Rick, I will first give you the step-by-step method to get to these records and then attempt to give you the final URL. Start on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill home page http://www.unc.edu/ Click on the Carolina Blue word "Libraries" in the righthand column which takes you to the page: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ From here there are multiple possible pathways. One way from here........... You can scroll to the little pictures in the LOWER RIGHT of this page and click on the word "DocSouth" in the picture legend that reads "Digital Collections including DocSouth" That takes you to the home page for the Documenting the South at http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Click on the DROP-DOWN for "Collections" The second little picture or the words "The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina (Beta)" take you to the page http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/ They loaded volumes 1-10 and 12 over the New Year's break earlier this week. Try browsing pages, searching the index, etc. Remember this is a BETA/Test version and is only part of the eventual 30 volumes. Another way to get to the Digital CSR database is here............ From the UNC Libraryies webpage at http://www.lib.unc.edu/ click at the "Libraries & Collections" entry under the orange words "About the Libraries". This takes you to http://www.lib.unc.edu/libraries_collections.html Click on the entry "DIGITAL COLLECTIONS" in the alphabetical list of collections to get to the page: http://www.lib.unc.edu/digitalprojects.html The first little picture in the list of digital projects is for "Documenting the American South". Click on that link to get to the page: http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Click on the DROP-DOWN for "Collections" to get to the page: http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/collections.html The second little picture is the link to "The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina (Beta)". Click it to get into the database page at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/ ----------------------- The URL to go directly to the data Jason demonstrated for us Wednesday night is: http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/ Try it and send Jason your comments/criticisms/questions/etc Click on the DROP-DOWN for CSR Help and select "Contact Us" for the email form to type in your feedback. Elizabeth Hamilton, Vice-president of D-OGS Rick Frederick wrote: > Greetings: > > What URL do I give my subscribers to find this resource? > > Thanks. > > Rick > Webmaster > Caswell County Historical Association > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > | Behalf Of Paul Hollinghurst > | Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:20 AM > | To: [email protected] > | Subject: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 2 January 2008, "The > | Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet Age Ancestors" > | > | Wednesday, 2 January 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting > | > | TOPIC: "The Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet > | Age" > | SPEAKER: Jason Tomberlin > | > | Documenting the American South and the North Carolina Collection, both a > | part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, are > | digitizing the twenty-six volume set of The Colonial and State Records of > | North Carolina, together with the four-volume Index to the Colonial and > | State Records of North Carolina. This three-year project continues the > | legacy of an earlier generation's extensive scholarship, improves it with > | this generation's technology, and empowers today's and tomorrow's users by > | offering easier, more efficient, and more flexible access to 9500 > | colonial- > | and early state-era documents. They are encoding all 30 volumes in XML/TEI > | according to current national standards and best practices. The 400,000 > | index entries are encoded by their type, i.e. personal name, geographic > | name, and topic (e.g., "slaves," "slaves and quotas"). Through XML > | encoding > | and database records, they are connecting all relevant index terms to each > | document. They are also offering the functionality to search by document > | date, document type, personal name, geographic name, topic, and creator, > | as > | well as offering several browse features. In addition, they are working > | with > | the University's School of Education to provide learning objects and > | lesson > | plans that will guide K-12 teachers and students in using these valuable > | documents. For genealogists, K-12 students, university faculty, and > | members > | of the general public, these documents are of great importance both > | because > | of their inherent value and because of the paucity of such resources. > | > | Jason Tomberlin, who is currently the special projects librarian at the > | North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, is a native of > | Knoxville, Tennessee. He has, however, lived in various parts of North > | Carolina for most of his life. He graduated from the University of North > | Carolina in 1997 with a BA in History and from North Carolina State > | University in 2003 with an MA in Public History. Prior to working at UNC, > | he held positions in the special collections libraries at Duke University > | and North Carolina State University, and for four years, he worked in > | public > | services at the North Carolina State Archives. > | > | D-OGS Meeting will be held on: > | Wednesday evening, 2 January 2008 at 7 p.m. > | Duke Homestead Visitor's Center > | 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705 > | Phone: (919) 477-5498 > | One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) > | Follow the brown historic site road signs. > | > | A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj > | Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm > | ******************************** > | > | ************************* > | Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > | Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > | http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > | > | ------------------------------- > | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDOGS- > | [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > | subject and the body of the message > > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Greetings: What URL do I give my subscribers to find this resource? Thanks. Rick Webmaster Caswell County Historical Association | -----Original Message----- | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On | Behalf Of Paul Hollinghurst | Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:20 AM | To: [email protected] | Subject: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 2 January 2008, "The | Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet Age Ancestors" | | Wednesday, 2 January 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting | | TOPIC: "The Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet | Age" | SPEAKER: Jason Tomberlin | | Documenting the American South and the North Carolina Collection, both a | part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, are | digitizing the twenty-six volume set of The Colonial and State Records of | North Carolina, together with the four-volume Index to the Colonial and | State Records of North Carolina. This three-year project continues the | legacy of an earlier generation's extensive scholarship, improves it with | this generation's technology, and empowers today's and tomorrow's users by | offering easier, more efficient, and more flexible access to 9500 | colonial- | and early state-era documents. They are encoding all 30 volumes in XML/TEI | according to current national standards and best practices. The 400,000 | index entries are encoded by their type, i.e. personal name, geographic | name, and topic (e.g., "slaves," "slaves and quotas"). Through XML | encoding | and database records, they are connecting all relevant index terms to each | document. They are also offering the functionality to search by document | date, document type, personal name, geographic name, topic, and creator, | as | well as offering several browse features. In addition, they are working | with | the University's School of Education to provide learning objects and | lesson | plans that will guide K-12 teachers and students in using these valuable | documents. For genealogists, K-12 students, university faculty, and | members | of the general public, these documents are of great importance both | because | of their inherent value and because of the paucity of such resources. | | Jason Tomberlin, who is currently the special projects librarian at the | North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, is a native of | Knoxville, Tennessee. He has, however, lived in various parts of North | Carolina for most of his life. He graduated from the University of North | Carolina in 1997 with a BA in History and from North Carolina State | University in 2003 with an MA in Public History. Prior to working at UNC, | he held positions in the special collections libraries at Duke University | and North Carolina State University, and for four years, he worked in | public | services at the North Carolina State Archives. | | D-OGS Meeting will be held on: | Wednesday evening, 2 January 2008 at 7 p.m. | Duke Homestead Visitor's Center | 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705 | Phone: (919) 477-5498 | One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) | Follow the brown historic site road signs. | | A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj | Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm | ******************************** | | ************************* | Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ | Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: | http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCDOGS- | [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the | subject and the body of the message

