Reply #1: Some free tools [View All]

[carolinayellowdog]

Dear Bertha,

Warning: this is an incurable addiction so best to stop now if you don't want to get hooked. Even though ancestry.com is expensive, one of the best tools is free, the ancestry world tree aka WorldConnect. It is a huge database of user-contributed genealogies, accessible either through rootsweb or ancestry. Here's a link:

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/

Also the LDS church has a very useful site:

http://familysearch.org

Some fascinating facts I've learned: 2 of my gg grandfathers and 1 ggg grandfather fought in the 1st NC Infantry (USA) in the Civil War, as did most of their brothers and uncles of military age. Northeast NC was a hotbed of Union sympathizers for various reasons.

Happy hunting,

CYD