NC Tax Lists at NC Digital Collections
It’s always a good idea to look at original records yourself. More than once, I’ve...
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Category: Beaufort County Genealogy
Laughinghouse Mythology
It’s time for some myth-busting. There are a couple of persistent ones that surround this...
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Family Tree Fact Check: Miranda Ross Gaskins
While Ancestry is notorious for spreading false information, you should also be wary of...
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Is Harriet Morris a relative of Laban Morris?
(This article was originally published July 25, 2018. It was most recently updated June 6, 2019.)...
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The Family of Elisha Morris of Beaufort County, NC
The following post is an attempt to reconcile information that I’ve gathered so far, as well...
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Holmes Family Migrations from NC to Smyth County, Virginia & Lee County, Alabama
The family of John Holmes, Sr. went in different directions after the death of their...
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The Brother-in-Law Conundrum
The word “brother-in-law” is becoming the bane of my research. In earlier times, the...
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Family Tree Fact Check: The wife of Thomas Respess Crawford
I don’t descend from Thomas Respess Crawford, at least not that I’m aware of, however...
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Will of Garrett Nelson (Beaufort County), 1856
The following is a transcription of the will of Garrett Nelson of Beaufort County, dated 15 May...
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The John Gray Blount Mysteries, Part 2: The Legacy and the Assumed Name
For this installment, we turn to the third volume of the collection. In this book, there are...
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Joyner Family Bible Records & related material
I’m sure many of you Joyner researchers have already sorted this out, but I’m still...
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The John Gray Blount Mysteries, Part 1: The Twist of the Wife
One day a couple of years ago, I googled the name of my elusive 4th great-grandfather, Wilson...
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