Carol, I am sorry I was not able to attend the meeting this morning. We had a death in our church and I felt I needed to attend the funeral. I look forward to hearing what was discussed and the plans made. Mabel Dillard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NCDOGS] January 5, 2008 D-OGS CIG Meeting The CIG will meet in the Chapel Hill Public Library, at 9:00 AM in the small conference room downstairs. Happy New Year, all you digital D-OGS! 2008 is a beautiful blank slate for our CIG meetings, so think about what you'd like to do this year - it's wide open. For the January meeting we'll list some of the things we'd like to see or to accomplish throughout the year, and make suggestions for our agendas. This Saturday, following up with our December project, we'll do a few more searches for bashful ancestors using a variety of web search engines, and share some tips for special situations. Remember we will need a name, birth, marriage and death information as well as location if you know it to get us started. We'll talk about some new developments too, and the biggest of these for some of us who attend the CIG is the release (finally!) of TMG version 7. And about time too, some of our members were fairly frothing at the mouth to see it finally. What did you get in the way of holiday gifts this year? A new laptop? Your first PDA? A new cell phone that does the dishes while you work on your computer genealogy? Bring your digital goodies along if they're portable and we'll talk about their neat features. If you're planning to make a purchase, perhaps we can share some valuable information there as well. Don't forget to send me the urls you've discovered while you had all that time off over the holidays so we can look at them too. We've got lots to do, so come along and join the party. ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ************************* Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks, Jeff. Couldn't help noticing that they left Wales completely off the list. :-( Don't get no respect! Cathy In a message dated 12/31/2007 5:18:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: fyi... [Looks like you/we Welsh folks have some competition!! :) ] Jeff Palmer - [email protected] * * * Quote of the Week: “Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” — George R. Kirkpatrick (1867-1937) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:30 AM About N.I.M. Best Raleigh-Durham Anglo-Saxon Celtic Heritage Group Topics: Celtic Culture, Pagan, Republican Party, Medieval History Meet other locals interested in Anglo-Saxon "English" and Celtic "Irish-Scottish" Culture. Gather to discuss Anglo-Saxon and Celtic origins, history, art, Pre-Christian Religions, and music. The Traditions of the Old Country ARE alive and well, in the New World !!! Sponsored by N.I.M. INTERNATIONAL Political Lobby at www.nimcrown.org Recent N.I.M. Travels made to both England and Scotland, which included an official visit with BRITISH CONSERVATIVE PARTY Headquarters in London. Celebrate our Heritage from England, Scotland, and Ireland WITHOUT unfounded Racist Lables nor illegal Racist Actions. America was founded upon British principles and institutions. Both the American Revolution and the War of 1812, were battles with the mother country, in which, friendships resulted when the fighting ebbed. The British are closely related to the Germans, who FOUGHT BITTERLY in Two World Wars, who later, created close ties under NATO during the Cold War. If Castles, Knights, Stone Henge, English & Celtic Legends, and Travel, are part of your interests, come JOIN US !!! 2006 Stone Henge, England Travel: http://www.nimcrown.org/nim%20stone%20henge%20england.htm No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1204 - Release Date: 12/31/2007 12:20 PM ************************* Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)

