Category: Ancestry Research
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Westward from Bertie to Haywood
Photo: A section of “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” by Emanuel Leutze / As I continue to research my family tree, one question keept coming up: Why did so many of my Bertie County, North Carolina, ancestors load their wagons in the early 1830s and head west to Haywood County, Tennessee? The…
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Lost History: The 1890 Census Records
I am still new to genealogy research and kept noticing a hole in the census records for my Haywood County ancestors in 1890. After a little digging, I learned why. Most of the 1890 federal census population schedules were damaged in a fire at the Commerce Department Building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 1921.…