Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Wake Genealogy Watch - Fall Edition 2024, v8.1 - Live Now at our website

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!

Photo Note: If you choose to read a printed version of this newsletter, some of the photos will be difficult to view due to size constraints. Please refer to the online edition where you can enlarge the photos to accommodate better viewing. 

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