Need to Find a Public Library?
Yours truly is a medical librarian and even with information delivery being my profession, I sometimes have trouble locating where the nearest public library is located when I’m doing my genealogical research.
This morning, I found this site that lets you search for public libraries in North Carolina. It is provided by the National Center for Education Statistics and you can searchor browse by city or by county, specify what type of library you’re interested in, and you can even search by distance from a specific Zip code. Check it out here! I have also placed this link on the Consolidated List of NC Resources here on the NCGenWeb site.
Contact Form — you may also have noticed that red button on the left side of the NCGenWeb site page. This links to a contact form widget that I created using a tool from http://visitorcontact.com. I learned of Visitor Contact from Thomas over at Geneabloggers.com – thanks for the link Thomas!
Vance County Back Online
Vance County has a new site. Please visit at http://www.ncgenweb.us/vance/. The site has been rebuilt, so if you have any data to contribute, please consider doing so.
Edward Vance Little Home: Then & Now
This is the Edgar Vance Little home in Conover, NC circa 1912-1920:
This is the home as of recent, courtesy of Google Maps:
Now occupied by Dellinger Interiors, the home is in Conover, Catawba County, North Carolina. Almost 100 years later, this home looks like it is still doing well; though of course you can see some changes have bene made. This is one of the tidbits of history you can learn by visiting the Conover, NC site of the NCGenWeb Project! A link has now been added to the sidebar of the NCGenWeb under NC History & Genealogy.
When You Don’t Know the County
…you can use the search on the NCGenWeb sidebar to find it out as long as you have the city. Rootsweb offers a convenient tool for finding out what county a particular city is in. I’ve used this lookup repeatedly over the past year, but could never remember the direct URL. Now that it is on the sidebar I know this will save me a lot of time and I hope it will save you time as well.
Welcome to the New NCGenWeb
Welcome to the newly revamped NCGenWeb website. It is our hope that the new site helps you locate what you need and gives you the best access to the rich resources of the NCGenWeb Project.
With the new site, we are also introducing our NCGenWeb News Blog! Through the blog, we will occasionally share statewide project updates, announcements of new materials uploaded to our county sites, and other information as relevant for our North Carolina researchers. Be sure to add us to your feed reader.
Over the next few weeks, there may be a few kinks here and there in the site, but if you find anything wrong, just let us know.