The CIG will meet in the Chapel Hill Public Library, at 9:00 AM in the small conference room downstairs. Happy New Year, all you digital D-OGS! 2008 is a beautiful blank slate for our CIG meetings, so think about what you'd like to do this year - it's wide open. For the January meeting we'll list some of the things we'd like to see or to accomplish throughout the year, and make suggestions for our agendas. This Saturday, following up with our December project, we'll do a few more searches for bashful ancestors using a variety of web search engines, and share some tips for special situations. Remember we will need a name, birth, marriage and death information as well as location if you know it to get us started. We'll talk about some new developments too, and the biggest of these for some of us who attend the CIG is the release (finally!) of TMG version 7. And about time too, some of our members were fairly frothing at the mouth to see it finally. What did you get in the way of holiday gifts this year? A new laptop? Your first PDA? A new cell phone that does the dishes while you work on your computer genealogy? Bring your digital goodies along if they're portable and we'll talk about their neat features. If you're planning to make a purchase, perhaps we can share some valuable information there as well. Don't forget to send me the urls you've discovered while you had all that time off over the holidays so we can look at them too. We've got lots to do, so come along and join the party. ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)

fyi... [Looks like you/we Welsh folks have some competition!! :) ] Jeff Palmer - [email protected] * * * Quote of the Week: “Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” — George R. Kirkpatrick (1867-1937) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:30 AM About N.I.M. Best Raleigh-Durham Anglo-Saxon Celtic Heritage Group Topics: Celtic Culture, Pagan, Republican Party, Medieval History Meet other locals interested in Anglo-Saxon "English" and Celtic "Irish-Scottish" Culture. Gather to discuss Anglo-Saxon and Celtic origins, history, art, Pre-Christian Religions, and music. The Traditions of the Old Country ARE alive and well, in the New World !!! Sponsored by N.I.M. INTERNATIONAL Political Lobby at www.nimcrown.org Recent N.I.M. Travels made to both England and Scotland, which included an official visit with BRITISH CONSERVATIVE PARTY Headquarters in London. Celebrate our Heritage from England, Scotland, and Ireland WITHOUT unfounded Racist Lables nor illegal Racist Actions. America was founded upon British principles and institutions. Both the American Revolution and the War of 1812, were battles with the mother country, in which, friendships resulted when the fighting ebbed. The British are closely related to the Germans, who FOUGHT BITTERLY in Two World Wars, who later, created close ties under NATO during the Cold War. If Castles, Knights, Stone Henge, English & Celtic Legends, and Travel, are part of your interests, come JOIN US !!! 2006 Stone Henge, England Travel: http://www.nimcrown.org/nim%20stone%20henge%20england.htm No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1204 - Release Date: 12/31/2007 12:20 PM

