North Carolina Genealogy

The North Carolina Genealogical Society has a nice collection of links available. Certain counties and libraries are listed as well as family pages, other North Carolina resources. It looks like it might be worth adding into any list of North Carolina Genealogy links.

Just found this interesting story of a gunsmith that specializes in reproduction of flintlock rifles (the style that was used in the Revolutionary War.) It takes about 500 hours to complete a gun. (Wow!)

Just thought I’d post a note to acknowledge that I’ve modified the following county pages: Beaufort,Bertie,Bladen,Brunswick,Buncombe,Burke. Also…

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My Tuxedo No Longer fits is the title of the new book by Robert Ballard. Copying from the press release:

“Robert Ballard grew up during the golden years of the 1950’s and 60’s in the small, rural Western North Carolina textile village known as Tuxedo. Life was simple back then, and Ballard shares engaging, humorous, and often poignant stories about the residents of Tuxedo.

The book’s early chapters are devoted to the mill, the village and the business enterprises that surround the village. Over thirty photographs are included throughout the book, providing visual detail to the business within the community and some of the interesting and colorful people who operated them.”

The book is available at http://www.lulu.com/content/2663964 (lulu.com)

A new grave marker was unveiled amid ceremony to honor the military service of Revolutionary War veteran James Baggett. He was born in North Carolina in 1756 and moved to Tennessee in the early 1800s with his family. More details about the ceremony and James Baggett are available through this article.

Here’s a quick in-between regular posts note….

I’ve been working the last couple days on County page revision and expansion. This is likely a process that will never really end, but…. I’ve made improvements to the following pages:

Alamance County Genealogy, Alexander County Genealogy, Alleghany County Genealogy, Anson County Genealogy, Ashe County Genealogy, Avery County Genealogy, Chowan County Genealogy, Craven County Genealogy, Forsyth County Genealogy, Granville County Genealogy, Martin County Genealogy, Montgomery County Genealogy, Scotland County Genealogy, Robeson County Genealogy

I think that covers the list of what I’ve updated at this point. I know there are MANY more to improve. Unfortunately some seem little more than a stub, but I’m trying to make it a priority to get to each of them.

According to the Elon Pendulum, there are several new resources for genealogists online at the Elon Website. Two early record books of O’Kelly Chapel, recognized as the first “Christian Church”, are available now online. Elon College was founded by Christian Ministers in 1889 that were followers of James O’Kelly who founded a congregation that later became known as the “Christian Church”.

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If you’re coming to Western North Carolina for genealogy research you might find a lot of things, gasoline is going to be hard to get this week though. If you’re looking for gas in Buncombe County, North Carolina that link may be of some help.

Hopefully I’ll be back into a routine of regularly scheduled posts after the absence of the last little spell. It’s been a busy summer and my stockpile of scheduled content hit bottom….. i.e. there were more weeks than there were articles. Things have quited down just a bit so hopefully I’ll have a chance to get some more material lined up and headed your way. I’m pleased to see some activity starting at the North Carolina Genealogy forums and some interest in the Mailing List in spite of the long absence.

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I spent a good part of February and perhaps March over at the South Carolina Genealogy site expanding and revising the county pages to make them more of what I had envisioned from the outset and I’m starting the process here as well. I’ve toyed with the idea of forgoing frequent posts while I’m in this process and that may happen. I had always hoped that the county pages could be a single stop for resource information (and links) for each county and hopefully we can get there. Of course, North Carolina has 100 counties (South Carolina only has 46), so… it may take me some time to go through the entire list.

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