Consider this great opportunity to support your Society! This is a Board position and does not require an accounting or bookkeeping background, or for you to live in the Raleigh area. Can be done remotely! Contact President@wakecogen.org for more info!

 

• Ted Bainbridge offers companion articles about revisiting your research and using original documents to get the most out of your research.
• Meet our new Board Members.
• Olivia Raney Family History Library renovation sneak peek.
• Barbara McGeachy profiles two valuable local learning resources - Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Raleigh Senior Tech Ed
• Cynthia Gage digs deeper into advanced newspaper research with some search strategies that will find gems in the press to add to your ancestor's story.
• Strategies for researching challenging surnames.
• Details on a recent gift of genealogy books to Thornton Library.
• A curated list of genetic genealogy videos to sharpen your skills at all levels.
• A call from North Carolina Genealogical Society for Bible Records for their future publication.
• Dennis Martin and Cynthia Whited profile the books and book series that are the culmination of their twenty years of research.
• Yet another surprisingly packed event calendar.

As the spring issue of Wake Treasures is released, I hope it finds each of you healthy and well while we all collectively wait out the coronavirus.  We are in an unprecedented situation and I can only imagine the stories we will have to tell on the other side of this.  Until then, we can all do our part by staying home and doing what we love - genealogy.  Now is the time to finally write those stories, work on the book your relatives have been asking about and develop those research plans for when the archives reopens.

 

In this issue you’ll find a variety of new material.  Debra Blake from North Carolina State Archives wrote on resources for researching early North Carolina ancestors.  Phil Upchurch of Allied Families has written about the intersection of his ancestry with that of another old Raleigh family.  Previously we have published the 1897 School Census for white children, and now we include part of the colored children’s school census in this issue.  The record set will continue in the next issue.  Carey Faison continues his series “Railroads, Hortons, and Faisons.”  Soldiers Home Records are also included in part, with the intention of continuing in the next issue.
 
This issue could not have happened without the volunteers who helped to transcribe these records.  Please consider volunteering to transcribe from home.  If you are interested, please contact me for more information.
 
Hope you enjoy, Donna Shackle, Editor