The Durham-Orange
Genealogical Society
of North Carolina
A nonprofit organization established in 1989 and dedicated to the research and preservation of family history of Durham and Orange counties, North Carolina
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Address Durham-Orange Genealogical Society
PO Box 4703
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-4703Email: D-OGS Administration
Regular Meetings
1st Wednesday, 7:00 pm
Click here for each month's meeting place and program !!
Usually held at the
Duke Homestead Visitor Center/Tobacco Museum
2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705
Phone: (919) 477-5498
one-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175)
Follow the brown historic site road signs.
A Map! Another Map!Computer Special Interest Group Meeting
2nd Saturday, 9:00 am-noon
Usually held at the Chapel Hill Public Library,
100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
Click Here for each month's meeting place and program !!
The Genealogical Society in central North Carolina
**SPECIAL NOTICES**
Olde Orange County Family History Day
Well, its over and it was a good one! Thanks for attending! Did you miss it? Stay tuned! We are planning another for next year, probably in the Spring of 2009.
Saturday, 10 May 2008 at the Century Center in Carrboro, NC.
Click HERE for details, directions, list of participating organizations, photos from previous Olde Orange County Family History Day events, etc.Surnames of Interest to Our Members
Last Updated: 19 September 2007
This is a public list of the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society Member Surnames provided as a tool to our members to find members that are researching like Surnames.Durham County Library NC Room Family History Books Index
A Listing of the Family History Books in the NC Room, Indexed by Surname and Book Title
Upcoming Meetings
September 2008 Meetings
Wednesday, 3 September 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting
TOPIC: "Tools Your Ancestors Might Have Used."
Speaker: Rob Elias
The program for this month will be presented by D-OGS member, Rob Elias, Past President and Co-Editor of the Trading Path with his wife, Cathy. Rob will describe the evolution of tools over time and the manner in which our colonial ancestors conquered their primitive environment using tools made mostly of wood with small amounts of iron and steel. Examples of some of these tools will be available for inspection by the curious.D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 3 September 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Duke
Homestead Visitor's Center, 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705. Phone: (919) 477-5498
One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175), Follow the brown historic site road signs.
A Map! Another Map!
D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public!
The D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meeting will meet on Saturday morning, 20 September 2008 at 9 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Library downstairs in the small conference room.
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
Please note: Change from 2nd to 3rd Saturday for this month!
Topic: "New Developments in Technology"
Even though the dates have been changed for our meetings recently, the D-OGS Computer Special Interest Group (CIG) continues to meet as regularly as possible. I know this may make it more difficult to follow our topics of discussion, but we will try to pull together everyone's needs and interests and make the September meeting useful to everyone who can attend. We will be discussing new developments in technology, with a special emphasis on what that means for researchers. We'll also emphasize what is out there that is free or cheap so that being current doesn't have to mean you must bend or break your budget. I'd like folks from near and far to send me some of the most interesting things they've discovered lately so we can share them with the group.
Please send in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda.Carol Hubbell Boggs HubbellGen@aol.com
D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all!
August 2008 Meetings
TOPIC: "Show and Tell!"
Speakers: D-OGS Members and Guests
One of the most popular meetings is our August "Show and Tell" when members and guests can tell about some of the genealogical or family history projects that they have been working on recently. This program is always lively and interesting. This is your chance to shine! Come to hear what others have discovered or experienced and select something you would like to contribute. Plan on talking for less than 5 minutes so we can hear from many folks. Start getting your materials together now and practice your presentation to stay within the time allotted for each speaker.D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 6 August 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Duke
Homestead Visitor's Center, 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705. Phone: (919) 477-5498
One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175), Follow the brown historic site road signs.
A Map! Another Map!
D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public!
9 August 2008
at 9 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Library downstairs in the small conference room.
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
The Computer SIG will NOT meet this month.
Please plan to re-join us on 9 September.
Please send in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda.Carol Hubbell Boggs HubbellGen@aol.com
D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all!
July 2008 Meetings
TOPIC: "The Professional Genealogist"
Speaker: Margo BrewerHow to become a Professional Genealogist. Things a professional must do: education, continuing education, elevating your research to professional standards, payment, contracts, etc.
Hiring a Professional Genealogist. How to hire. What to expect if you need to hire a professional genealogist. What you should know beforehand.
Margo Fariss Brewer is a professional genealogist, instructor, lecturer and consultant with several years experience. Margo is a member of D-OGS. For over 20 years, Margo has been documenting her own family history from Virginia to California and many of the states in between. Margo also offers Full and Limited Assistance Research Trips to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in the Fall and Spring. For more information, please visit her Research Trip website: http://www.ann-martrips.com/
D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 2 July 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Duke
Homestead Visitor's Center, 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham, NC 27705. Phone: (919) 477-5498
One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175), Follow the brown historic site road signs.
