Articles & News

Historical notes, events, and genealogy columns imported from the original site — ready to expand with fresh research content.

• A Southern Genealogy Research Network (NC + SC, then TN & VA) featured
  July 13, 2026
  Why NC genealogy is built as a multi-state network—and how to use sister hubs for migration research.
• What to Do Next by North Carolina Region (Mountain, Piedmont, Coastal) featured
  July 13, 2026
  A practical next-action checklist that changes with region: mountain church books, Piedmont mill directories, coastal occupation paper—and the jurisdiction rule that never changes.
• How to Run a Free-First NC Research Week (Without Getting Lost) featured
  July 13, 2026
  A seven-day plan using only free and low-cost tools: jurisdiction, census FAN clubs, land/probate, churches, newspapers, Archives, and a written next action.
• Carolina Border Research Log: NC–SC Sister-Site Workflow featured
  July 9, 2026
  A practical log template for families who straddle the North/South Carolina line.
• Cape Fear Corridor: Bladen, Cumberland, New Hanover & Daughters featured
  July 3, 2026
  Highland Scots, port commerce, and Sandhills parents for southeastern NC families.
• Albemarle Sound Parent Web: Chowan to the Northeast featured
  July 1, 2026
  Colonial precincts, waterway kinship, and why northeastern brick walls need multi-county logs.
• Great Wagon Road Piedmont Corridor: Cross-County Research Map featured
  June 29, 2026
  How Scots-Irish and German settlement chains link Rowan, Guilford, Mecklenburg, and daughter counties.
• DNA for North Carolina Roots: Clusters, Endogamy, and Documents featured
  June 13, 2026
  How to use autosomal DNA on NC lines without drowning in matches—especially in endogamous Piedmont and mountain communities.
• North Carolina Migration Tips: Into, Across, and Out of the State featured
  June 11, 2026
  Wagon Road, ports, mountain gaps, mill corridors—and how jurisdiction mistakes create false “vanishing” ancestors.
• What's New on North Carolina Genealogy (2026 Rebuild) featured
  June 9, 2026
  100 county hubs, research guides, free checklists, queries, and how to navigate the modern site.
• North Carolina Genealogy Relaunch featured
  June 7, 2026
  The Tar Heel research hub moves to a modern platform while preserving county guides, articles, and forum history.
• Using DigitalNC With This Site’s County Hubs
  July 27, 2026
  How free digitized newspapers, yearbooks, and scrapbooks plug holes in courthouse series.
• County Spotlight: New Hanover & Wilmington Port Research
  July 25, 2026
  Directories, churches, and newspapers for Lower Cape Fear families.
• Mill Village Genealogy in the North Carolina Piedmont
  July 23, 2026
  Company housing, mill churches, and directories often outlast employment files.
• County Spotlight: Chowan & the Albemarle Gateway
  July 21, 2026
  Edenton-area colonial sources unlock northeastern families later found across the Sound.
• Newspapers Before Death Certificates: NC Obituary Strategy
  July 19, 2026
  How to use weeklies and regionals when statewide death registration is too late.
• County Spotlight: Rowan as a Colonial Parent Powerhouse
  July 17, 2026
  Salisbury courts and parent strategies unlock dozens of western Piedmont brick walls.
• The Parent-County Mistake: Why Your Ancestor “Isn’t” in That County
  July 15, 2026
  Late formations and large parents create false absences in modern county indexes.
• A Weekly Research Rhythm for North Carolina Genealogy
  July 13, 2026
  One question, one jurisdiction, one record class—how to make steady progress without database hopping.
• Textile Piedmont Mill Chain: Cross-County Factory Families
  July 7, 2026
  How mill villages move households across Gaston, Alamance, Cabarrus, Guilford, and Rockingham.
• Mountain Parent Chain: Buncombe and the Western Counties
  July 5, 2026
  Why western NC brick walls usually start with the wrong modern county—and how to walk parents west.
