Check out these local events to celebrate Black History Month:
Stagville State Historic Site – Stagville Under the Stars! – Saturday, February 18, 2012 -7:30pm to 9:30pm – Stagville will partner with Morehead Planetarium again to celebrate Black History Month! We will begin inside with storytelling focusing on the astronomy and night sky myths and legends told in African cultures. Step inside original structures from the 1700s and 1800s where interpreters can answer questions about the lives of enslaved people or peer through the planetariums telescopes at Mars, Jupiter, and maybe even Venus (view permitting)! The program will wrap up with a constellation tour looking at the same stars as our ancestors. Fun for the whole family! Expand your universe, bring your friends and family, and observe the sky. This program is free and open to the public.
North Carolina State Capitol – Feb. 18: African American Read-In – Saturday 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm. Local authors, community leaders, and students read from works by their favorite African American writers at the Capitol for the 23rd annual National African American Read-In. Fiction and non-fiction for children, teens, and adults will be featured in an afternoon of great works. Presented with Wake County’s Richard B. Harrison Library. Admission is free. Donations are kindly accepted.
Alamance county genealogical society – February 13 2012 – retired Elon University professor Carole Troxler will be talking about her new book, Farming Dissenters – The Regulator Movement in the Piedmont.
The Alamance County Genealogical Society meets the second Monday of each month except June, July and August, at 7:00 p.m., at the Western Steak House, 142 N. Graham-Hopedale Road Burlington, NC 27215, 336-227-1448
Stagville state historic site – Sunday, February 12, 2012 -2:00pm to 4:00pm. Stagville welcomes Dr. Sydney Nathans, Professor Emeritus of History with Duke University. His most recent publication, To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker is available February 2012. This book explores the story of Mary Walker, an enslaved woman at Stagville plantation who in August 1848 fled the Bennehan/Cameron family for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Mary Walker was not reunited with her family until the end of the Civil War. Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family brings an often untold story of the Civil War era to life. This program is free and open to the public.
- Stewart Dunaway
Date: February 1, 2012
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Topic: The McCulloh Great Tracts – Their Impact on Genealogy Research
Speaker: Stewart Dunaway
Location: Bennett Place located at 4409 Bennett Memorial Road, Durham,
NC 27705-2307 - (919) 383-4345 - http://www.nchistoricsites.org/bennett/
*Note* Stewart will sell and sign books at the end of the meeting.
About the topic:
The McCulloh Great Tracts – and their impact on
genealogy research
Henry McCulloh was a typical adventurer in the realm of colonial
politics and economics. He is said to have been a merchant of London,
and his home was at Turnham Green, Middlesex County. He probably became
interested in North Carolina through his relations with Gabriel
Johnston, to whom he advanced considerable sums of money between 1726
and 1733. McCulloh’s deepest interest in the New World was that of a
land speculator. In 1737, the Crown delivered to Murray Crymble and
James Huey, trustees for McCulloh, warrants for 1,200,000 acres in North
Carolina, on condition that 6,000 foreign Protestants should be colonized.
Related information about the topic:
http://piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com/2010/01/settlers-in-tract-11.html
http://piedmontwanderings.blogspot.com/2010/01/great-tract-11-and-haw-river.html
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Royal_Colony/nc_royal_colony_henry_mcculloch.html
About the speaker:
Stewart Dunaway, formerly an executive of Siemens Telecom (FL), is
retired and now spends time researching colonial and revolutionary war
history in North Carolina. He has published myriad historical books as
well as genealogy-related material from the State Archives. He has
transcribed over 19,000 records from the Archives, now provided in book
form. His books can be found on the internet at:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/sedunaway.
Stewart, his wife Maryellen, and daughter Sarah reside in Hillsborough.
Monday, January 30, 6:00 PM–
Get Organized: GO Month – Truths and Myths About Being Organized:
Ever wondered how to get that organized look out of a magazine? Lori Bruhns, time management consultant and professional organizer, will share the truths and myths about being organized and what is real and realistic about getting and staying organized. January is Get Organized Month, so kick off the year with some great tips from Lori. Find out more or register online at the Orange County Public Library.
Bennett place – Durham Civil War Roundtable – 19 January, 2012 from 6:30 PM until 9:00 PM.
The Durham Civil War Roundtable is open to the public with an annual membership fee of $15.00 to cover the cost of guest speakers, refreshments, and administrative costs.
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Peggy Boswell will be talking about the Scott Collection. The Alamance County Genealogical Society meets the second Monday of each month except June, July and August, at 7:00 p.m., at the Western Steak House, 142 N. Graham-Hopedale Road Burlington, NC 27215
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The January 2012 D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 4 January, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Christ United Methodist Church offices in Southern Village, south of Chapel Hill on US 15-501. The street address is 105 Market Street, rooms 103 & 105. Here is a map: http://tinyurl.com/cby3fyt. This address is the office building for Christ Church and is across the street from the church. There is parking on the streets around the church.
Our speaker for January will be D-OGS member Ann Myhre. Ann’s topic will be “The War of 1812 in the Lower South – the Rest of the Story.” James McEwen, Ann’s great-great-great-grandfather, served as a Captain and a Major in the war in the lower South. He and other members of his family left stories about the war and their service from their perspective. A great-great-grandfather, Joel Regen, also served but left only official records; he was a private. What official records are available for those who served, and how do we find them?
Ann Regen Myhre grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee, but has lived in Garner more than two-thirds of her life. She has a BA and an MS in Biology from East Tennessee State University and a BS from NCSU. She has taught, worked in a lab and was a church administrator. She began her genealogy search over 55 years ago and has researched her ancestors and those of her family members in New England, the South including Texas, the upper Midwest, Canada, Norway and the Czech Republic. She and husband John have two married children and two grandchildren.
Ann has provided this related information about the topic:
http://www.warof1812.ca/intro.html
http://www.ancestry.com/militaryrecords
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
http://www.history.com/topics/war‐of‐1812
The next general meeting of the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society (D-OGS) will be held on Wednesday evening, 7 December 2011 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Golden Corral on NC55, just south of the intersection of NC54 and NC55. Address: 5006 NC Highway 55, Durham, NC 27713, (919) 544-2275 – Map. There is a “Senior Discount,” if you qualify.
This is not a regular meeting. There will be no speaker or fixed program. This is our annual “birthday party” for everyone to enjoy. Come and enjoy the fellowship of your fellow D-OGS members and their guests. Dress will be as formal or casual as you require.
When you arrive, pay for your meal and proceed to the back right of the restaurant to their meeting/party room. This is a good time to bring your spouse, a significant other, friend or potential new member so that you can introduce them to all those people that you have mentioned during the last year – yes, we plan on having name tags.
The next D-OGS meeting will be Wednesday, October 5th at 7pm at Duke Homestead.
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The speaker will be Thomas H. Krakauer, Ph.D. He will be speaking about the Museum of Durham History, a new virtual community that ties elements of Durham’s past together into a cohesive story for generations to come. More information can be found on their website at the Museum of Durham History.
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