Hi all. I wanted to let everyone know of an online event going on that is relevant to all these surnames (As I've seen all these surnames in NC) but Coventry and Hupp, and maybe there is someone on those lists with lines in NC who would benefit. Quite a few of you know that I host genealogy chats at http://www.genealogyforum.org for Southern US genealogy and my cohost and I have decided to start holding short classes and lectures during our chat. Our first class/lecture will be on October 10th (Monday night in 2 weeks) from 9-10pm EST. The topic will be using North Carolina apprenticeship records in our genealogy research. Here are some of the things I will talk about: 1. Laws regulating apprenticeships 2. What can you learn from apprenticeship records 3. Where you can find apprenticeship records 4. A Q&A session where I can answer your questions and hopefully give advice for specific situations There may be some instances where I can volunteer to do lookups in the state archives *and I will take requests during the talk* but my time is limited so I will be going case by case. You don't need to give me sob stories to get me to do a lookup, hehe, most likely I can help, but that is just something we can discuss during the talk. What I cannot do: 1. I cannot give advice or do lookups on apprenticeship records outside of NC. Different states had different ways of handling apprenticeship records and I only know NC and I don't have access to records in other states If you have ancestors in NC, please come and join us, Monday night, October 10th, 9-10pm EST in http://www.genealogyforum.org (enter the chat room, no need to enter a password). Hope to see some folks there and good luck to everyone with their research! Erin Erin Bradford eabradfo@yahoo.com List manager http://www.ncalhn.org ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)