It's like the kiss of death...

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Permalink Reply by Joel S. Russell on July 10, 2009 at 9:05am

Why?

Permalink Reply by Fredric Z. "Rick" Saunders on July 10, 2009 at 9:47am

I love NC research. From my perspective there seems to be so much more available than for many northern states.

Permalink Reply by Margaretann on July 12, 2009 at 4:17pm

The problem is always figuring out exactly what county they came from in North Carolina and then the boundary lines changed a lot in those early day. Take a common surname and boy what fun it is. I have overcome a couple NC brickwall by reading deeds and wills in the current location as a local record will sometimes mention a probate, will, deed, settlement back in a NC county, which is a great starting place.

Permalink Reply by Evelyn Terrell Taylor on July 24, 2009 at 5:38pm

My problem is that my 3X great grandfather was a full blooded Cherokee Indian but all of those records were destroyed. I can't find anything on my 3X great grandmother who also came out of North Carolina. McClellan (Mack) Carroll was the grandfather and the grandmother was Elizabeth Barom. Their parents didn't approve of their marriage because Elizabeth was white. They moved to Kentucky and then on to Bond County in Illinois which is where my mother was born. If anyone has any information on them I'd be eternally greatful. Also, their daughter, Caroline Carroll, married Henry Smith and have not been able to find anything on him either. He also came out of Kentucky.