The table of contents for Twelve Virginia counties, where the western migration began / by John H. Gwathmey is in alpha order by topics not in numerical order. Very different.

You can search the obituary archive at: 
 
http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi

Two of my free reference offers which appear on my website: Comet-Lines.com

More to come

The first is index to Voices from the Field
http://www.comet-lines.com/home/free-references/198-2/

and
Index to Heritage and Homesteads [Granville Co, NC]
http://www.comet-lines.com/home/free-references/heritage-and-homesteads-index/

Heavenly research link. Thanks Internet Archive

BRINGING DEAD LINKS BACK TO LIFE

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So today I started moving items I have in Pocket online to a Pinterest site. Pocket is nice, now that I think about it Zotero would have been an option, too.

BUT there are two major sites to share:
http://www.genealogytools.net/deeds/

and looking for where to look:
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Online_Genealogy_Records_by_Location

These links are active for your viewing pleasure. 

Tomorrow I am off to the Richard H Thornton library to sort files in the North Carolina Room. Other new thoughts. Check the book Lewis of Warner Hall for Davis information.
Current goals. If I spell them out, I have to do them, right? Organize Davis records, look for estate of Thomas Davis' son who died before he did in the court records, 'hoping' he died in Granville County. Organize and extrapolate tax records to see where everyone was before 1860.
Oh yeah, the 1889 tax book for Frederick County, Maryland. I've got the original remember? Bought at a yard sale after it was picked up on the sidewalk having been deaccessioned by the Frederick County, Maryland system as unimportant.

Had to look. I AM in the 23rd edition of Marquis Who's Who of American Women. 2002-2003.

If you're researching vital records the Who's who series lists birth, marriage and special event data. And remember [hopefully] it is supplied by the applicant making it 1st person information.

Color me Happy!. Now available

https://texashistory.unt.edu/

The Texas State Genealogical Society presents its quarterly journal Stirpes, dating from 1961 to 1990, that contains unpublished records and other materials whose purpose is to stimulate and support the research and teaching of genealogy.

Pictures of Davis property 1997. House is off the road several hundred feet. There is a path from NC15 that leads to the cemetery. Continue past the cemetery and you will arrive at the house after passing several outbuildings, including the two-seater outhouse. 

  Front entry between the two houses

 Fireplace in older house; notice low ceiling

Living area in new house which didn't fair as well as older section

 Side view; porch in darker section

 Another side view

Newer section

 Cousin Carol Hall, think it was cold?

 Older section; chimney

 Well

 Cemetery

Walkway into older section

 Cemetery

 Another porch view and you can see it is a 2 story building

 Chimney

Two hole outhouse.

On Dick Eastman's page, freebee that doesn't start until Monday

• Findmypast makes entire collection of 65 million world military records free for eight days
• All UK, Irish, Australian, Canadian and US military records free from 27^th of June to 4^th July , allowing researchers around the world the opportunity to learn more about the military heroes in their family
• Includes free access to 32 million World War 1 records including 4.2 million British Army Service Records, over 5.8 million medal records, over 700,000 death records and over 27,000 Pals battalion records
• Free access to all UK and Irish census records also included, allowing researches to discover what their military ancestors were doing prior to the outbreak of war

Crazy day fighting with TNG. I did get two gedcoms loaded so I now have 3 of 4 family groups available for researching. I just wish I could figure out what is snagging things up.
I also found out that individuals can be volunteers at the NGS Conference next year without paying to attend.  They won't be able to view the entire venue, but they can get to particular lectures they want if they are willing to volunteer to help as monitors!

I've added the 1997 newsletters to the website Comet-Lines.com FRECOGS newsletters. And the Feb issue is complete. I had to start from an original copy because of a filing error.

I wrote the following in 1993:
Several years ago FRECOGs had Ronald BREMER as a speaker.  Among other things, he is editor of Genealogy Digest. I was going through some files and found my notes on records references he discussed.  He broke sources into 2 groups-Bad and Good.  The Bad list first: family tradition, printed family history, DAR lineage books, census, tombstone, death certificate, obituaries, general reference works, family groups sheets, and Adamic lineages.
    I can hear you mumbling, "What else is there?"  The good list:  Judicial court records, property transfer records, probate records, qualified vital records (birth, death, marriage, divorce, sexton records, adoption, founding, orphan court, and bastardy bonds), church records-denominational yearbooks, fraternal societies-Mason, alliances-as in immigrant, life insurance companies, military-adjunct general office and militia lists, and stories in newspapers-but not obituaries.
    Woe to you who use poor references-document your sources.

I am currently working on indexing

Heritage and homesteads : the history and architecture of Granville County, North Carolina.

Author:	Patricia A Esperon; Andrew J Carlson; Marvin A Brown; Granville County Historical Society.

Publisher:	Oxford, N.C. (P.O. Box 1433, Oxford 27565) : Granville Historical Society, 1988.

      New in my world, I got an article written up and sent off to the president of GCGS [Granville County Genealogical Society] relating a ca 1900 letter in a vertical file on the Dorsey family to a article in the Baltimore Sun with the letter writer in the Sun giving information of the descendents of the same family. Unfortunately the author of the article in the Sun was listed with one of those names that they give you the first name and in the last name is just an initial.

I wrote the following in 2004:

In this day and age, information from research can come from many different sources.
    As a paralegal student, I found that my previous experience doing research enhanced my ability to obtain my paralegal certificate.
    Books I have helped compile were bought by the State Law Library in Maryland where formerly  resided.
    This previous research experience deals with family research, and to use a word that makes law librarians shudder-genealogy.
    I hope to change this perception. Those who do family research, for the most part are on the same page as most paralegal research requests.
    Explanations of Bard v Poe, beyond a reasonable doubt vs Preponderance  of evidence and the genealogy standard of evidence can be found explained in several places on the internet.
    This is the standard required by many authorities for publication. Few discussions of research results can match those published with poor documentation...
    Which professions work as certified genealogists? Private investigators, lawyers, teachers, college professors. What kind of records to they access and what sites do they use on the internet? Think big.

    So next time you need a record checked, but don’t know how to access it, ask a family researcher.
    My research does not require that I know the answer, but that I know how to research and find the answer[s].

As found on ResearchBuzz:
Gregory O’Malley has gotten a grant to expand his slave trade database. http://news.ucsc.edu/2016/05/greg-omalley-slavetrade.html“Now with the help of a $220,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project titled Final Passages: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database, O’Malley plans to add his research to the Voyages database. The project will create an interactive, free Web-based database about the slave trade within the Americas and integrate it into the Voyages site.”

I just realized I can put my past newsletters  that I published 1993+ online.
Here they are. My only intent is to share the information.
If they are available elsewhere let me know.
From http://www.comet-lines.com website.

I edited the post from 15 April; mistakes fixed! 
I've added a new project; damn. I'm writing an index to the book Voices From the Field by Eddie L Smith and Ben Patrick and should have it done within the week. The book is about families moved from Camp Butner.
How long it will take will depend on my secretary staying off the keyboard.

Here we are, April 2016 and I haven't written in a long time.
I have now linked a webpage http://www.comet-lines.com to my blog; the webpage includes a list of the books I had published with Edie Eader on Frederick County, Maryland records. Next will be to figure out how to get payments, I'm thinking PayPal, and get the sales here and not through Amazon.

I now also have a subscription to TNG and hope to soon attach family research groups to the page.
And now for more education about using the website though WordPress.

The Estate records project for Granville County, thank you, Heritage Books, was completed and I am now working on Land and Property records project for Granville County from the same transcriber.