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genealogy webinars
Join GenWebinars instructions Diane L. Richard and David M. McCorkle at the North Carolina Genealogical Society Conference, either live in Raleigh NC or online. They will be giving 3 lectures and 1 workshop, and GenWebinars will have a table in the vendor room so you can meet them in person!
Post offices aren’t just about employees or even the mail. Most of us receive our newspapers and magazines mailed directly from the publisher or purchased in a store. That wasn’t how it used to be - there was no rural door-to-door delivery before the turn of the 20th century!!! Who handled subscriptions for reading material? They were handled by the postmaster at the post office! Wouldn’t you like to see great-great-grandpa’s subscription list? Some of these subscription lists DO survive and can provide insights about a person, including religious and/or political leanings, hobbies, news interests, and much more. We’ll also talk about other post office records that tell us who our ancestors purchased from, sent mail orders to, and more! Information often found nowhere else!
GenWebinars instructor Diane L. Richard will be giving 3 lectures at the Texas State Genealogical Society 2024 Family History Conference - 1 live and 2 recorded for on-demand playback. This virtual event will feature TxSGS Live! November 1-2, 2024, and offer an additional 31 pre-recorded lectures.
Frequently, women are not as well documented in government records, so surviving small business ledgers of stores, physicians, lawyers, blacksmiths, and more provide us invaluable details about our female ancestors, their purchases, and their FAN club – minutiae found nowhere else! This information helps us fill in the gaps in their lives and that of their household and often leads to other discoveries. Learn all about ledgers – why they exist, how to interpret them, and where to find them. Then, enjoy the many examples of ledger types, their entries, and how women are included!
Artificial Intelligence tools can be used to quickly extract and organize information from individual land records or multiple records simultaneously, including all the parties involved and their roles, metes and bounds, public land descriptions, geographic features, and neighbors.
Many valuable and overlooked databases don't make headline news. They are usually hiding in plain sight. Every day, new ones are being created. Many are not genealogically focused and are genealogically leverageable. All can be explored from the comfort of your home 24/7. Most are FREE. Let's explore 50 juicy gems from around the world covering a range of topics from African American to Archivist/Scholar to US (broad and narrowly focused) to the UK and so much more – you will make NEW discoveries. Many of these are my “go-to” websites, a part of my genealogy research toolkit, which I regularly use.
Historical maps can help identify your ancestor's neighbors, migration routes, churches, where they might be buried, and much more. This lecture will review the types of maps available online, where to find them, what they mean, and how to use various free mapping tools to combine different types of maps and data in order to create your own maps based on your research.
Artificial Intelligence tools can be used to quickly extract and organize information from individual land records or multiple records simultaneously, including all the parties involved and their roles, metes and bounds, public land descriptions, geographic features, and neighbors.
Newspapers bring so much color to the lives of our ancestors. Daily-life details are revealed in newspapers and not often found elsewhere unless private correspondence or a diary survives. An explosion of newspaper platforms and digitized issues has occurred, and COVID-19 helped accelerate new and old newspaper digitization projects. We’ll cover oldies but goodies to brand new projects worldwide! The focus is online access and FREE!
Are you just starting to research your North Carolina ancestors, or have you researched for a while and hit brick walls and need a refresher? This webinar starts at the very beginning with the founding of the area now called North Carolina, and continues forward through history noting many of the types of records created both common and obscure, how they can help your research, and where to find them both online and in record repositories.
From 1748 to 1777 all land grants in the upper half of NC were issued by Lord Granville instead of the Colonial government. Although similar to Colonial grants, they require different techniques for finding and understanding them. They can also yield valuable information not found elsewhere.
Understanding the legal jurisdiction and geography of ancestors and events is critical in finding needed genealogical records. For various historical reasons, records are not always found in the most obvious places. The four Abbott brothers, responsible for a one-family 18th-century Piedmont crime spree, will help us illustrate this.
