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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 at Archive.org, but for convenience's sake, over the next few days I'm going to post the sections on the formation of Beaufort County (including Bath County), Craven, and...

Using AncestryDNA? For goodness’ sake! Please post a tree!

Some amazing things are happening right now in our family thanks to several of us taking the AncestryDNA test. We're on the verge of solving the puzzle of our Whitford family origins (In other words, did we come from Scotland, as was long suggested, or perhaps...

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 testing, we can now break through genealogy barriers that have stumped our forebears for generations. In the past, East Carolina Roots has recommended...

Researching Pitt County? Snap this up while it’s still available!

Pitt County can present some challenges for genealogy researchers. It was one of the North Carolina counties that suffered destruction of records by fire — in this case, the courthouse was burned in 1857. Still, there are some wonderful resources if you know where to...

A FREE Research Goldmine for Genealogists

Since 1996, Archive.org has been quietly building one of the best online FREE libraries in existence. I'm fairly certain they've got the Google books database beat. There you can find old texts such as the Hotten's Lists of Original Persons of Quality (something...