Family History and the Internet--ideas, questions and plans of action. This blog will guide you to excellent resources. My expertise is in the U.S. Pacific States, but I have a strong affinity with the transplanted Easterners and love to research Mid-Atlantic and New England States as well. Lots of suggestions of places to search you haven't yet thought of.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Looking for Records in Virginia and North Carolina
Looking for genealogical clues in Virgina and North Carolina records can be very challenging. There just aren't that many that are available. There are a couple of websites which I found very helpful while looking for vital records. One of these is "New York and Virginia Genealogy" (yes, it also has a few North Carolina records, too) which has transcriptions of many vital records online, and the other website that has really been a boon in research is FamilySearch.org. There are new records there for marriages and deaths which I had not found anywhere else, and the documentation is excellent.