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2025 Genealogy Conference
The Genealogical Gems Found in Ledgers
Have you explored private and little known archival (aka manuscript) collections? They are full of ledgers and account books, membership lists, and so much more! You can learn so much about your family and neighborhood through these records. Relationships are sometimes noted. Store, business and physician ledgers can link family members and provide many interesting details invaluable to your family history narrative.
Extra! Extra! Read all About It
Extra! Extra! Read all About It – worldwide Tour of Newspaper Platforms & resources. There has been an explosion in newspaper platforms. Covid helped accelerate digitization projects of newspapers. We’ll cover oldies but goodies like Google Newspapers, locality-specific projects like DigitalNC, national projects – British, Finnish, etc. – and multi-country projects (e.g. Europeana) to Veridian Software client projects (International) to keeping up on new projects via Ancestor Hunt and so much more! The focus is online access and FREE!
Migrations 2: North Carolinians on the Move
Reconstruction and early 20th Century Migration -- Throughout history many of those who stepped foot in North Carolina have migrated into, across and out of the state. Reconstruction and the early 20th century accelerated certain types of out migration from the state. The economic devastation created by the Civil War and the needs of those formerly enslaved to reconnect with far flung family members resulted in many leaving North Carolina. Increasing discrimination against African Americans, World War I, and the depression found many more North Carolina families fragmented as some members moved to the Norfolk-Portsmouth area, or New York City, or locations with robust factory-based economies – either as part of the “Great Migration” or those just seeking opportunities unavailable in North Carolina. We’ll explore the factors leading to out migration from NC, efforts to replenish the workforce, and how we might link “back to NC” from where its former citizens ended up
50 Overlooked Genealogical Resources in 50 Minutes!
Between 2006 and 2023, I [Diane] authored almost 500 Net Notes columns for Internet Genealogy, which looked at websites and related news that were sure to be of interest to researchers.” This column provided a quick snapshot of neat, free genealogically relevant databases that caught my eye. We are not referring to database additions to Ancestry or FamilySearch, et al. Many of these are homegrown, narrowly focused databases that just might provide you with an invaluable piece of information. Let’s look at a “whole bunch” of hidden gems you have available at your fingertips that you might not be aware of..