True Stories from Colonial North Carolina
I was recently asked by Wake County Public Libraries to give a virtual Zoom presentation on...
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Category: Early Colonial Records
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) Craftsman Database Search
Do you happen to have a carpenter in your family tree? How about a blacksmith? A bricklayer? Or...
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Laughinghouse Mythology
It’s time for some myth-busting. There are a couple of persistent ones that surround this...
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Research Hodge Podge – Part 1
I’ve been researching a bunch of different things lately and I’m trying to...
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Will of Thomas Rountree (Chowan County) – 1748
In trying to make sense of the connections between the Rountree and Wallace families, I’m...
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Early Rountree (Roundtree) Items – Mostly Chowan County
The following items are pulled from the North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol....
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Many early North Carolina families are named on the Moseley Map (1733). Is one of them yours?
How early were your ancestors in North Carolina? If they were here prior to the War of...
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How do your ancestors fit into North Carolina history?
If your genealogical research has largely been limited to Ancestry.com, the NC GenWeb and perusing...
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Calendar of State Papers – A little known resource that can be a treasure trove
The following are much like the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, however, these are...
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