Volunteers Needed for Webinars

The North Carolina Genealogical Society needs volunteers for NCGS webinars coming up in 2012 and 2013. Volunteers will be trained to help facilitate these online events. The only requirement is that you need to have a good internet connection and headphones with a microphone. Because these events are virtual, you do not need to be … Read more . . .

NCGS Awards Guidelines

The Awards Committee offers the following guidelines for publications, websites, and individuals worthy of consideration for nomination for the annual NCGS Awards: Comparing one publication with another in its category to consider which is more worthy of an award, NCGS Award judges take into account what is good and what needs improvement in each publication … Read more . . .

Save The Date

30 June 2012The North Carolina Genealogical Society will present its annual Speakers Forum on Saturday, 30 June 2012, at the Wake County Commons Center, 4011 Carya Drive, Raleigh, NC.  Watch the NCGS News newsletter and the NCGS website for more information as it becomes available.

NCGS News Is Going Electronic

The January 2012 issue of the NCGS News is the last issue that will be printed and mailed. Beginning with the March 2012 issue, the NCGS News will be conveniently delivered to your e-mail inbox. NCGS News will be published bi-monthly instead of quarterly beginning in 2012. That means you will receive six issues per year instead … Read more . . .

NCGS News, Vol. 35, No. 2 Published

The spring issue of the NCGS News is now available as a download. Paper copies of the newsletter will arrive in members’ mailboxes during the beginning of April. The summer issue of NCGS News will be published in early July 2011 (and will be available here in early June). News items for inclusion in the … Read more . . .

Loose Estates Project Update

NCGS is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with FamilySearch on the Loose Estates Records Project. The Loose Estates Records Project is using volunteer efforts to create a decedent surname index of all extant loose estates found within the North Carolina Archives county record series in addition to those found within the colonial … Read more . . .

Available Now – Updated NCGS Journal on CD

NCGS is offering an updated and revised North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (1975–2010) on CD in its online store. For those who own the current North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (1975–2000) on CD, a special supplementary disk, North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (2001-2010), is also available for a limited time.

NCGS News, Vol. 35, No. 1 Published

The NCGS News Vol. 35, No. 1 Winter 2011 is now available online. Members of NCGS should receive their print copies soon. The next issue will be published in early April 2011. News items for inclusion in that issue can be sent to Phyllis Matthews Ziller, NCGS News Editor, at NC************@*********gy.org by 15 February 2011.

NCGS wants to hear from you

Your genealogy needs are important to NCGS. We have been busy creating new formats for our website, newsletter, and journal. The workshop offerings have become increasingly more versatile. We added the ability for members to submit articles and links of interest to North Carolina researchers to be published on the website. Now, we are asking … Read more . . .

2011 Mosher Award Recipient

The Donald Mosher Award was presented at the 2010 National Genealogical Society Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Nathan W. Murphy, MA, AG, for his paper “The Devon Seafaring Origins of William Byrd’s Mother’s Family: Grace (Stegge) Byrd of London, England, Thomas Segge of Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia, and Captain Abraham Reed of Charles City County, Virginia; Including Additional Details about His Father John Byrd’s Career as a London Goldsmith.”

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