http://www.ncgenweb.us A USGenWeb Project Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:27:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.ncgenweb.us/north-carolina-yearbooks/comment-page-1#comment-296 Taneya’s Genealogy Blog » VA Pension Cards 1907-1933 Going Online Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:42:43 +0000 http://www.ncgenweb.us/?page_id=853#comment-296 [...] For the last two months I have been actively monitoring items added to the Texts collection at the Internet Archive (IA).  By subscribing to several different RSS feeds, I’m able to check them every few days and see what is being uploaded.  For example, I learned that UNC Chapel Hill Library has been adding old issues of yearbooks and blogged about this incredible resource even well before their official announcement.  Even then, their announcement was only for the yearbooks from UNC-Chapel Hill, when they’ve added yearbooks for many other schools besides just UNC-CH. [...] [...] For the last two months I have been actively monitoring items added to the Texts collection at the Internet Archive (IA).  By subscribing to several different RSS feeds, I’m able to check them every few days and see what is being uploaded.  For example, I learned that UNC Chapel Hill Library has been adding old issues of yearbooks and blogged about this incredible resource even well before their official announcement.  Even then, their announcement was only for the yearbooks from UNC-Chapel Hill, when they’ve added yearbooks for many other schools besides just UNC-CH. [...]

]]> http://www.ncgenweb.us/north-carolina-yearbooks/comment-page-1#comment-287 Upcoming Presentations at Duke : NCGenWeb Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:57:24 +0000 http://www.ncgenweb.us/?page_id=853#comment-287 [...] Now, interestingly enough,  your host just realized that the very first Archivist of the United States was Robert Digges Wimberly Connor.  I recognized the name immediately because RDWC (as I’ll call him) was from Wilson County,  North Carolina and was a great-grandson of my family’s slaveholder, Robert Diggs Wimberly.  RDW very likely owned my 4th great-grandfather, AllenWimberly (I don’t have proof yet, just A LOT of circumstantial evidence).   RDWC graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1899, and now, thanks to their yearbook collection up to 1966 being online, you can find him listed in the 1899 Hellenian.   As an item of note – Duke’s yearbooks are also being placed online. [...] [...] Now, interestingly enough,  your host just realized that the very first Archivist of the United States was Robert Digges Wimberly Connor.  I recognized the name immediately because RDWC (as I’ll call him) was from Wilson County,  North Carolina and was a great-grandson of my family’s slaveholder, Robert Diggs Wimberly.  RDW very likely owned my 4th great-grandfather, AllenWimberly (I don’t have proof yet, just A LOT of circumstantial evidence).   RDWC graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1899, and now, thanks to their yearbook collection up to 1966 being online, you can find him listed in the 1899 Hellenian.   As an item of note – Duke’s yearbooks are also being placed online. [...]

]]> http://www.ncgenweb.us/north-carolina-yearbooks/comment-page-1#comment-271 Taneya’s Genealogy Blog » He Was the 7th Son Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:16:39 +0000 http://www.ncgenweb.us/?page_id=853#comment-271 [...] out though, she may be online soon enough. Her alma mater, UNC_Greensboro’s yearbooks are currently being put online by the University of North Carolina – her year looks like it will be added within the next few [...] [...] out though, she may be online soon enough. Her alma mater, UNC_Greensboro’s yearbooks are currently being put online by the University of North Carolina – her year looks like it will be added within the next few [...]

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