I just received this notice and thought there would be many interested people.  Rebecca Christensen --- On Sat, 12/12/09, Mmaker52 <mmaker52@aol.com> wrote: From: Mmaker52 <mmaker52@aol.com> Subject: [NCBERTIE] New Info Available from our State Archives To: ncbertie-l@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 6:32 AM Received the following message from our NC GEN WEB.  Thought I would share it with you all.  Hope this will be of some interest to some of you Claudia Harrell Williams CC Bertie County I cannot contain my excitement!!!! The NC State Archives announced today that the newspaper digitization project is now available online - http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/newspaper/index.html They have digitized many papers -- from their site, "These materials include papers dating from 1752-1890s from cities like Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1798-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington (1765-1816) - a total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable."