Over the weekend I spent some time indexing issues of the Roanoke Beacon.  I extracted articles from the March – June 1890 issues to the NC People in the Papers Continue Reading →

A marker near the Washington County Courthouse mentions three fires that burned it – 1860, 1862, and 1881. While indexing old issues of the Alamance Gleaner (paper of Alamance County, Continue Reading →

Newspaper indexing is one of my favorite pasttimes.  For the past several years I’ve been working through older issues of the Roanoke Beacon paper teasing out information about Washington County Continue Reading →

On Saturday, September 18th 2010 Plymouth’s only known remaining Primitive Baptist Meeting House, the Concord Primitive Baptist Church, will have their homecoming celebration! Featured speaker for the day is Rev. Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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 Continue Reading →

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. Continue Reading →

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, Continue Reading →

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.

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 Continue Reading →