Paul: I cannot attend the meeting. I would like to have any info you can forward to me. Doris Saunders> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:20:23 -0500> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 2 January 2008, "The Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet Age Ancestors"> > Wednesday, 2 January 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting> > TOPIC: "The Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet Age"> SPEAKER: Jason Tomberlin> > Documenting the American South and the North Carolina Collection, both a> part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, are> digitizing the twenty-six volume set of The Colonial and State Records of> North Carolina, together with the four-volume Index to the Colonial and> State Records of North Carolina. This three-year project continues the> legacy of an earlier generation's extensive scholarship, improves it with> this generation's technology, and empowers today's and tomorrow's users by> offering easier, more efficient, and more flexible access to 9500 colonial-> and early state-era documents. They are encoding all 30 volumes in XML/TEI> according to current national standards and best practices. The 400,000> index entries are encoded by their type, i.e. personal name, geographic> name, and topic (e.g., "slaves," "slaves and quotas"). Through XML encoding> and database records, they are connecting all relevant index terms to each> document. They are also offering the functionality to search by document> date, document type, personal name, geographic name, topic, and creator, as> well as offering several browse features. In addition, they are working with> the University's School of Education to provide learning objects and lesson> plans that will guide K-12 teachers and students in using these valuable> documents. For genealogists, K-12 students, university faculty, and members> of the general public, these documents are of great importance both because> of their inherent value and because of the paucity of such resources.> > Jason Tomberlin, who is currently the special projects librarian at the> North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, is a native of> Knoxville, Tennessee. He has, however, lived in various parts of North> Carolina for most of his life. He graduated from the University of North> Carolina in 1997 with a BA in History and from North Carolina State> University in 2003 with an MA in Public History. Prior to working at UNC,> he held positions in the special collections libraries at Duke University> and North Carolina State University, and for four years, he worked in public> services at the North Carolina State Archives.> > D-OGS Meeting will be held on:> Wednesday evening, 2 January 2008 at 7 p.m.> Duke Homestead Visitor's Center> 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705> Phone: (919) 477-5498> One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175)> Follow the brown historic site road signs.> > A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj> Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm> ********************************> > *************************> Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/> Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ i’m is proud to present Cause Effect, a series about real people making a difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_Cause_Effect

Wednesday, 2 January 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting TOPIC: "The Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet Age" SPEAKER: Jason Tomberlin Documenting the American South and the North Carolina Collection, both a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, are digitizing the twenty-six volume set of The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, together with the four-volume Index to the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. This three-year project continues the legacy of an earlier generation's extensive scholarship, improves it with this generation's technology, and empowers today's and tomorrow's users by offering easier, more efficient, and more flexible access to 9500 colonial- and early state-era documents. They are encoding all 30 volumes in XML/TEI according to current national standards and best practices. The 400,000 index entries are encoded by their type, i.e. personal name, geographic name, and topic (e.g., "slaves," "slaves and quotas"). Through XML encoding and database records, they are connecting all relevant index terms to each document. They are also offering the functionality to search by document date, document type, personal name, geographic name, topic, and creator, as well as offering several browse features. In addition, they are working with the University's School of Education to provide learning objects and lesson plans that will guide K-12 teachers and students in using these valuable documents. For genealogists, K-12 students, university faculty, and members of the general public, these documents are of great importance both because of their inherent value and because of the paucity of such resources. Jason Tomberlin, who is currently the special projects librarian at the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee. He has, however, lived in various parts of North Carolina for most of his life. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1997 with a BA in History and from North Carolina State University in 2003 with an MA in Public History. Prior to working at UNC, he held positions in the special collections libraries at Duke University and North Carolina State University, and for four years, he worked in public services at the North Carolina State Archives. D-OGS Meeting will be held on: Wednesday evening, 2 January 2008 at 7 p.m. Duke Homestead Visitor's Center 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705 Phone: (919) 477-5498 One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) Follow the brown historic site road signs. A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm ********************************