• Free NC Genealogy Checklists & Digital Tools
  June 27, 2026
  Where to get the starter checklist, cheatsheet bundle, burned-county pack, and African American pack—and how to use them.
• Guilford & Forsyth: Piedmont Research Paths
  June 25, 2026
  Greensboro/High Point industry and Moravian Wachovia—two hubs that unlock a huge share of Piedmont brick walls.
• Mecklenburg County Genealogy: Charlotte & Border Strategies
  June 23, 2026
  Urban directories, Presbyterian backcountry roots, and why York County SC searches complete many Charlotte-area trees.
• Wake County Genealogy: Capital-Area Starting Points
  June 21, 2026
  How to research Raleigh and Wake without abandoning county deeds—or drowning only in State Archives catalogs.
• African American Research Paths in North Carolina
  June 19, 2026
  A practical order of sources from freedom documents to plantation context—and why jurisdiction still matters.
• Using the County Record Matrix on This Site
  June 17, 2026
  How to read coverage badges and year ranges before you waste a search day.
• How to Research a Burned or Thin Courthouse in North Carolina
  June 15, 2026
  When the courthouse is thin or gone: neighbors, churches, newspapers, and state substitutes.
• Forum Cesspool Cleaned Out
  January 11, 2013
• Guilford County Genealogical Society Meeting Nov. 19th
  November 13, 2011
• What do I do?
  November 13, 2011
• Upcoming Genealogy and History Events in NC
  October 15, 2011
• Where is the 4th of July?
  July 4, 2011
• Lunch and Learn Series - one in Asheville, another in New Bern
  February 1, 2011
• New Alabama Genealogy Sister Site
  July 27, 2010
• Exciting News.... We're Growing!
  July 16, 2010
• Massive County Page Update!
  July 14, 2010
• Broken Links, Fixing them and a Request for Help
  July 5, 2010
• US Citizenship and Immigration Services
  April 23, 2010
• North Carolina Family Records Online
  February 27, 2010
• Madison County Genealogical Society Meetings
  July 31, 2009
• Castle McCulloch | Interesting North Carolina attraction
  July 24, 2009
• Happy Independence Day!
  July 4, 2009
• On the 65th Anniversary of D-Day
  June 6, 2009
• North Carolina Dialects
  April 22, 2009
• Popular Baby Names from 1880
  January 6, 2009
• Popular Baby Names from 1900
  December 30, 2008
• Popular baby names from 1920
  December 23, 2008
• Popular Baby Names from 1940
  December 16, 2008
• Popular Baby Names from 1960
  December 9, 2008
• Popular Baby Names from 1980
  December 2, 2008
• Gift Idea for Someone that Has Everything - A Painting from a Digital Image
  November 27, 2008
• Popular Baby Names in the Year 2000
  November 25, 2008
• Popular Name Series
  November 18, 2008
• Picasa 3 | Facial Recognition and the Family Genealogist
  November 11, 2008
• County Page Updates | Alamance, Catawba, Moore
  November 10, 2008
• United States - Election Tuesday 2008 - History of United States Presidential Elections
  November 4, 2008
• Strange Cache Problem - Technical Note
  October 31, 2008
• Zoom H2 Handy Recorder - GREAT for interviews
  October 28, 2008
• North Carolina African American Genealogy Research at the Olivia Raney Local History Library
  October 21, 2008
• Mecklenburg and Ashe Page update
  October 17, 2008
• North Carolina Genealogical Society web link hotlist
  October 14, 2008
• North Carolina Man Specializes in building Flintlock rifles
  October 11, 2008
• More County Page Updates and Query Forum Integration
  October 10, 2008
• WNC writer Robert Ballard releases new book.
