The Fall 2024 Issue (Vol. 8 Issue 1) of our
award-winning newsletter, Wake Genealogy Watch, is now available online for
reading or download. You can visit the WCGS website or access through
this link - Wake Genealogy Watch, Fall 2024
Features in this issue include:
- A welcome
message from our new President – Barbara McGeachy
- Details
for the Sept. 14 WCGS Meet and Greet.
- A
summary and video preview of the new Ancestry ProTools Enhanced Matches
Feature.
- Details
on a project to add deceased local women veterans in the Raleigh National
Cemetery to the national Military Women’s Memorial project, and a call for
volunteers to get our lady vets represented.
- An update
on NC cemetery oversight protection and a new pilot project to help build
the database of lost, abandoned, or historically or culturally cemeteries
thus aiding their protection.
- A WCGS
member inductee into a lineage society based on the service of her free
black ancestor’s service in the Revolutionary War.
- Fall 2024
OLLI Classes of interest to genealogists.
- A look
at some very early North Carolina Tax records imaged and hosted at NC
Digital.
- A
recap of the Wake County Enslaved Persons Project (presented at our July virtual
meeting) with links to the collection and associated projects.
- A guide
to the FamilySearch Full Text Tool with a review of a searched image and
the AI transcript results produced by the feature.
- Another
packed events calendar!
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