Folks, I have extracted data from the 1850 and 1860 censuses on the Free Persons of Color in Hyde County and posted this info in the new African American section of the Hyde Home Page. The new pages are: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/FREE1850.HTM http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/FREE1860.HTM Thanks to Donny and Sandy Carawan for allowing me to use their published 1850 Hyde Co., NC Census and to Sarah Hutcheson for the use of the transcription of the 1860 Census. Previously posted has been data on the Free Persons of Color found in Hyde Co. Apprenticeship Bonds at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/APPBOND.HTM Thanks to R.S. Spencer, Jr. who transcribed the Apprentice Bonds of Hyde County and published them in four issues of the High Tides (Spring & Fall of 1991 & 1992). Also, thanks to Snady Carawan for the 1866 Cohabitation Records which she submitted and were posted online at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/COHABIT.HTM Folks, any data or records dealing with Native Americans owill be most welcome for our new section. Anyone having information on the early visits to the villages of Pomeioc and Aquascogoc, John White's drawings, the Mattamuskeet Indians and their reservation, the archeaological digs in Hyde County, or any other information dealing with Hyde's Native Americans, please let me know. Likewise, anyone with Slave information from wills, estate records, deeds or other records, please submit them to me. Please share your research with others. Thanks, John

Folks, I have just added a photo of Mr. Leslie O'Neal. To view this go to: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmack/photos/onealles.htm If some of you out there have found photos in your old shoeboxes or cookie tins of persons that you're pretty sure had Hyde County ties but you just can't identify them would you mind sharing those with us? We have set up a site for unidentified photographs but so far no submissions have been made. You can scan the photo directly to me or make a xerox copy of the picture and mail it to me at: Kay M. Sheppard; 1140-A Williamson Rd.; Goodlettsville, TN 37072. Thanks! Kay Lynn

Folks, I have just added a 1949 newspaper article on the flooding in Hyde County. The title of it is "When the Rains Came" and has 5 photos included. To view this article go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/ARTICLE1.HTM Remember these articles are in chronological order so you will have to scroll down about midway until you get to the 1949 section. I know some of you are going to enjoy this article because it has photos of people that you will recognize. Kay Lynn in WET Tennessee--Hallelujah!!

Folks, I have just posted an obituary for Bryan Talley Rhodes and a new Harris query. You can view these at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/OBITSR.HTM http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDEQUE5.HTM OR go to the What's new page and click the appropriate link. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/WHATSNEW.HTM

Folks, Below are a few of the free databases appearing this week on Ancestry.com. While Ancestry.com is a for pay web site, each week they present a number of free databases open to non-subscribers for two weeks. John ============================================================ Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com/ For the week ending 4 November 2000 ============================================================ WHAT'S NEW AT ANCESTRY.COM ============================================================ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED DATABASES California Death Index, 1940-97 http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5180.htm Kentucky 1910 Miracode Index http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5185.htm Alabama Death Index, 1908-59 http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5188.htm Oregon Marriage Index, 1906-20 http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5193.htm ____________________________________________________________ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED MAPS Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862-64 http://www.ancestry.com/rd/map.asp?ImageID=367 ============================================================

Folks, I've just added two new newspaper articles, one with a photo, to our web page. You can view these two articles at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/ARTICL12.HTM Scroll to the bottom of the page. They will be the last 2 articles entered. I've also put up a new photograph of Sallie Mary Gibbs and her husband, Albert Cartwright Credle. To view this photo with extra information go to: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmack/photos/gibscred.htm I hope each and each and every one of you are having a wonderful week-end. Kay Lynn

In a message dated 10/29/2000 11:48:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, genie12@bellsouth.net writes: << Subj: [NCHYDE] The Keepers Date: 10/29/2000 11:48:06 AM Eastern Standard Time From: genie12@bellsouth.net (Kay M. Sheppard) To: NCHYDE-L@rootsweb.com Folks, I just had to share this with all of you. This comes from the host of the Stewart Co., TN web page and is it food for thought for all of us. Kay Lynn --------------------------------------------------------------- "The Keepers" from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series: >>

Folks, I've just added three more obituaries compliments of Claud Carawan, Jr. They are our first postings for the month of November--Blanche W. Jarvis, Mattie Gibbs Carawan and Samuel Benson Watson. To view these go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/WHATSNEW.HTM Kay Lynn--having a wonderful time with her newly retired husband but whose Mama says "it ain't all it's cracked up to be"! :)

I work at a Family History Center besides having Hyde County family. Some of the records may have been extracted but definitely not all. We do have film that can be ordered from the Salt Lake Library or that you can use at the main Library if you are out there. Also, I've done a number of submissions to the IGI for my Hyde family lines which include Swindells, Cutrells, Cuthrells, Farrows, Tunnells, and a few others. -----Original Message----- From: nduffy [mailto:nduffy@patch.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 7:06 PM To: NCHYDE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NCHYDE] NC Marriages I may have been the last person to know this but on another NC mail list someone said that the LDS website actually had abstracts of all the NC marriage bonds records. I was told that they had been abstracted and put in their IGI index. The LDS web site is at: http://www.familysearch.com/ Nola nduffy@patch.net http://www.patch.net

