Facebook Genealogy Resources These are genealogy resources and groups that I participate within online. Have found them to be of value. Know of a group that I should be following? Bill Golden, Norfolk1956@gmail.com … Georgia … North Carolina … South Carolina … Ninety Six Historical Society … https://www.facebook.com/ninetysixhistoricalsociety/ … … The South Carolina Historical Society … Read more
Jobs That No Longer Exist, or New Names Ever run across reference to ‘William was a ___ for 20 years’ and you have no clue what that was? Someone has compiled a list of those jobs with an explanation. Some examples: BATMAN – officers servant in the army BILLIER / BILLYMAN – operated a Billy … Read more
DNA SNP Tracker Gold/Gould yDNA Projects Resources to compare your yDNA: … FamilyTreeDNA: Gold and Gould Project … … FamilyTreeDNA: Golden Golding Goulden et al … … WikiTree Golden DNA Group Project … yDNA Groups of Interest … Cumberland Gap Y-Line DNA Project … has results for Ballard, Bennett, Buckner, Carpenter, Carter, Catlett, Compton, Cooper, … Read more
Essex County, Virginia Digitized Records FamilySearch has some digitized records if you know where to find them. It can sometimes seem like magic finding them. I admit to being one of those that use the generic search engine and being often frustrated with the results. Luckily there are some magical people in genealogy groups that … Read more
America’s Newspapers Free to search, copy and to share. Search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. Rights and Reproductions The Library of Congress believes that … Read more
DNA SNP Tracker Using the DNA SNP Tracker, you enter your terminal SNP or a primary SNP associated with your line. An approximate location and timeline will be displayed. ?Know your SNPs? Try it now by going to the SNP Tracker and entering a SNP ?Do not know your SNPs, but have taken an Ancestry … Read more