fyi... Jeff Palmer - [email protected] * * * Quote of the Week: “Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” — George R. Kirkpatrick (1867-1937) -----Original Message----- From: ScotlandsPeople [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:28 PM To: ScotlandsPeople Updates Subject: What’s New At ScotlandsPeople ScotlandsPeople wishes everyone all the best for the festive season. *** New Data Announcement*** We are pleased to announce that this year we have received permission to release the new years statutory data earlier than in previous years. Customers can now access, online, records from the Statutory Register of Births for 1906, the Statutory Register of Marriages for 1931, and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1956. Almost 100,000 new index and corresponding image entries have been added to the site, amounting to six gigabytes of data. This is now available at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ ***Major Update of County/District Lists*** In addition to the new data release, we have just deployed the biggest single district list update on the site to date. These include corrections of indexing district names for Statutory Birth, Death and Marriage indexes. Please note that these updates may result in new results appearing in previous searches. As always, we do stress that customers read the extensive help regarding how to best find elusive entries. See, for example, Help with Searching http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=551&556 2007 has been a busy year for ScotlandsPeople with the launch of a major OPR index update, OPR district/county search and the addition of OPR images. RCE images were also added, and the time limit for using credits was extended to 90 days. In response to customer requests, we added ‘Mothers maiden surname’ to the statutory death forms, ‘second person forename’ to the census forms, and improved the ‘previous searches’ and ‘viewed images’ functionality to include filtering and sorting of results. Please note that our help desk is planning to observe the public holidays of 25th & 26th Dec and 1st Jan & 2nd Jan. During this time we will however keep you informed of the site status via the normal online message system. Finally, look out shortly for exciting announcements regarding the addition of the modern indexes to the site. A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone from ScotlandsPeople. To stop receiving ScotlandsPeople announcements, please log into your account at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk , click on “My Details”, check the opt out of email announcements box and then click on the Update Details button to commit the request. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.11/1200 - Release Date: 12/27/2007 1:34 PM

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The January 2008 Newsletter is now available online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memberspage/ Please note the change of extension from /membersonly/ to /memberspage/ You will need to change the URL if you have saved the old to your Favorites. Is your family having a reunion? Do you have news or events you want to include in the monthly Newsletter? Email your write-ups and material to Newsletter Editor, Richard Ellington, [email protected] or call: 919.967.4168 *************************

Allen: Your message reminded me of our search a year or so ago for the Carlton family cemetery, that I recall visiting 40 or 50 years ago, when I went on long walks with my kids through the then undeveloped area which is now occupied by Hope Valley Farms. You and I could not locate it at that time. I have more recently followed the same route that I took back then, attempting to locate it. I crossed Third Fork Creek near the end of Hamstead Court, and passed through a heavy thicket of brush and swamp, emerging in a hilly terrain which I clearly recall from my earlier walks. I soon came to the back side of the apartments and homes which are now Hope Valley Farms. There was no cemetery. You will recall that one of the streets in the area near where the cemetery was probably located is named Carlton Crossing. Had the graveyard been moved, and the street name assigned in honor of these historic occupants? I have also located some notes that I jotted down on one of our family walks. The site contained a hand adzed log cabin, which still had articles of furniture and some scraps of clothing, but was absent doors and windows and most of the roof. It was clearly the old Carlton home place. Near the cabin was the graveyard, which contained perhaps 10 or 12 marked sites. Some had headstones, and some did not. I was struck that several members of the family had died within days of each other, and I wondered if they had been victims of some epidemic. Typhoid fever was a possibility, as was smallpox. My notes contained the names from the graves with headstones. These are: Henry T. Carlton, born July 15, 1811, died January 27, 1900 Millie B. Carlton, born February 18, 1818, died February 1, 1900 Carolyn Hurst, born May 5, 1841, died February 3, 1900 Martha F., wife of H.O. Harward, born July 15, 1838, died January 5, 1909. Note that three of these four died within a week in Jan./Feb. 1900. I later talked with a person who had lived in the area a long time (I did not record her name) and she told me that Henry T. Carlton was the son of an original settler on the property named Daniel Carlton. Henry married Amelia Trice, and they had four daughters (among other children) who married farmers in the immediate area, named Harward, Hurst, Shepherd, and Pope. Thus the headstones are those of Henry, Millie (Amelia), and two of their daughters. Daniel and his wife may have also been buried there. The purpose of this rambling message is to underscore the point of Allen's message, and to also alert descendents of the Carlton Family that their family cemetery may no longer be in existence. Perhaps the descendents will find the above information of value. Harvey Estes. Allen Dew wrote: > Please, everyone... take a look at this web site to see what happens > to abandoned cemeteries in Durham. > > http://endangereddurham.blogspot.com/2007/12/mcmanhandled-when-your-footers-need-to.html > > Does anyone know where the burial remains were moved to? I need to > update the CemeteryCensus web site for this cemetery. > > http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/durh/cem060.htm > > > > ----- > Allen Dew > voice: 919-471-3548 or 919-528-0161 > cell: 919-423-5300 > E-mail: mailto:[email protected] > Web Pages: <http://cemeterycensus.com> > . > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Please, everyone... take a look at this web site to see what happens to abandoned cemeteries in Durham. http://endangereddurham.blogspot.com/2007/12/mcmanhandled-when-your-footers-need-to.html Does anyone know where the burial remains were moved to? I need to update the CemeteryCensus web site for this cemetery. http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/durh/cem060.htm ----- Allen Dew voice: 919-471-3548 or 919-528-0161 cell: 919-423-5300 E-mail: mailto:[email protected] Web Pages: <http://cemeterycensus.com> .

