You might find some Kornegay history here if you would like to search it. Ruth Ancestry Daily News "A Daily Dose of Genealogy" http://www.ancestry.com/ 16 June 1998 In this issue: -Database of the Day: North Carolina Death Index, 1978 -Today's New Map: Vera Cruz to Mexico City 1847 -Hispanic Links & Resources -RootsWeb News -DearMYRTLE -Product of the Day at the Online Store: "Your English Ancestry" =========================================== DATABASE OF THE DAY (Free for 10 Days!) North Carolina Death Index, 1978 This informative database contains death records for approximately 50,000 residents of the state of North Carolina. Provided by the state Department of Health and Human Services, this information covers persons who died between January and December 1978. Information included in this collection is location of death, residence prior to death, marital status, and age at death. For any researcher looking for a resident of North Carolina this database can be immensely valuable. For those looking for specific details regarding a particular person, questions can be addressed to North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, State Center for Health Statistics, North Carolina Vital Records, P.O. Box 29537, Raleigh, NC 27626-0537. This database is from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. North Carolina Death Records, 1978. Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1998. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3301.htm ============================================ TODAY'S NEW MAP (Free for 10 Days!) Today's FREE map is: Vera Cruz to Mexico City 1847 To view this map, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/whatsnew.htm HISPANIC LINKS & RESOURCES Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica Arq. Jorge V. Barbabosa y Torres, Presidente Calle Misión #11, Fraccionamiento Lomas de Santa Fé, México, D.F. CP 01210M AOL Hispanic Genealogy Special Interest Group http://members.aol.com/mrosado007/index.htm Genealogical Society of Hispanic America -Southern California http://home.earthlink.net/~ririgoyen/ Hispanic Genealogical Society http://www.brokersys.com/~joguerra/jose.html Hispanic Genealogy (Compuserve) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/alfred_sosa/ Latin American Network Information Center -Mexico (From University of Texas/Austin) http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/mexico/ MexicoGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mexwgw/ Texas General Land Office http://www.glo.state.tx.us/central/arc/spanmex.html NEWS FROM ROOTSWEB The ROOTS-L State Pages, home of "The Best Sixty Links for Every State," have been updated to the June release. All links have been recently verified, and many new sources have been included. 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To order or for more information, visit: http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/7186/order.html ************************************************** For those of you who are not familiar with RootsWeb, this organization now provides a home for about 3,618 genealogical mailing lists and about 2,827 genealogical web sites. RootsWeb is funded by the contributions of individual members of the Internet genealogical community. For more information about the organization, and the benefits of becoming a RootsWeb sponsor, visit RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/ ============================================ Dear MYRTLE -ANCESTORS FROM MARYLAND From: Cheryl Baez <baez@Radix.Net> DearMYRTLE, I have researched my family back to my g-g-g-grandfather and have hit a major roadblock. I know that William Benjamin Tucker moved from Calvert County, Maryland to St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1851. I have an excellent wealth of newspaper articles and documentation from that point on, but have had no luck tracing him backwards. I have no knowledge of his parents' names. Calvert County has no data to research as their courthouse burned in 1889, there was no newspaper in the early to mid 1800s in the county and no organized churches. Any suggestions on where to search now? BTW, my family was not one for saving family heirlooms, not even pictures, a family bible or trinkets...so I have nothing to go on from them. DearCHERYL, Gosh, I feel so close to you with my PG, Anne Arundel and Howard County ancestors! Let's see what "Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources" has to say on the subject: >From the table listing details of St. Mary's County: Circuit Court PO Box 308 Leonardtown, MD 20650-0308 Orphans Court PO Box 602 Leonardtown, MD 20650-0602 Records began: 1658. St. Mary's County, MD was created in 1637. (That certainly predates my Christopher Gist in 1679 of the Baltimore County region!) The most encouraging news is a special notation that while "the courthouse was destroyed by fire in 1831. Some deeds were re-recorded back to 1781, and abstracts of deeds sent to Annapolis beginning in 1784 also make up for some of the records that were destroyed." This important fact is often overlooked by genealogists. You have to believe that the day after the fire, folks were lined up to reconstruct the land records. This was a matter of rights to ownership, and I am sure there were many anxious folks until the disputes got settled! "Newspapers in Maryland Libraries: A Union List," by Eleanor O. Hofstetter and M. S. Eustis may provide further insight to old publications housed in the Maryland State Archives. Additionally, several newspaper abstract books are listed on pages 294-295 in the Red Book. Have you checked PERSI (Periodical Source Index) for your ancestor's name, and for information on St. Mary's County Maryland? It's available in book format at larger public libraries, and is also found on CD-ROM and in searchable format to subscribers at Ancestry.com <http://www.ancestry.com>. In a global search of Ancestry's databases regarding William Tucker in Maryland, I found about a thousand hits, without refining the search. However, I browsed the 16 hits in PERSI for your ancestor. There was an interesting entry for the Norfolk/Tucker Family Bible 1821-1841 Calvert County. There was another on the Tucker Family of Calvert County, MD and a third about the Tucker/Drury family of Maryland and Missouri. When asking for more details on the bible index entry, PERSI provided me with the following details. Norfolk/Tucker Family Bible 1821-1841 Volume 4, Issue 10, January 1990. Periodical Title: Calvert County Maryland Genealogy Newsletter General Subject Area: U.S. Topics: MD Notes: v.1-2n.3--Calvert Co. Gen. Newsletter ACPL Holdings: v.1-1986- ACPL Call Number: OPEN ISSN Number: 0895-8939 Other repositories holding this title include: Allen County Public Library, Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton Co. (partial holdings) Publisher: Calvert County Genealogy Society Publisher Address: POB 9 Publisher City: Sunderland Publisher State: MD Publisher Zip: 20689-0009 Subscription Price: 12.00 PERSI Code: MDCV This means you may write to the Allen County Public Library or the publisher, The Calvert County Genealogical Society, for a copy of the magazine article! Here's hoping the writer provided a well-documented summary! Additionally, I recommend looking at printed indexes to wills which have been published for both St. Mary's and Calvert Counties. A further notation from the "Red Book" states: "While some records are available in the counties, most original and/or microfilm copies of land, estate, vital and court records have been transferred to the Maryland State Archives. As new county records are created, they will continue to be filmed and sent to the state archives." Also consider what federal records may have been created, such as 1812 pensions which come to light about 1878 or so. Don't give up! Myrt :) Further Reading: "Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources," Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G., editor. 1989 Orem: Ancestry, Inc. DearMYRTLE's Maryland Research Suggestions http://www.ancestry.com/columns/myrtle/my980521.htm Roots Web Surname List -Query http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/rslsearch.html "The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy," Loretto Dennis Szucs & Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, editors Revised 1997. Orem: Ancestry, Incorporated. 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