Thank you to Joyner researcher Aimee McCall for providing this. Aimee emailed me last month after finding some useful Joyner posts on this site. Fortunately, she had something that was shared with her, that she wanted to pass along for other Joyner researchers. She...
Back in 2019, after driving myself crazy with the mystery for years, I speculatively wondered whether or not Nancy Morris (wife of Emanual Edwards and mother of William Henry Edwards) may have been one of the four daughters of Thomas Morris of Beaufort County (son...
Good news for researchers with roots in Beaufort County, NC. The Beaufort County Genealogical Society's House Cemetery Records are now available online. The records were compiled by Mr. Leslie F. House who was the first President of BCGS. They were gathered during...
This is pretty interesting! It's a descriptive list of men raised for the militia in Dobbs County per a bill passed February 1781. It not only lists the men, but it provides their size (height), their hair color (complexion), and their profession. The original can...
The following was found in the General Assembly Session Records at NCDCR online. Here is a direct link to the Bill and accompanying petition....
NCDCR now has General Assembly Session Records online. I have been going back through the records for 1810, the year that Laban Morris had his name legally changed from Henby, along with his sons John and William. Now, I'm more convinced than ever that the name was...
The whole purpose of this video is to explain who Laban Morris's parents probably are and to correct the record of who they DEFINITELY AREN'T. They definitely aren't Thomas Morris and Rachel Platt of Burbage, Wiltshire, England. That is incorrect information that...
FamilySearch Full Text Search is a gamechanger for those of us researching our family trees. Finally, we have another set of tireless eyes to read through millions of pages of documents in old handwriting to help find our ancestors' names! In this video, I talk...
This is another item I found using the Full Text Search at FamilySearch. I normally wouldn't be searching deeds for these men, but my ancestor John Holmes and a person of interest, Elisha Morris, both show up as witnesses to the deed. I'll put abstracted data below...
I found this deed using FamilySearch's new AI Full-Text Search tool. I was searching for "Elisha Morris" and I set the place to North Carolina and I stumbled on this. (Actually, I had tried a variety of counties because I've found the AI sometimes gets confused...