Speaker: Cheryl Williams

 

Freed slaves founded Oberlin in the late 1860s, which became the largest Reconstruction-era black settlement in Wake County.  By 1880, some 160 families lived in Oberlin Village.  They established churches, schools and businesses. They buried their loved ones at the Historic Oberlin Cemetery.  Today, the area is designated a History Overlay District. Come learn about the contributions the people of Oberlin and their descendants have made to Raleigh history.

 

Speaker: Diane L. Richard, Owner & President, Mosiac Research and Project Management

 

Discovering where denominational records are held, what might be available, and how to access them can challenge us.  Increasingly though, helpful finding materials are being published or placed online to assist in nonsecular research. Fortunately, we also find online archives (digitized records) of religious records we can access from home. This increased access to these incredibly valuable and insightful records enriches our family history research. Let’s explore how to research the spiritual affiliations and faith-based lives of our ancestors. General resources and strategies will be discussed as well as some specifics regarding Methodist, Quaker, Baptist, Moravian, Presbyterian, and the records of other denominations.

 

Speaker: Various

 

In partnership with the Wake County Public Libraries and specifically with the Olivia Raney Local History Library,  this program will look at the many reasons our immigrant ancestors departed their home country, their struggles in doing so, and the uncertainties and complexities they encountered in a new country. The focus will be on North Carolina and Wake County immigrants.

 

Speaker: Myrick Howard

 

Founded in 1939, Preservation NC is North Carolina’s only private nonprofit statewide historic preservation organization. Its mission is to protect and promote buildings, landscapes and sites important to the diverse heritage of North Carolina. Preservation NC  enjoys a national reputation, having been cited by the National Park Service as “the premier statewide preservation organization of the South, if not the Nation” and the National Trust for Historic Preservation as “the model organization of its kind.”  Join us to hear the stories behind the "saves" and learn more about this important resource.