The Durham-Orange
Genealogical Society
of North Carolina
A nonprofit organization established in 1989 and dedicated to the researchand preservation of family history of Durham and Orange counties, NorthCarolina
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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!
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The Genealogical Society in central North Carolina
**SPECIAL NOTICES**
Last Updated: 5 December 2008
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 February 2010 Meetings
Wednesday, 3 February 2010 -- D-OGS Meeting
TOPIC: Tour of the new Orange County Public Library
SPEAKER: Lucinda Munger, Orange County Library Director
The program will be presented by Lucinda Munger, Orange County Library Director. The program will be a grand tour of the new library facility. Come join us for this inside look at all the new things (and some old things) that the new library building has to offer. The old NC Room collection from the old library on Tryon Street has been relocated to the 2nd floor of the new building. Come see where those research materials are now housed.LOCATION: Orange County Public Library
Address: 137 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC
Time: 7 pm
The D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meeting
The D-OGS Computer Interest Group will meet on Saturday morning, 13 February 2010 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon in the downstairs conference room of the Chapel Hill Public Library.
LOCATION: Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
Our featured speaker will be the CHPL reference librarian Luba Sawczyn, who will discuss the online tools available to us courtesy of the library through our home computers, such as NCLive and Heritage Quest. She will also answer any questions you may have, so give some thought to what you have always wanted to ask an expert about online research and join us then.
We will continue to talk about the format for the CIG meetings, and will have the calendar available to fill in topics for each month of the coming year. If there is a particular topic you would like to bring to us in the upcoming months, we would be more than happy for you to tell us about it. The two parameters are genealogy and technology; it’s not too hard to find something there, is it?D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all!
January 2010 Meetings
TOPIC: "Genealogical Datamining"
SPEAKER: Ben Franklin
The program will be presented by Ben Franklin. The program topic is “Genealogical Datamining”. Ben has almost as much experience as a database professional as he has as a genealogist. He will demonstrate an approach that will allow you to apply datamining techniques to your genealogical research efforts, simplify collaboration with others and reduce the time it takes to achieve quality results. He applied these techniques to a recent Orange County research project to write the first draft of a 150 page genealogy book entitled: "Families of Saint Mary’s Episcopal Chapel, Orange County, North Carolina," and has spawned several other projects, including the transcription of almost 200 Orange County Wills. Note: The Orange County Will Transcription project is a work in progress and can be accessed online at the following address: http://www.franklindataconsulting.com/OrangeCountyWills.Transcriptions are uploaded as they are completed from the 180+ hard and soft copies. Copies of this volume will be available for viewing at the D-OGS meeting.
Ben Franklin has been performing family history research for about 30 years. He is the former director of the Durham Family History Center, teaches Family History at Duke University through the Osher Lifetime Learning Institute, is the editor of Franklin Family Researchers United (a surname-based family history newsletter) and has been involved in a large variety of family history-related projects.LOCATION: Duke Homestead Visitor Center
Address: 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705
Phone: (919) 477-5498
Time: 7 pm
Directions: One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175); Follow the brown historic site road signs.
Map: Map to Visitor's Center
The D-OGS Computer Interest Group will meet on Saturday morning, 9 January 2010 at 9 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Library downstairs in the large conference room.
LOCATION: Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
We want everyone to feel free to attend, and bring their questions, problems, and examples of tips and techniques they have found to share with the group. We will discuss DropBox, recently mentioned by Dick Eastman and suggested by Beverly Cato for discussion. The group will make some decisions about how the CIG will continue in the future if there is interest in its happening. All ideas and suggestions are welcome.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.
D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all!
December 2009 Meetings
The next general meeting of the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society (D-OGS) will be held on Wednesday evening, 2 December 2009 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Golden Corral NC55, just south of the intersection of NC54 and NC55. Address: 5006 NC Highway 55, Durham, NC 27713, (919) 544-2275 Map: http://tinyurl.com/6bk38j. There is a Senior Discount for those 60+.
TOPIC: "D-OGS Annual Birthday Party!"
This is not a regular meeting. There will be no speaker or fixed program. This is our annual "birthday party" so there should be some festivities for everyone to enjoy. Come and enjoy the fellowship.
Please RSVP if you are planning on attending to richard_ellington@unc.edu. We need to give the restaurant an approximate count. When you arrive, pay for your meal and proceed to the right to their meeting/party room. This is a good time to bring your spouse so that you can introduce them to all those people that you have mentioned during the last year - yes, we plan on having name tags.
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
Topic:"My Native American Cousins Are On Footnote!"No kidding!! To illustrate that almost everything comes across your path when you utilize some of the genealogy search engines and other digital and electronic tools available to us these days we'll look at some of them a bit more closely. And did you hear that microfilms may be coming back? Just as we're learning that CDs won't last as long as our Polaroid photos did, we come to another twist in the road. Come to the CIG and let's talk about what these changes mean to us. We will also discuss the items that were on the agenda for the November meeting that was canceled. Please send me those URLs for emerging tools and events.
