By Carolyn L Barkley
I can remember giving lectures not that many years ago in which I said something along the lines of “Everything will not be on the Internet, for example, don’t expect to find the census online.� How times have changed! Census data, although easily available on ancestry.com and heritagequest.com, represent a resource that [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
Are you one of the many genealogists who ushered in the New Year with resolutions to be more organized? How successful have you been in keeping your promise to clean up the piles of papers on the floor, and best of all, organize, label, and use those file folders?
I think I [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
I was born in Massachusetts, but have lived in Virginia for almost 40 years. My early history education had stressed the Pilgrims, Plymouth and 1620 almost to the exclusion of Jamestown and 1607. As I became active in the planning for events celebrating the 400th anniversary of the First Landing, I [...]