It's true the LDS has abstracted the marriages and are in the IGI index. If you look at a marriage on the site click on the source and you will be availabe to determine if in fact the data came the NC State Marriage Bond Index. They also have the microfiche that you can order thru the local family history center. There is more info on the fiche (bondsman and witness). And of course after i did that, Ancestry.com put them on their site as well. Their site is nice in the fact that you can search for anyone listed on the bond not just the bride/groom. However, as most already know, Ancestry.com is a pay site as well. Good Luck! Jeanne Abrams Polries

John & list, I personally am not against this person. His fee is $1.00 and if you order from NC Archives you will pay more. By the time he buys the envelopes, buys the stamps, looks up the data, copies it, addresses the envelopes, puts the stamps on them and stuffs them, he sure isn't making much! Thats not counting the time he has answering emails. I think many researchers would welcome his help at such a small fee. True, this data may be offered free at some places, but sometimes we just don't have the time to track these things down. I think his service is a nice offer. Just my opinion though, for what its worth! Terria Baynor jmack@wgserver.carolina.net wrote: > Folks, > > Regarding the recent email about marriage record lookups, please bear in mind > that this offer is a commercial (information for a fee) service. Neither > RootsWeb nor the USGW sanctions nor supports any for-pay services on these > for-free pages or lists. There is, in fact a FREE search through NC marriages > at: http://tn-3.rootsweb.com/~marce/bmd/search.cgi > Also, these marriage records are also available via microfiche or film > through LDS Family History Centers, or can be ordered via NC Archives. > > I try to keep messages of this type from the list, but one or two are > bound to get through every now and then. This person subscribed to > every county mailing list in North Carolina and is now being banned from > most lists. Please beware of such offers. > > John

I may have been the last person to know this but on another NC mail list someone said that the LDS website actually had abstracts of all the NC marriage bonds records. I was told that they had been abstracted and put in their IGI index. The LDS web site is at: http://www.familysearch.com/ Nola nduffy@patch.net http://www.patch.net

Folks, Regarding the recent email about marriage record lookups, please bear in mind that this offer is a commercial (information for a fee) service. Neither RootsWeb nor the USGW sanctions nor supports any for-pay services on these for-free pages or lists. There is, in fact a FREE search through NC marriages at: http://tn-3.rootsweb.com/~marce/bmd/search.cgi Also, these marriage records are also available via microfiche or film through LDS Family History Centers, or can be ordered via NC Archives. I try to keep messages of this type from the list, but one or two are bound to get through every now and then. This person subscribed to every county mailing list in North Carolina and is now being banned from most lists. Please beware of such offers. John

Folks, I have just updated the Table of Contents for High Tides Fall 1999 and also Spring and Fall 2000. If you love to read old newspapers you're going to love the Fall 2000 issue which has excerpts from the Washington Progress 1898 & 1899. There is also an alphabetical listing of Colonial Court Records - Estate Papers (1665-1775) for those of you who searching for older ancestors in various NC & Virginia counties. This Fall issue is a MUST!! You can view this TOC at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HITIDE.HTM Happy Halloween! Kay Lynn - whose grandchildren are due here any minute now for their sack of candy

Folks, John has just added two new categories to our home page recently. One is the Native American page which is not yet online but is being worked on at this moment. The other is the African-American page which already has some new items installed including the U.S. Colored Troops which are being added to daily. I added two more Carawan obituaries this evening compliments of Claud W. Carawan, Jr. of Pamlico County. You can view all of these new additions by going to the What's New page and clicking on the link of your choice. Remember--the obits are in alphabetical order so you will have to scroll down to get to the new additions. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/WHATSNEW.HTM The new "High Tides" was in my mailbox today. For those of you who subscribe to this publication--you're going to LOVE it. For those of you who don't--what are you waiting for? :) A big THANKS to all of you editors and contributors of this fine magazine!! To subscribe to "High Tides" or to get back issues of the publications go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HCHGSPUB.HTM Kay Lynn

-- I have created a web page for Marriage Bond Index of NC 1741-1868 <A HREF="http://marriagebondofnc.homestead.com/Home.html">marriagebondofNC </A> http://marriagebondofnc.homestead.com/Home.html This page is not complete and will not be complete for several months. There are over 8,000 Bride and 8,000 Groom microfilm pages that list all marriage bonds for all counties of NC. I will add new surnames weekly so please don't get discouraged if you do not see the surname you are looking for. I have discovered that once you obtain the Index page that you are looking for it is easier to contact the NC Archives and get a copy of the original Marriage Bond. If you would like a specific Surname added to the page you may send me an e-mail and I will put that name on my list to add ASAP. All I ask is that you send one e-mail per Surname. You may send as many Surnames as you like, but please do so separately so that I may easily alphabetize my list that I take with me. In the Subject area put MB of NC (this will get my attention) In the body of the e-mail type the surname you would like added in ALL CAPS. Best of Luck to you all in your search for your ancestors. J. Altenhoff