It was so good to see so many D-OGS gathered together to wish one another Happy Birthday last night. It was a great turnout. I guess we should be about one hundred and twenty by now in dog years, right? It seems the quiz was of pretty much equal difficulty for genealogists, locals, spouses and anyone who took a try at it. The variety of questions you submitted for the quiz this year was very broad and the subjects were interesting. The clustering of scores in big groups after the first three or four places was indicative of a common knowledge base, and questions that suited the group. Cathy Elias' efforts throughout the year provided a table full of prizes for folks to choose from so no one went home with empty hands. Except the folks who left their cell phone, doggy bag of dinner, notebook, and overcoat of course. I hope everyone finally got reunited with their "stuff". Of course I'm leading up to something, so here it is. We're planning on a quiz again for the 2008 birthday meeting, and I'd like to start receiving your submissions for the quiz just as soon as you think of them. It's good to avoid a last minute scramble, and I'll take your questions as soon as you send them. Wed like to have more "distant D-OGS" participation if at all possible. Just because you're not able to come to the meetings doesn't make you any less a member, in fact this is one way you can actively participate in your society so please plan to add a question or two for us. If you'd like to see the questions from this year's quiz, they're going to be placed on the members' page of the D-OGS web site. Why not take the quiz before you view the answers and see how you would have fared? Thanks for your help. Carol ************************************** Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)

This is a reminder to those of you who regularly attend the Computer Interest Group this month as others and are still thinking "second Saturday", bear in mind that the CH Library changed our meeting time once again so we will be meeting on the 15th of December. We'll wrap up the group goals to be sure we've addressed what everyone wanted to cover this year. We'll try one new technique to jump-start some folks who have a line they have not explored yet, or have come to a halt with. Several heads are usually better than one, so perhaps we can help you move forward a step or two. Bring in the name, dates of interest and any other information you have on your "person of interest" so we can zero in on them. I know it's a busy time of year, but I hope you can make it for at least an hour or two so we don't lose momentum entirely. We've had an unusually tough year to keep to our schedule because of the library's changing our date or location, so let's get one more good meeting accomplished and bring to an end another interesting year in computer genealogy. Carol ************************************** Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)

In a message dated 12/5/2007 3:03:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > http://www.newsobserver.com/news/durham/durham/story/811899.html > Thanks Gwyneth This is interesting, but sad. ************************************** Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)

This is about Durham County birth and death certificates. Gwyneth ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:43 PM -0500 From: "Cherry, Kevin" <[email protected]> To: Librarians Serving Genealogists <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: [Genealib] Deterioration of Vital Records--From Raliegh News and Observer I thought that list members might find this article interesting. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/durham/durham/story/811899.html Kevin Cherry ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- ---------------------------------------------------- Gwyneth Duncan Voice: 919-660-5860 Systems Librarian Fax: 919-684-2855 Perkins Library Email: [email protected] Box 90196 Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0196

