This post is part of series on recent family history research I've been working on and some of the methods that family historians and genealogists use. If you'd like to learn more about your own family history but don't know where to start, you can find out more here. In Part I of this story, …
The Woman at the Window PART I
This post is part of series on recent family history research I've been working on and some of the methods that family historians and genealogists use. If you'd like to learn more about your own family history but don't know where to start, you can find out more here. Bellevue Cemetery is situated on the …
Hello from the other side … of summer research
You may have noticed that things have been rather silent on the blog front lately. While not intentional, this silence has mostly been the by-product of a very busy year so far. So many good things are happening, but many of those things have needed lots of attention. After another packed teaching semester in the …
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Into the Archives: tips for your first research trip
On a chilly January afternoon I joined a handful of fellow students in a parking lot on the campus of UNC Wilmington. The late Dr. Bill McCarthy, professor for our senior seminar on the 'Golden Age of Piracy', arrived shortly in a rental minivan and we loaded our bags into the back of the vehicle. …
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Where’d you go, Alexander? Finding death in the archives
TW: suicide I encountered Alexander Duncan in the spring of 2016. Reading through the business correspondence of James Murray, a Scottish merchant who settled in Wilmington, North Carolina in the early 1730s, I found Murray's connection with Duncan, another Scottish merchant in the port town. By the 1760s, James Murray had relocated to Boston where …
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