Folks, I just had to share this with all of you. This comes from the host of the Stewart Co., TN web page and is it food for thought for all of us. Kay Lynn - ------------------------------------------------------------- "The Keepers" from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series: Two gone in less than a month, two remaining, and I the only member of the next generation. I look at the five that people the generation following my own, young and vibrant, yet always so faithful to follow my bidding in looking after the elders. There is so much I want them to have, to know, to be. None of the five bear the family name as I am the last of it, some are one generation removed from it, some two. None remember the home place or the family that is leaving us in their youthful years. And so "being the keeper of memories", I wonder how to bring closure to a family line, how to make this youth understand who they are, from whence they have come. It is the reason I write the stories, the reason Sunday Afternoon Rocking was truly born. And there is more I want them to know… I wish they could for one moment in time, read my stories of the home place and feel it as it really was. I wish they could come crunching through the snow tucked around a simple country farmhouse and feel the gust of warm air from a fireplace as they swung open the door. I wish they could hear laughter of the aunts in the kitchen, smell the scents wafting from an old iron stove, and hear Pa stomping the snow from his boots as he carried in a fragrant cedar to be set up as a Christmas tree. I wish they could feel the cold floor on their bare feet and know how comforting it felt to sink into a deep feather bed, pull a grandmother's quilts around tightly and watch as Pa stoked the old pot belly for the night. I wish they could see the beauty in old worn things, sit at a huge farm table lit by a kerosene lantern and savor food that was only there by the fruits of one's labors. I wish they could know what it was to sit on a long front porch and listen to the old timers tell of the times of those they considered old timers. I wish they could climb the tiny cramped stairs to an attic and pore over the photographs of ancestors of a hundred years ago and more. I wish they could see and smell and hear all that I once did, and still do in memory. But more than that, I want them to know… Who our family is, was. I want them to hear the family quibbling over "who paid the last odd penny" of a flower bill when the family had sent those. Those quibbles were my first understanding of how deeply honest the family was. I want them to see four aunts each and every birthday, each and every holiday distributing flowers to the family graves. That sight was what taught me a family honored the past. I want them to see the clippings of presidents my grandfather pasted to his kitchen walls. That tribute was my first understanding of how deeply patriotic the family was. I want them to realize that for over eighty years, until the last known cousin had dropped out of sight or passed away, the family kept in touch with a branch that moved out west early in the last century. Family ties were not easily let go of or forgotten. I want them to hear an aunt saying "Jobs are hard to come by, better hang on", another saying, "Have a little pride in yourself", a grandfather saying "Keep your wagon in the clear", and my father saying "Honesty is the best policy". Those adages have haunted me all of my life, and more than a few times made a decision easier to make…I want these for our youth. We were not a wealthy family, not a well-educated family. The family lived frugally and simply, often more simply than even necessary. It was not a family that adapted much to change, or took up with the latest fads. It was a family that prided itself on a work ethic, practicality and simplicity. In short, it was representative of the many many farm families that were the "salt of the earth" and the strength of a nation. Pa always said his family was "tough as pine knots", and I figure they were, and not much different from the many families that peopled this nation early in the last century and seeded the generations to follow. Those of us who are blessed with the memories of those who came before, those of us who are the "keepers", have a tremendous responsibility. Our youth does not know of the "salt" or the "strength" they spring from unless we tell them, and in doing so, perhaps it will pass on, and keep our families "tough" as the proverbial pine knots, our nation strong as an ancient tree unbending in the winds. ---------------------- (Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be shared...simply share as written without alterations...and in entirety. Thanks, Jan)

Folks, I have posted data online for Free Persons of Color from the 1830 and 1840 Hyde County Censuses. These can be viewed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/FREE1830.HTM and http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/FREE1840.HTM John - ----------------------------------------------------

Folks, Claud W. Carawan, Jr. has just shared 3 obituaries with us. They are: David L. Carawan who died in 1943 Margaret Carawan who died in 1996 Henry Tuten who died in 1985 You can view all of these obits by going to our What's New page and clicking on the link. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/WHATSNEW.HTM Kay Lynn

Hi Kay, how are you...I hope all is well. From your message today and information that I have come across while researching my Hyde co. roots, it appears that there may have been at some time, a connection between NC and TN. If this is true, was this a result of a migration or what. Any help would be appreciated Thanks Paulette > ---------- > From: > NCHYDE-D-request@rootsweb.com[SMTP:NCHYDE-D-request@rootsweb.com] > Reply To: NCHYDE-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:00 AM > To: NCHYDE-D@rootsweb.com > Subject: NCHYDE-D Digest V00 #108 > > <<Message: Microsoft Exchange Message>><<Message: Microsoft Exchange > Message>> > >