five new Supplements for this issue – “General Store – John Dickey, Roan [Rowan] Co, 1786-1796”, “Shoemaker – Thomas Hallyburton, Rutherford Co, … Read more . . .
Both the Ancestral Names and Places indexes have been updated through Vol. 49 No. 4 (2023). The Names Index now has an additional 6423 entries (total 369,300 entries), and the Places Index now has an additional 175 entries (total 48,493 entries). On the top menu bar, under Publications, click on “NCGS Journal”, then on that … Read more . . .
The NCGS Journal Vol. 49 No. 4 (Oct-Nov-Dec 2023) is now available online to members.From the top menu, Publications > NCGS Journal, then click on the “Read the Journal” button. There are also two new Supplements for this issue – “General Store – William Britton (Daybook & Account Book), Bertie Co, 1817-1818” and “Watts Tomlin … Read more . . .
As many visitors to our website last year have noticed, the NCGS website had numerous outages over the last several months of 2023, often being down for multiple days at a time. We, like everyone else, consider this to be unacceptable. Although we worked diligently with the hosting provider to do everything we could to … Read more . . .
Registration is now open for the NCGS 2024 Virtual Conference, which will be held on March 15-16, 2024. Access the full event page in the Upcoming Events section of the home page for complete details and ticket purchase.