Freedmen’s Bureau Records for Family History: Free Program in High Point

IN THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY: FREEDMEN’S BUREAU RECORDS FOR FAMILY HISTORY Monday, 13 April, 6:30 pm 1st Floor Morgan Room, High Point Public Library When most slaves were freed in 1865, the US government set up an agency to assist them. The Freedmen’s Bureau helped with food aid, labor contracts, reunion of divided families, literacy,…

Genealogical Society Presents Author Martha Brown, April 1

This program was originally scheduled  in March but has been rescheduled due to bad weather. The Forsyth County Genealogical Society will meet at  6:30 PM, April 1, 2014 in the Auditorium of the Forsyth County Public Library, 660 W. 5th Street, Winston-Salem, NC.  Social at 6:30, Program at 7:00. The meeting is free and open to the public.…

Obliterating the past…

So we woke up this morning to find the government shutdown beginning. I thought I knew what that meant. "It won't affect me," I said. "Because I only work with the past." Smugness = dumbness, I quickly learned. Here's how. The phone rings. Some guy is interested in finding out if his ancestor served in…

NC and the Civil War, Nov. 6, Forsyth Co. Genealogical Soc. Meeting

The Forsyth County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting in the Auditorium of the Main Forsyth County Library at 660 West 5th Street in Winston-Salem on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012.  Please join us at 6:30 PM for refreshments. The program starts at 7:00 PM. The meeting is free and open to the public.…

Join Us for Civil War 150: A Discussion

Civil War Online Resources: A Public Lecture in Raleigh, Aug. 8

The following press release came out today. Civil War Online Resources Take Center Stage at Free Aug. 8 Talk   RALEIGH -- “The baby toddles about all day only takes two little naps I made her a pair of shoes and she can walk first rate in them she is just gone to sleep…”  A…

Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit at Central Library, Aug. 1- 31, 2011

    The Civil War was the first war widely covered with photography. The Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory exhibit provides images of historic figures, artifacts, and documents that brought the reality of the war from the battlefront to the home front, then and now,” explains Deputy Secretary Dr. Jeffrey Crow of the North Carolina Department of Cultural…

The Press Wars…

This is an ongoing series. If you are new to the series, you might want to begin with the first post on January 13, 2011. To make it easier to navigate the series, I have created a new category called Civil War 150. That category will appear at the top of each post. To go…

The Union Forever…

A series of technical problems have caused a long delay in this series. For that, I apologize. To get caught up, we will be going pretty fast in the next couple of updates. This one will cover from mid-January to the first week of March, 1861. The next one, sometime next week, will bring us…

Lighting the fire…

150 years ago today, South Carolina troops opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Those present had little idea of what that meant. Click below to see the Charleston Post & Courier's coverage of today's events. The Beginning Our series has been delayed by a number of technical and other problems. It will resume…