Wake Wednesday - Major General Calvin Jones, M. D. of Wake Forest

Did you miss the Summer 2024 feature about Major General Calvin Jones, M. D. of Wake Forest in the Wake Genealogy Watch newsletter?

If so, here is your reminder to seek out the feature to correct that mistake! Ed Morris, the former executive director of the Wake Forest Historical Museum shares his vast knowledge on Jones and illustrates why he can truly be called an early Wake County renaissance man. Jones was a soldier, medical man, entrepreneur, educator, politician and founder of a school that would eventually become Wake Forest University. This is not guilding the lilly. There is much more to know. I don't want to spoil Ed's masterful telling of the story, so I will direct you to it with the encouragement to keep a sharp eye. You don't want to miss how Major General Calvin cleverly saved North Carolina from being a battleground state in the War of  1812. He was truly a masterful strategist!

Dr. Calvin Jones  of Wake Forest. Portrait
 photo by Ken Bennett, Wake Forest University

This featured article can be accessed in this issue of the WGW on pages 3-7.

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Latest Newsletter is live now. Wake Genealogy Watch - Spring, 2025, 8.3

The Spring issue (Vol. 8, Issue 3) of our award-winning newsletter, Wake Genealogy Watch, is now available online for reading or download. Visit the WCGS website or click the link here: Wake Genealogy Watch, Spring 2025

Features in this issue include:

• Barbara McGeachy shares recent acquisitions at the NC Archives!

• We share an exciting update about the Wake Cemetery Survey hard copies.

• Enjoy a recap of our most recent WCGS Meetup, the Archive and Library tour.

• Learn how to use a BIRLS file and how to obtain files on your 20th century veteran kin.

• Details of the local beginning genealogy classes taught by Barbara McGeachy this spring.

• Learn how to wring every drop of information out of the index files we find online.

• Read biographical profiles on renowned Wake County Civil War photographers, Esley Hunt and Joshua P. Andrews.

• Explore the use of AI for simple editing tasks to make you more time for your writing efforts.

• A super-sized calendar of events including our own, NGS, NCGS, America250 and more!

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Quick and Easy Ways to Remember Cousinship

Reprinted from Wake Genealogy Watch, newsletter of the Wake County Genealogy Society, Summer 2019, v2.4.

I can figure cousinship fine when I am at my desk with all kinds of handy charts, but never when I am out and about. Here are two easy tips.—CD

Trick 1: Count the number of Greats and add 1.
Shared 4th great grands + 1 = 5th cousins.

Shared 5th great grands + 1 = 6th cousins.

Grand parents + 1 = 1st cousins. (0 grands to add!)

For a another tip see this Family History Daily post.

 

Trick 2:

Draw it out, as Roberta Estes did for her blog post on calculating cousins easily. See Roberta’s post here for more tips.

 

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Wake Genealogy Watch - Fall Edition 2023, v7.1 - Live Now at our website

The Fall 2023 Issue (Vol. 7 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, Fall2023.

 Features included in this issue include:

• Several updates including news about our Homepage, Journal, and a new Board Position – Diversity & Inclusion Officer.
• The Reading Room features a review and link to an amazing family history book written by Brian Griffis. You will want to read The Life and Times of Lucius Griffis (1839 – 1918) to see what Brian accomplished with his strategy of searching way beyond the expected sources for his Wake County ancestor who lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
• Barbara McGeachy shares an important FamilySearch tip for location resources.
• Instructions to access the Upchurch Enrolled Family files online. These files hold reams of Wake County Genealogy content.
• A focus on the history and importance of mills in Wake County, including a link to a fascinating five-part thesis exploring what remains of mill culture in our area.
• Genealogy highlights and links to the Fall 2023 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI),
• North Carolina Maps, a collaborative digitization project that offers online content and inspiration for your research.
• A recent Wakecogen Blog feature on maps that provides a different look at map use and development in our early history.
• Highlights from our experiences with the NGS SLAM Open House in May.
  
  

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WCGS - Wake Genealogy Watch, Fall 2022 - Newsletter now available

The Fall 2022 Issue (Vol.6 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 2022

  Features included in this issue include:

• Meet our new President in Training, Saundra Cropps.
• Multiple Hints to help you get the most from the Wakecogen Homepage.
• Techniques to reunite your “not my family” photos with their proper relatives.
• Explore four easy to master tools to identify your autosomal DNA matches.
• Read about early Jamestown ancestors in the GenealogyBank.com series – Jamestown Who’s Who by Melissa Berry.
• WCGS membership benefits update.
• Upcoming events and more.

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WCGS - Wake Genealogy Watch - Spring 2021 - Newsletter now available

The Spring 2021 Issue (Vol.4 Issue 3) of our award-winning newsletter, Wake Genealogy Watch, is now available online for reading or download. 

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This issue contains the following topics:

•          Read about the role Wake County’s creation played in a tumultuous historical event as we celebrate her 250th year.
•          RootsTech Roundup – Read about and access all the wonderful online content. It is still free and will be for one year.
•         WCGS GenHelp - This summary of one of the sessions shows what types of questions are asked and the range of guidance that is offered.
•          Ted Bainbridge spotlights Cyndi’s List, the invaluable aggregate genealogy site, and offers tips for searching and navigating the site.
•          Esley Hunt was a portrait photographer who worked in Orange and Wake counties from the 1840-60s. He is renowned for his Civil War portraits. Read more about Esley and access a free eBook about him.
•         Cynthia Gage shares the two digital collections pertaining to North Carolina and offers tips to navigate them.
•          Read about a new research venture NC Historical Records Online and possibly collaborate with them.
•         Meet our board members. This time we welcome our new Treasurer and new VP/Communications. We also spotlight a Director and our Membership Chairperson.
•          As always, a packed events calendar and links to so very much online content.

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WCGS Newsletter - Wake Genealogy Watch - Winter 2021 now available

The Winter 2021 Issue (Vol.4 Issue 2) of our award winning newsletter, Wake Genealogy Watch, is now available online for reading or download.

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This issue contains the following topics:

• Wake Treasures Journal search tips – We have over 20 years of content online available for our members to use. These tips will get you started.
• Get details on the GenHelp sessions which return in 2021 to give guidance for your research.
• An overview of the three new Wake Resources webpages that webmaster Cynthia Gage has curated for us.
• Ann Myhre shares her experiences finding cousins in unexpected places.
• Dr. Ted Bainbridge recounts his efforts to explore and verify a family history tradition.
• Meet More of our Board Members – Barbara McGeachy, Carla Stancil, and Linda Hames.
• Unexpected resources that may help enrich your ancestors’ stories and where to find them.
• Carla Stancil shares her families experience with a virtual reunion.
• Try these strategies to expand your surname research and create a list of alternate spellings.

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Wake Genealogy Watch - Winter 2020 Is available at the website now!

Happy New Year, fellow Wake researchers.

TheWinter 2020 Issue (Vol.3 Issue 2)  of our award winning  newsletter Wake Genealogy Watch, is now available online for reading or download. 

This issue contains the following topics:
• Get Acquainted with the new Wake Treasures Journal Team
• Ann Myhre shares some very useful tips for tackling foreign language translations
• Popular tips, technique, and historical context of 2019 from the WCGS Facebook feed
• Ted Bainbridge shares important points to consider when evaluating sources, information, and evidence
• Cyndi Deal explores the workflow and challenges of researching that Native American family lore
• Another very full calendar of events

 As always we welcome your articles, comments, or other items for the newsletter, so please contact Cyndi at newsletter@wakecogen.org if you have something to share.

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