Do you set goals for your family history? As 2021 is now over and today is the first day of 2022, I thought this would be the perfect day to recap last year and set goals for next year. My friend, Julie Cahill Tarr, recently posted about her 2022 goals and she inspired me to […]
Genealogy Recap 2021, Genealogy Goals 2022 Read More »
My graduate project when I obtained my library and information science degree from UNC-Chapel Hill was to index a rap music magazine. I came up with controlled terminology, created a database, and indexed issues of The Source, one of my favorite rap music magazines at the time. I was an avid reader of the publication,
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My father’s family is from Craven County, North Carolina, and one of the churches his family worships in is Alum Springs Church. Today, the church held a celebration and my great-aunt, who is a member there and heavily involved in church activities, asked if I could contribute to the program and research the history of
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Whenever I tell the story of how I got involved in doing family history research, an important element to that story is how much help I gained from the Washington County, North Carolina USGenWeb site. It was such a tremendously valuable resource as I was getting started with my family history that I knew I
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Okay, I wasn’t featured, but one of my projects was! I’ve just written a blog post for the TNGenWeb project describing how one of our Special Projects was included in a presentation at the National Newspaper Digitization Program’s annual meeting. The NNDP is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and this past
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This weekend has been a busy one! I volunteer with the TNGenWeb Project as the State Coordinator, and this weekend we had a meetup of some of our county coordinators (along with a new volunteer). I wrote about it on the TNGenWeb blog so I invite you to read the post! We had a lot
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I’m a huge fan of the work that is done by the CommonCraft team – Lee and Sachi. For several years now, they’ve blessed the internetz with fabulous explanation videos. As their tagline says – their product is “explanation.” Their whiteboard animation process really sparked a movement and we now see these types of videos
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Of course we are familiar with many biases that occurred with census taking throughout history, but this is still hard to see, especially in print. I found this today while indexing the Roanoke Beacon newspaper for my Washington County, NCGenWeb site.
Are Negroes Mules? Read More »
While indexing some old issues of Winston-Salem State University’s yearbooks tonight for the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index, I found another relative! This time, I found Lossie Viola McNair (1923-2008). Lossie is a member of the 1946 graduating class and the yearbook shows that her nickname was “Mae.” Later on in the yearbook, in the “Who’s
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When the 1940 US Community Census Project was announced, I wondered if I’d even take the time to participate. However, I quickly realized this would be a great opportunity to become more familiar with the FamilySearch Indexing software and give back at the same time. Soon after signing up, I decided to go ahead and
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