When you go to Google to search for your ancestors, how do you do it? You may think you know how to search for things on the Internet, but there are some advanced tricks and tips you can employ to take your searches even further. The following are Advanced Search...
You've finally decided to start researching your family tree. Congratulations! You are about to embark on a wonderful, exciting, sometimes frustrating, sometimes tearful, but mostly joy-filled journey back into the past to find your ancestors and get to know...
Depending on where you live in the world, or more accurately, where your ancestors lived in the world, you might find there are other sites of greater use to you, but here in eastern North Carolina, where my family has lived for about 300 years, I find these sites...
How early were your ancestors in North Carolina? If they were here prior to the War of Independence, then it might be worthwhile to check the Moseley Map for their names, or at least their surnames. The Moseley Map was created in 1733 by Edward Moseley (1682-1749),...
I had never even heard of Goodspeed's Histories until Roger Kammerer of Pitt County Family Researchers told me about them. He said they were like the Pitt County Chronicles books for the 1800s. The publications can be a great resource for finding little biographies on...
Ever wondered how to calculate what degree cousin a relative is? It's easy with a cousin chart like this one. Just figure out your relationship to your common ancestor along the top row, then find your relative's relationship to the common ancestor on the far left...
Did you know Polly is a nickname for Mary? How about Peggy being a nickname for Margaret? Or Nancy a nickname for Ann? Did you know Pamlico County didn't exist until the turn of the 20th century? Before that, the area that is now Pamlico County was classified as...
One of the number one questions Coastal Carolina Indian Center gets via e-mail is how to find Indian ancestors, or how to determine the tribe of certain ancestors who were said to be Indian. This article was written to help people get started on finding those answers....
Regional Research Databases NCGenWeb - Features links to counties across North Carolina, each offering unique information and archives materials on their specific county. Post queries, find answers, search through marriage, census, wills, court, estate records and...
The following are two excerpts of The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 3. J.R.B. Hathaway, Editor and Financial Agent [From the Internet Archive] (Original in the Court House at Hertford, N. C.) December the 5th 1679. George Durant and Ann...