Presenter: Diane L Richard, MEng & MBA, Mosaic Research and Project Management (MosaicRPM)
Due to extensive record losses, colonial research can be quite challenging. The further back we go, the fewer extant records we find. That said, there are goldmines to be explored. We’ll discuss what records survive and what you will want to pursue when researching this period. Recent digitization efforts (State Archives of North Carolina) and resource access (via the State Library of North Carolina), along with an increasing number of new and unique colonial-era focused projects, give us unparalleled access to the records of this period and opportunities to dig for gold. We’ll leverage the heritage of Joel Lane, whose land became the basis for the NC capital city, Raleigh, and discoveries made about him and his family throughout the talk. A lot of “mining” was done to identify extant relevant records. Besides important colonial-era resources, we’ll discuss research strategies for dealing with commonly repeated names – a challenge when researching 17th-mid-19th century ancestors.
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