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Traversing the Past: Colonial Travel in Eastern North Carolina
Traveling through New Bern on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd or to Chocowinity on Hwy 17 or Greenville on 43,…
WARNING! Be cautious using ChatGPT for genealogy research
I love technology and I'm always up for trying new things. Last month, I used ChatGPT — a site I…
Genetic Genealogy Basics: Ethnicity Reports, Autosomal DNA, mtDNA, Y-DNA and DNA site comparisons 🌳
A lot of people have all kinds of questions about DNA tests and family tree research. Genetic genealogy has exploded…
NC GENEALOGY TREASURE TROVE 100% FREE at FamilySearch – Learn to search the UNINDEXED CATALOG
The best free genealogy resource online is FamilySearch.org, and in particular, their free online catalog. A lot of people get…
Genealogy on YouTube
If you're like me, you spent more time watching YouTube in 2020 than you had previously. Some of those months…
General Assembly Session Records available online
I've had to take a break from research for the past few months because I've been so busy with work,…
Ancestry ThruLines™ — Proceed with caution!
I logged in to AncestryDNA today and was greeted by a new feature called ThruLines™ where the DNA Circles used…
East Carolina Roots now recommends AncestryDNA for genealogy testing
(Get $10 off the AncestryDNA test! Link is below.) Thanks to many modern advances, such as the internet and genetic…
Colonial Coroners’ Inquests for Beaufort, Craven, and Pitt Counties
Next to genealogy and history research, my second favorite obsession is watching MeTV. I love those old shows, from Andy Griffith…
Letter from Turner Nelson to James Roach – 1825
The following is a transcription of a letter from Turner Nelson to James Roach dated July 19, 1825. This is…
Just because it’s on a sign, doesn’t mean it’s true
If you’re ever in the Old Burying Ground in Beaufort, NC and see this sign, just know it’s wrong. The…
Create a historical calendar, with moon phases
Have you ever wondered what day of the week a historical event happened? Or what about what kind of moon…