North Carolina Genealogical Society
Celebrating 50 years of supporting North Carolina family history research
— Presented by Craig R. Scott, CG, FUGA — Researching the indigenous people of North Carolina is challenging. Most of the records available to researchers are in the materials created by government agencies. Records include allotment records, annuity rolls, census records, correspondence, and school records.
— Presented by Emily Coffman Richardson, EdD — Choosing to join a lineage society is one way to honor your ancestor. Which one, if any, should you join? What are the requirements? Samples of several society applications will be examined.
— Presented by J. Mark Lowe, FUGA — Fraternal and Masonic organizations are groups of people bound together for social, religious, philosophical or philanthropic purposes. Learn about the records available and how to determine if an ancestor was a member of an organization.
— Presented by Diane L. Richard, MEng, MBA — The concept of tolls is not new. Depending on where your Tar Heel ancestor lived and, especially if a body of water needed to be crossed or a new turnpike was recently put into operation, tolls/fees were paid. How many of you have cars with E-Zpass/NC QuickPass or similar toll transponders? This is the modern way of collecting tolls from those traveling by car. Eighteenth century records clearly document requests for and approval of tolls for roads, bridges, ferries, and canals.
— Presented by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG®, CGLSM — Understanding the legal lingo in the records is a critical part of understanding the records themselves — and we figure out what we need to know using resources like Black’s Law Dictionary.
— Presented by Jennifer Crowder Daugherty — This talk covers the types of resources found in the North Carolina Collection and the East Carolina Manuscripts Collection including family histories, county record abstracts and transcriptions, maps, diaries, letters, personal papers, and more.
— Presented by Diane L. Richard, MEng, MBA — Providing relief to those in need is not a modern concept. Throughout history, the records reflect the provision for assistance or relief to those in need. Whether one received food, a dispensation to not pay taxes, support money for a bastard child, was apprenticed, hospitalized in a sanitarium, or facing other struggles, they may have been the recipient of some form of relief for the poor.
— Presented by Craig R. Scott, CG®, FUGA — This webinar places the research in context from the period of the French and Indian War up to the Revolutionary War. It also discusses strategies for successful research from literature review through free and subscription websites relating to this time period.
— Presented by Angela Walton-Raji — Many African-American families have a family story of an ancestor who was said to be of Native American ancestry. In most cases, there is little knowledge of how this can be studied. This lecture looks at the types of records in which many “blended families” can be examined.
— Presented by Diane L. Richard, MEng, MBA — Most talks on post offices focus on them as employers — for those seeking to document family members who worked for the post office. Post offices aren’t just about employees or even the mail. Post offices used to define communities and people used their location to define where they lived.