North Carolina Genealogy

June 6th… it’s a day that to many is no different from any other. In many ways it’s a day that should be more sacred than so many on our calendar. I can’t help but get emotional thinking about D-Day June 6, 1944. The beginning of the Allied invasion of Europe and the liberation of France as well as the turn of the tide in the course of history. Hitler’s Germany had steamrolled Europe, the “Atlantic Wall” was seemingly impenetrable and England and been suffering the repeated bombings from the Luftwaffe…. The sheer scope and scale of that day in Normandy is unimaginable and as I watched specials and retellings of the day on the History channel here I can’t help but get emotional at the amazing feat that those men achieved and the horrible “what if it had failed”… unimaginable as well.

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It’s been too long since I’ve posted here, but things have been quite hectic. I’ve had a couple projects for a business that provides self storage in Greenville South Carolina and then another, sister facility that also provides self storage near Greenville. Work outside of those has stayed pretty busy and we just got back from a Surfside Beach vacation (South Carolina). So, I’m looking back seeing my plans for one post a week and realizing that is probably too ambitious. (Especially since I had the same goal for each of my sites….) So, instead of trying to make that goal, I expect to be looking at one good post a month (give or take) and spending more time on working on improving the existing county pages (which I see as the main centerpiece of the site.) The day after we got back though there was a fascinating afternoon of programming on the NC channel of the UNCtv network. It was all about the different dialects in North Carolina….

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Here are the most popular baby names from 1880:

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Here are the most popular baby names from the year 1900:

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Here are the most popular baby names from 1920:

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Here is the listing of most popular baby names from 1940:

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Here is the list of the most popular baby names from 1960:

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Here’s the listing of popular baby names from 1980:

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I ran across fyneart.com this evening and it reminded me of one of the things I’ve wanted to have done SOME time. Have a painting done. Maybe this is a throwback to watching historically based tv shows where there were houses full of paintings of family members, but I’ve always wanted to see about having paintings done of my family. Yes, we have some pictures, but if you compare a photo and a portrait painting side by side, there’s something more…. enchanting about a painted portrait.

Anyway, fyneart.com is apparently located in the UK, so I wondered what options there were here in the US….

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Here’s a listing of the most popular baby names from the year 2000:

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