  October 9, 2008
• Revolutionary Veteran James Baggett honored
  October 7, 2008
• County Page updates
  October 7, 2008
• Elon College providing O'Kelly Chapel Records Online
  September 30, 2008
• Gas situation in North Carolina
  September 25, 2008
• Back to (hopefully) regularly scheduled posts
  September 23, 2008
• County Page Expansion and Revision
  July 8, 2008
• Battle of Monroe's Cross Roads | Battle of Fayetteville Road | Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle
  July 1, 2008
• Somerset Place | Antebellum North Carolina Plantation
  June 24, 2008
• Map Page is out for the Time Being | Newsletter starting a bit later in the Summer
  June 17, 2008
• Western North Carolina Cicada (Locust) Invasion Update
  June 10, 2008
• Luther Bible donated to Mars Hill College
  June 3, 2008
• Genealogy Web Workshop in Charlotte area at Monroe Library June 2
  May 27, 2008
• Henderson County Library Genealogy Meeting Saturday May 24
  May 21, 2008
• North Carolina's Outer Banks - True Frontier
  May 20, 2008
• Tracing Your Family History through North Carolina
  May 13, 2008
• The Locusts are Coming! | The 17 year Cicadas are Coming
  May 9, 2008
• Getting Your Children Interested in the Family History
  May 6, 2008
• Taxes - Useful for Genealogy and Family History Research
  April 29, 2008
• How to Get Started on your Family History - Interviewing Family
  April 22, 2008
• Olivia Raney Local History Library
  April 15, 2008
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial - Old Kentucky Home Boarding House
  April 8, 2008
• North Carolina Tar Heels | Tarheels
  April 1, 2008
• Guidelines for Posting Good Genealogy Queries
  March 25, 2008
• New North Carolina Genealogy Forums
  March 18, 2008
• RSS Feed Strangeness with Google Reader
  March 12, 2008
• Online Newspaper Archives
  March 11, 2008
• Sharing Your Old Family Photos Online
  March 4, 2008
• Asheville Historic Photos Online
  February 26, 2008
• Cape Hatteras Lighthouse History
  February 19, 2008
• Best time of year for Genealogical Cemetery Expiditions (Cemunking)
  February 12, 2008
• The Struggle with Information Overload
  February 5, 2008
• The Dilemma of Online Privacy for the Genealogist
  January 29, 2008
• Dying Data
  January 22, 2008
• Upcoming New Article Series
  January 20, 2008
• Some Changes Coming Soon.
  January 20, 2008
• Comment Spam
  October 3, 2007
• River Cane and Canebrakes
  July 2, 2007
• The Tsalagi (Cherokee)
  June 15, 2007
• Lot's of good things going on...
  June 15, 2007
• Camp Douglas
  May 4, 2007
• Thomas "Tom" Elmore and Roxie (Peace) Russell
  February 27, 2007
• John Pleasant and Lillie Louetta (Calloway) White
  February 24, 2007
• David and Dicey E. (Moore) Blankenship
  February 21, 2007
• William Alexander and Nancy A. R. (Parker) Waggoner
  February 18, 2007
• Alson and Sarah (Russell) Gordon
  February 15, 2007
• Robert Patterson Bradley and Lydia Lavina (Blankenship) Bradley
  February 12, 2007
• Webrings and The Rail
  February 9, 2007
• Buncombe County Sheriff's Office History
  February 8, 2007
• 2007 WNC Calendar
  October 26, 2006
• Alexander Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery
  September 26, 2006
• Ashlawn Gardens Cemetery
  September 26, 2006
• West Memorial Park Cemetery
  September 26, 2006
• Hominy Baptist Church Cemetery
  September 26, 2006
• Lewis Memorial Park Cemetery
  September 26, 2006
• Google Base for Genealogy?
  September 11, 2006
• Migration patterns, South Carolina research workshop and finding your Revolutionary War ancestors
  September 5, 2006
• New Cemetery Maps - Google Map mashup
  September 5, 2006
• Pleasant Grove Union Church Cemetery (Buncombe County)
  September 5, 2006
• Brank Cemetery (Buncombe County)
  September 5, 2006
• Family pictures and facial recognition?
  August 4, 2006
• Domesday Book online
  August 4, 2006
• Genealogical Sight-seeing
  July 31, 2006
• Exciting Evening...
