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: Pitt County Genealogy
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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Laughinghouse Mythology
It’s time for some myth-busting. There are a couple of persistent ones that surround this...
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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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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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Select items from the estate records of Amon Joyner of Pitt County
There were at least two Amon Joyner living contemporaneously in Craven and Pitt Counties. How they...
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Will this help us find the mother of Laban Morris?
[su_note]UPDATE (5 May 2019) – Turned out it is NOT one of the Hemby girls as I had wondered...
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Formation of Pitt County, North Carolina
Pitt County was formed after Beaufort and Craven Counties, but the establishment of its border...
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Formation of Craven County, North Carolina
Read the descriptions below for Craven County’s shifting borders and see if it helps some...
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Formation of Beaufort County, North Carolina
The Formation of North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943 by David Leroy Corbitt is available for free...
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Family Tree Fact Check: Richard Furney Gaskins & Saphronia “Fanny” Venters
This new series will attempt to correct records, one family branch at a time, that have mushroomed...
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Select Craven County Griffin Items (Court minutes, deeds, wills, etc.)
I do descend from the GRIFFIN family of Pitt County, though I’ll admit I haven’t spent...
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