It is less than a week to the D-OGS Birthday Party at the Mayflower Restaurant in Hillsborough on December 5 at 6 pm and we need your help with Questions(and Answers) for the Annual Birthday Party Quiz. If you are new to the Annual Birthday Quiz, here are last years questions and answers: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/birthdayquiz2006.html This may give you some ideas for this year's quiz. Please send your questions (and answers) to Carol Boggs: [email protected] This is a chance for members near and far to participate in our celebration. Below is Carol's original plea for your response. For more about the Birthday Party Meeting and future meetings, please view our website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:26 AM Subject: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Upcoming Birthday Party As Paul announced in the recent meeting, we will be holding our birthday party at the Mayflower Restaurant in Hillsborough December 5 (more to follow on details), so it's time to put together the annual quiz that we all participate in as our after dinner "entertainment". I'm inviting everyone to submit a question to be included in the quiz and I'd like to emphasize the fact that this is one of the times of the year that our "distant D-OGS" can participate in the Society. This is a way to say thank you to the locals, even those who have no ancestors in Old Orange County, who serve as Society officers, produce the print materials, do the copying, writing, searching, and reporting of the material that enriches all our genealogy. Questions need not be fancy or complicated, and they should be designed to be answered by the average genealogist, not the experts. (Remember this is supposed to be fun - not the GRE.) It's best to make them easy to score at the party, so consider these types of questions as you start scratching your head: 1. True or false 2. Brief fill in the blank(s) 3. Multiple choice They can address two general topics: subjects pertinent to Old Orange County NC, or subjects likely to be well known by genealogists anywhere, such as forms, terms, standard genealogical tools or materials. They should be reasonable to answer or guess at. Thank you in advance for helping make our birthday party an enjoyable time, and contributing to YOUR genealogical society. Every question truly helps. Tip: the more answerable the questions are, the more likely attendees will be able to win some of the prizes I've seen Cathy Elias gathering over the year. You're really going to like the choice she's going to have for us. OK, now I'll start looking in my mailbox for questions! Carol Boggs [email protected] ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ************************* Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Again, I'll get the handouts in the mail. I can see now why you won't be at the dinner next week. <g> All the best, Cathy In a message dated 11/28/2007 9:48:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Dear Cathy, Thanks for getting back with me. No, I will be unable to attend the dinner. We live in Texas. I will appreciate your sending them. They will be of much use. I volunteer at our local genealogy library and the information will be shared there. My address is: Bobee Boyett 120 Willow Run Lumberton, Texas 77657 Again, thanks so much, Bobee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [NCDOGS] Wake co.program-Tuesday, Nov [email protected] Olivia Raney lib. > Dear Bobee, > I work at the Raney Library, so was able to pick up copies of all the > handouts today. There were none from the speaker, just research guides prepared by > the library staff. Where do you folks live? Are you planning on coming to > the D-OGS dinner next Wednesday in Hillsborough? I'll be bringing the copies > to that event. If you can't be there, give me your mailing address and I'll > send them. > > Cathy Elias > Durham > > > In a message dated 11/27/2007 2:32:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > If possible, I would like to have some hand outs if. We live to far and it > would be out of the question to be able to be there. We both have German > ancestors. > Thanks, > Bobee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:50 PM > Subject: [NCDOGS] Wake co.program-Tuesday, Nov [email protected] Olivia Raney lib. > > > > Hi All, > > > > Is anyone in our area planning to attend: "Researching German Ancestry"?? > > I had hoped to, but bronchitis, cough, etc tells me to stay home. > > So I'd appreciate it if anyone attending would pick up an extra handout, > or > > forward me their notes. > > > > Hoping to hear from you-----------charlotte hyer > > > > > > > > **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's > hottest > > products. > > (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) > > ************************* > > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > > > > **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest > products. > (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ************************* Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)

Dear Cathy, Thanks for getting back with me. No, I will be unable to attend the dinner. We live in Texas. I will appreciate your sending them. They will be of much use. I volunteer at our local genealogy library and the information will be shared there. My address is: Bobee Boyett 120 Willow Run Lumberton, Texas 77657 Again, thanks so much, Bobee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [NCDOGS] Wake co.program-Tuesday, Nov [email protected] Olivia Raney lib. > Dear Bobee, > I work at the Raney Library, so was able to pick up copies of all the > handouts today. There were none from the speaker, just research guides prepared by > the library staff. Where do you folks live? Are you planning on coming to > the D-OGS dinner next Wednesday in Hillsborough? I'll be bringing the copies > to that event. If you can't be there, give me your mailing address and I'll > send them. > > Cathy Elias > Durham > > > In a message dated 11/27/2007 2:32:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > If possible, I would like to have some hand outs if. We live to far and it > would be out of the question to be able to be there. We both have German > ancestors. > Thanks, > Bobee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:50 PM > Subject: [NCDOGS] Wake co.program-Tuesday, Nov [email protected] Olivia Raney lib. > > > > Hi All, > > > > Is anyone in our area planning to attend: "Researching German Ancestry"?? > > I had hoped to, but bronchitis, cough, etc tells me to stay home. > > So I'd appreciate it if anyone attending would pick up an extra handout, > or > > forward me their notes. > > > > Hoping to hear from you-----------charlotte hyer > > > > > > > > **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's > hottest > > products. > > (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) > > ************************* > > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > > > > **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest > products. > (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message