  June 2, 2006
• James Marion Parker (April 12, 1829 - March 19, 1915)
  May 27, 2006
• Old Maps of New England, New York and Pennsylvania
  May 24, 2006
• Genealogy tourism...
  May 19, 2006
• New Photos Section
  May 18, 2006
• Webring headaches....
  May 17, 2006
• Tar Heel Junior Historian Contest
  May 12, 2006
• Remains of reputed pirate to be relocated....
  May 9, 2006
• If this is not the page you expected
  January 16, 2006
• Old site archives
  January 16, 2006
• Durham Plantation traces family trees of slaves
  December 30, 2005
• Preserving your research
  December 10, 2005
• More thoughts on organizing your research
  December 10, 2005
• Mayflower descendants in North Carolina
  December 10, 2005
• Struggling to identify...
  November 23, 2005
• The history of Thanksgiving and the first Thanksgiving
  November 23, 2005
• Berry Bowen and Matilda Susannah Odum
  November 14, 2005
• Keeping your genealogy research and records organized
  November 13, 2005
• Coming soon - fake family history and genealogy info
  November 13, 2005
• Buncombe county Special Collections online
  November 8, 2005
• Buncombe County Library Card holders have access to online genealogy data
  November 8, 2005
• Publishing a book in small quantities or on demand
  November 4, 2005
• Articles of Confederation
  September 20, 2005
• Wachovia settlement
  September 20, 2005
• Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
  September 15, 2005
• Province of North Carolina
  September 10, 2005
• Province of Carolina
  September 7, 2005
• Province of the Carolanas
  September 4, 2005
• Granville District
  September 1, 2005
• Old Bute County
  August 30, 2005
• American Revolution
  August 28, 2005
• Old Dobbs County
  August 27, 2005
• Old Tryon County
  August 26, 2005
• Tryon Resolves
  August 24, 2005
• Preserving Cherokee Culture
  August 22, 2005
• Gathering celebrates Indian (Native American) Heritage
  August 22, 2005
• Mecklenburg Declaration of Independance
  August 22, 2005
• The State of Franklin
  August 20, 2005
• Battle of Alamance
  August 18, 2005
• War of the Regulation
  August 16, 2005
• Article on Johnston County Genealogist
  August 14, 2005
• World War II memories recorded
  August 14, 2005
• Battle of Kings Mountain
  August 14, 2005
• Battle of Guilford Courthouse
  August 12, 2005
• List of Passengers on board the Mayflower
  August 10, 2005
• Plymouth Colony Settlement (1620)
  August 9, 2005
• Confederate Veteran get's a gravestone
  August 8, 2005
• "L" counties updated
  August 8, 2005
• Roanoke Colony Settlement (The Lost Colony) (1584)
  August 8, 2005
• Cemeteries being neglected
  August 7, 2005
• Norwegian Colonization of the Americas
  August 7, 2005
• 60th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima
  August 6, 2005
• Interpreting Deed Information
  August 5, 2005
• Hezekiah Alexander homesite tours
  August 5, 2005
• Several More county updates
  August 5, 2005
• German Colonization of the Americas
  August 5, 2005
• County updates
  August 4, 2005
• Courland Colonization of the Americas
  August 4, 2005
• What will happen to your research after you die?
  August 3, 2005
• Used Genealogy Book site
  August 3, 2005
• Counties Starting with the letter 'g'
  August 3, 2005
• Danish Colonization of the Americas
  August 3, 2005
• World Wikitree for Genealogy and genealogists
  August 2, 2005
• Forsyth and Franklin Counties updated
  August 2, 2005
• Portuguese Colonization of the Americas
  August 2, 2005
• Update - Edgecombe County
  August 1, 2005
• Cemetery Transcriptions
  August 1, 2005
• Russian Colonization of the Americas
  August 1, 2005
• Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina - The Mountains
  August 1, 2005
• More details on Kinston casket excavations
  July 31, 2005
• The role of African Americans in the Civil War and Revolutionary re-enactment
  July 31, 2005
• Rosedale Plantation Reunion
  July 31, 2005
• News category
  July 31, 2005