A Map! Another Map!
D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public!
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
"Computer Genealogy"
There is always so much of interest to discuss in the field of computer genealogy that sometimes it's hard to fit it all into the time we have allotted. Such was the case for the June meeting, so in July we will spend more time answering people's questions about their computer genealogy, and take a second look at the map sites suggested by Diane Richard in her presentation to the D-OGS meeting in June. Even if you can only spend a short time with us, come along and see what's happening, I bet you'll learn something new about your computer genealogy.
Please send in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda.Carol Hubbell Boggs HubbellGen@aol.com
D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all!
June 2008 Meetings
TOPIC: "Exploring North Carolina through Maps from your easy chair."
Speaker: Diane Richard
Diane Richard is a professional genealogist and presently the First Vice President of the Wake County Genealogical Society. She is the sole proprietor of Mosaic Research and Project Management.
ThinkGenealogy has listed Diane L. Richard as the most prolific of the "Top 10 Genealogy and Technology Most Published Authors of 2007!
D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 4 June 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Duke
Homestead Visitor's Center, 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham, NC 27705. Phone: (919) 477-5498
One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175), Follow the brown historic site road signs.
A Map! Another Map!
D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public!
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
"Exploring North Carolina through Maps....."
We will look at some of the map sites Diane Richard mentioned in her most interesting presentation at the June D-OGS meeting. Bring some of your family's early locations and let us see if we can locate the old home place in NC. Everybody's welcome, whether computer lit
We'll look at the web sites you send me between now and then and visit some new favorite web sites from genealogy publications and lists. Please send them well before the meeting if possible so I can put them onto the agenda.
Please send in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda.Carol Hubbell Boggs HubbellGen@aol.com
D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all!
May 2008 Meetings
TOPIC: "Stories of the Common Soldier"
SPEAKER: Kent McCouryKent McCoury holds a B.A. in History from Appalachian State University. He has worked for the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources for almost twenty years. For over 10 years, he has been the assistant site manager at Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham. He has taught at North Carolina State University and has published book reviews for The North Carolina Historical Review.
(This program was originally scheduled for April but there was a mix-up with the presenter.)Bennett Place, the popular name for the farmhouse in Durham, North Carolina,
owned by James and Nancy Bennett (proven Bennitt),
was the site of the largest surrender of troops during the American Civil War, on April 26, 1865.The Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham, NC: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/Sections/hs/bennett/bennett.htm
Bennett Place From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Place
North Carolina Historic Sites: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/Sections/hs/
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: http://www.ncculture.com/
D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 7 May 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Duke
Homestead Visitor's Center, 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham, NC 27705. Phone: (919) 477-5498
One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175), Follow the brown historic site road signs.
A Map! Another Map!D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public!
D-OGS EVENT
Olde Orange County Family History Day
Click on the link above for more informationSaturday 10 May 2008, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, at the Century Hall in the Carrboro Century Center in downtown Carrboro, North Carolina
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
Note Date Change
The May CIG meeting will touch on some new sites we've found to assist with our genealogy, as well as a progress report from everyone who has used some of Google's new features to do the searching for us while we sleep. We'll also discuss a program that includes information about an image right within the file. Now that the TMG Primer is in so many hands, maybe we'll take some time to discuss how it has helped us use TMG if we have some users in attendance.Please send along the new sites you've been finding so we can look at them together. Feel free to join us even if you feel you're not a proficient "techie" with your genealogy, we talk about everything under the sun if it pertains to our research.
Pleasesend in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda.
Carol Hubbell Boggs HubbellGen@aol.com
D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all!
Web Pages of Local Relevance
- The Trading Path Association describes its purpose: to preserve, promote and study remnants of the historic Trading Path of the Southeastern Piedmont. To quote from their website at http://www.tradingpath.org/: "The Trading Path was a transportation corridor defined by river crossings connected to one another by trails. In colonial times it linked the James River colonial settlements to the Catawba and Cherokee towns in the Carolinas and Georgia. It served Indian commerce prior to European colonization, and it served as one of the principle avenues for European penetration of the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States.
- Duke's Digital Scriptorium is developing digitized versions of historical materials from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University and makes them accessible via the Internet. Note from the Webmaster: I quickly peeked at their website and found items as diverse as the 1864 diary of a 16 year old girl during the American Civil War; the papers of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a renowned Confederate spy; digitized Historic American Sheet Music published between 1850 and 1920; the Duke Papyrus Archive with images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt.
- Old West Durham National Historic District is located near Duke University and Ninth Street in Durham, North Carolina. Their web site includes a detailed history of the area, old B&W photos of Erwin Mills, the historic mill village, and the newspaper article about the rediscovery and restoration of Erwin Cotton Mills Cemetery.
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Chapel Hill NC 27515-4703.
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