College Grads from Washington County
A new resource for the NCGenWeb project is an index of students from North Carolina colleges & universities. Yearbooks are wonderful sources for learning more about your ancestors and their activities during their college years. The NC Yearbook Index is a searchable database of students (mostly graduating seniors) from schools across the state. The index [...]
Ambrose Family Reunion – June 5
Jean Robinson shares the following information about the Ambrose Family Reunion. Its reunion time in North Carolina! We’ve moved the reunion to what used to be Ellsberry Ambrose’s property in Creswell, NC. The reunion will be held at Mt. Tabor Freewill Baptist Church located at 1159 Mt. Tabor Road, Creswell, Washington County, North Carolina. The building [...]
New Free NC Databases
FamilySearch, a service provided by the Church of Latter Day Saints, has recently announced a collection of new records added to their research database collection. Among the updates were several databases of North Carolina vital records. The new databases include North Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964 North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979 North Carolina Deaths and Burials, [...]
43rd Reynolds Family Reunion
43rd REYNOLDS FAMILY REUNION 10:00 AM on Sunday May 16th, 2010 Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Tyrrell County NC This is a reunion of the descendants of William Reynolds Jr. and his sister Matilda Jane Reynolds Spencer, both originally from Chelsea, England. William Reynolds Jr. lived in Tyrrell County and became a Primitive Baptist Preacher, [...]
New Cemetery Added: Rufus McNair Cemetery
A new cemetery has been added to the Cemeteries page, the Rufus McNair Cemetery. This African-American cemetery is located on Reno Road and I personally have many relatives buried there, including my 3rd-great-grandparents Rufus Tannahill McNair (for whom the cemetery is named) and his wife, Mariah Wimberly McNair. The page can be found here.
Estate Records
The NC State Archives recently provided a list of estate records from Washington County 1869-1959 on their website. I’ve added a link to it from the Wills & Estates page.
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For those that may prefer to get an email to learn of new content instead of visiting the site or subscribing to the site RSS feed, I have finally set that up. Signing up for an email alert is a two-step process: 1. Click here to enter your email address 2. Once you enter [...]
Obituary: William Cotton Downing
Roanoke Beacon March 14, 1890 In Memoriam Our community was painfully shocked on Saturday morning last, the 8th inst., by the receipt of a telegram from Turtle Creek, Penn., the adopted home of the deceased, that Wm. Cotton Downing was dead, his death occurring suddenly in Asheville, N.C., on Thursday, the 6th inst. He had [...]
New Page for Directories
I’ve added a new page with links to freely available directory information for Washington County. The page is here. Currently, the years span 1903-1916 but I hope to be able to add more as time goes on.
New Education Page
A new page has been added to the site for capturing information of genealogical & historical interest about education in Washington County. The first two documents on the page include information about commencement in 1899 at Plymouth Academy and another article about the re-election of John McDonald as principal of the Plymouth State Normal [...]
