Just a quick post this time, but I’ve had so many connections come out the woodwork this week from sharing family tree information online it’s been crazy. got an email from a possible cousin based on her husband’s lineage from former slaves on the Kemp P. Battle plantation in Edgecombe County, NC where my 4th […]
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As a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I feel urged to share this news as widely as possible – the UNC Libraries are adding old issues of the school yearbook, the Yackety Yack (formerly the Hellenian), online to the Internet Archive. I find some irony in the fact that I
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I’m going to take Randy up on his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for August 8, 2009. Not because of the intent to document my ethnicity for that is very easy – to the best of my current knowledge, all (with the exception of 1) of my ancestors as far as I can trace have been
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I knew it was a mistake to get back on the computer after I *said* I was going to bed. But, I had to check the email and feed readers “one last time.” Well, now it’s going to cause me to be up long enough to do this blog post, but I couldn’t wait because what
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A couple of days ago, I discovered a new genealogy blog – Robyn’s blog, Reclaiming Kin. I found her through Randy’s “Best Of the Genea-Blogs” post from Sunday. Well, yesterday she posted on using court records for research and her experience of looking at records in Edgecombe County, NC inspired my Tombstone Tuesday post of
This is my first Tombstone Tuesday post and since I had the perfect opportunity to do one, I thought I would. This is the tombstone of Kemp Plummer Battle Sr. Kemp was what you would call a “prominent” North Carolinian; he was highly active and involved in many matters of the state, including serving
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a not so wordless post – this is the hall where one of my ancestral relatives, Dred Wimberly, represented Edgecombe County in the 1900 Republican National Convention. Source: Harvey, Charles M. Official Proceedings of the Twelfth Republican National Convention. 1900. Google Books. 22 Sept. 2008 <http://books.google.com/books?id=6SIQAAAAYAAJ
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Today Google announced on their Book Search Blog that they have developed a series of partnerships in order to more fully integrate Google Books into existing websites. In the post, they highlight several advantages of this feature including “For example, suppose you’ve turned to the Books-A-Millionsite to look for a book on the history of your
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The September 20, 1898 issue of the Charlotte Observer featured an article titled: “Negro Week in Edgecombe: Black Republican Convention.” As was often the case with some of these older articles, this is the overall synopsis– “Not a White Man in the Crowd — This is the set the White population are fussing with and
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Before I discovered the wonderful world of genealogy a couple of years ago, my hobby of choice was cross-stitching. I still enjoy stitching, I just don’t do it as much (you can see all the projects I’ve completed here). Back in 2003, while on a business trip out to San Diego and while there had
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