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By Ginger Smith, January 2, 2013

Digital NC, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, has announced a new round of newspapers that are slated to be digitized in 2013 and contributed to the North Carolina Newspapers project. Among them is Durham’s own The Carolina Times  from 1965 – 1972. Digital NC is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at UNC-CH. They work with libraries, historical societies, genealogy societies, and archives across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic materials online in order to provide access to the materials.

Here is a list of several other newspapers slated to be digitized in 2013:

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By Ginger Smith, January 2, 2013

As many of you know, our website was compromised back in October and we lost a lot of data. We are currently looking at alternative website hosting services to switch to. In the mean time, I have added back a couple of pages that we lost, including the Surname Page and the Membership Contact page. Please take a look at these pages as they will be converted to the new website in a couple of months. We want to make sure we have the correct email address for each of you in order for you to receive your renewal notifications. Also, if you have surnames you would like to contribute to our Surname list, please email them to me at grs3275 AT yahoo.com [Replace the "AT" with the @ symbol]. The links to these pages are below.

D-OGS Membership Contact List (members-only)

D-OGS Surname  List

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By lthompson, December 31, 2012

12/31/2012 15:14:50
C. Grimmitt
grimmitt1@hughes.net

“Presently trying to prove the parents and siblings of my ancestor Andrew Jackson PUGH born in NC Dec. 1816.  His alleged parents, James PUGH and Sarah Ricketts PUGH, were married in Orange County in Nov. 1801.  I have found proof that one brother of Andrew Jackson PUGH was Joseph PUGH.  Other alleged siblings include a James PUGH, Jr., and possibly an Archibald PUGH.  All of the above mentioned PUGHS were present in Maury and Lewis Counties in Tennessee around 1840.
Wondering if there are any other records in Orange County that might provide some information as to whether they are indeed parents/siblings or not.
Thank you in advance for any help you may provide.”

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By Ginger Smith, December 31, 2012

The January 2013 D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, January 9th 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 and the lot behind the offices.

The speaker will be long-time D-OGS member Richard Ellington. Richard’s program topic will be: Protect Yourself and Your Data – Make Your Computer Safe for Data! He will be talking about things that you need to do to protect your computer and precious data from damage from all sorts
of potential problems – hardware, software, malware, backups and such.

PLEASE NOTE THE MEETING DATE OF JANUARY 9. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FELT
THAT MEETING ON THE DAY AFTER NEW YEAR’S DAY WOULD NOT HAVE VERY HIGH ATTENDANCE AND OPTED TO MOVE THE MEETING DATE TO THE 9TH.

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By lthompson, December 12, 2012

12/12/2012 11:57:49
John Johnson
926 Schenectady Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11203
buckwheat611@gmail.com

Any information on JOHNSON family, KIRKLAND family, and BETHEAS of Orange County

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By Ginger Smith, December 6, 2012

The December newsletter has been published and shared with our members and is now posted to the website.  You can find updates on all D-OGS events including upcoming meetings and minutes from past meetings, tips and tricks for doing your family history research, events going on in North Carolina and throughout the United States, and queries that have been submitted by folks looking for ancestors in Durham and Orange County, just to name a few.

Check it out!

December Newsletter

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By lthompson, December 6, 2012

12/5/2012 18:59:59
Brenda Arndt
BrendaA1951@gmail.com

“I am interested in any information you can give me on babies buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina:

1. O’Neal, (Baby)   (b. May 1907 – d. 11 Feb 1908)   Age 9 months
2. O’Neal, (Baby)   (b. Oct 1919 – d. 22 Mar 1920)    Age 5 months

Thank you.
Brenda”

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By lthompson, November 28, 2012

11/27/2012 16:10:44
GIA PARTAIN
gpartain1@comcast.net

“Hello,

I am trying to find out about a Captain James CARRINGTON (1752-1816) who was from Orange County and allegedly served under Lt Col. Archibald LYTLE in the Revolutionary War . I appear to be related to him. Supposedly he was a POW at the Siege of Charleston and he had a brother named George. Any information you have regarding him would be most appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Gia Partain”

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By lthompson, November 27, 2012

11/26/2012 21:02:35
R H Mewbourn
rhmewbourn@bellsouth.net

“From Alabama..searching for the exact burial location of Bernice and husband Charles:

Bernice Virginia Harvey CAIN, 82, died in her sleep Sunday Morning, July 28, 2002, in Orlando, Florida, where she lived.  She was born on Straight Mountain near Oneonta, the second child and only daughter of Elder and Minnie Elizabeth Tidwell HARVEY. She left home to study cosmetology in Montgomery, where she met and married Charles Franklin CAIN of West Virginia.  During World War II, Charles CAIN was stationed in Tampa.  As an aerial photographer in the Air Force, he served over Burma.  After later working in construction in Miami, he retired, and the couple spent some years in Blount County, where he researched and wrote books on the HARVEY and TIDWELL families.  Bernice CAIN was buried by her husband at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  She is survived by children Charles Alan CAIN and his wife, Peggy, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Frederick Norman CAIN, and Vicki Elizabeth Cain CHAMBERS and her husband Gene of Orlando; nine grandchildren and five great- grandchildren; and sisters-in-law Geniece, Juanita, Marguerite, and Myrtle HARVEY.  Besides her husband and parents, she was predeceased by brothers Arlin, Johnny Mack, Neal, and Wayne HARVEY.
[Blount Countian, August 7, 2002]”

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By lthompson, November 2, 2012

10/30/2012 10:26:51

Karen Trouvat

ktrouvat@gmail.com

MCFARLAND (all spellings) of Orange County

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