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!
October 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: "“Like a Bear with his stern in a corner”"SPEAKER: Stewart Dunaway
The program will be presented by D-OGS member Stewart Dunaway. Stewart’s program will be a talk on a new book – “Like a Bear with his stern in a corner” – that he has co-written with Jeffery G. Bright, past President of the Alamance Battleground Chapter (NCSSAR). Jeffrey Bright spoke to D-OGS earlier this year about the Battle at Guilford Courthouse.
This book documents the Revolutionary War in Orange County. Books will be available after the talk. This new book documents a part of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution immediately after the Race to the Dan and leading up to the Battle at Guilford Courthouse. The period between February and March 1781 was an important time for North Carolina as well as America as a whole. Patriot forces continued to skirmish with British Gen. Cornwallis. Although none of these events were paramount or decisive, they illustrated the fortitude of the American Spirit. This strong resolve sent a clear message to the British that the Patriots would rather fight than remain loyal to the King. Read about Hart’s Mill, Pyle’s Defeat, Clapp’s Mill and Weitzel’s Mill. Learn what occurred, the issues and impacts surrounding each of these unique events. The title of this book comes from a letter written by Colonel Otho Williams to General Greene describing Cornwallis’ tactics during this time period, detailing one of the many aspects that are fully documented in this book.LOCATION: in the meeting room at the Orange County Public Library on 300 W. Tryon Street in Hillsborough, NC at 7 pm
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D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public!
10 October 2009 at 9 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Library downstairs in the large conference room (**Note change of room**).
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!
Topic:" TBA"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!
September 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: "The Culture of Southern Folk Death"SPEAKER: John W. Clauser, Jr.
The program will be presented by John W. Clauser, Jr. and his topic will center on the attributes of the Southern Folk Cemetery location, types of markers, and the culture of southern folk death. Mr.Clauser has spoken to D-OGS before, when he was state archaeologist with the Office of StateArchaeology in the Department of Cultural Resources. He is currently Principal Of GraveConcerns, Inc., a private consulting firm specializing in cemetery recording and preservation. Thecompany has been involved in numerous cemetery projects involving recording, moving,and evaluating and developing preservation plans and restoration of cemeteries. It also offers a machinery operation service for archaeologists.
LOCATION: the Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center on 2551 Homestead Road in Chapel Hill at 7 pm
From Durham:
Take 15-501 to I-40 West.
Exit onto I-40 West
Take the next exit "Chapel Hill," also called new HWY 86.
At the end of the ramp, turn Left onto Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (Historic Airport Road)
Go to the 5th stoplight (1.4 miles), turn Right onto Homestead Road.
Count to 15. Seymour Center will be on your left, followed by the entrance.
From Hillsborough and I-40 Intersection:
Take I-40 East.
Take Exit # 266 and at the end of the ramp, turn Right at the stoplight onto Martin LutherKing Jr. Blvd. (Historic Airport Road)
Go to the 5th stoplight (1.4 miles), turn Right onto Homestead Road.
Count to 15. Seymour Center will be on your left, followed by the entrance.
D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public!
12 September 2009 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!
Topic:" The Route 66 of Family Research: bridging the gap between distance and generations"The D-OGS Computer Interest Group willfeature a talk by the new webmaster to D-OGS, Ginger Smith. She has an interest in cutting edgetools and techniques for the genealogist with access to the Internet. Web pages are great, but theyare not interactive; now genealogists can participate in social networking sites, blogs, and onlineclasses as well as maps that track our ancestors across the globe. If you've seen something of interest online recently, send the URL ahead of time so it can go on 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!
August 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: Annual "Show and Tell"SPEAKER: D-OGS members
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 thatthey have been working on recently. This program is always lively andinteresting. This is your chance to shine!
Come to hear what others have discovered or experienced and select something your would like to contribute. Plan on talking for less than 5 minutes so we can hear from many folks.
LOCATION: Duke Homestead Visitor Center in Durham at 7 pm
This D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 5 Augustl 2009 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!
8 August 2009 at 9 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Library downstairs in the large conference room.
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC Map!We will continue to discuss applications for genealogy as well as new techical developments for working with the Internet. Many new ideas and developments are great, saving lots of time and energy, and providing accuracy and security. However, some new ideas flame like a rocket, and then fizzle, sometimes taking our hard-won data with them. It pays to think ahead, back up, and stay alert and informed.
We will discuss problems with our computers or applications and work together toward finding answers, solutions, or work-arounds. Come along and bring your questions and suggestions.
As usual we will discuss new developments in genealogy research that address a variety of ways that electronics, online, and digital tools can help us do our work. If you've seen something of interest online recently, send the URL ahead of time so it can go on 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!
July 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: The North Carolina Maps ProjectSPEAKER: Nicholas Graham, Librarian with North CarolinaDigital Library and Archives
North Carolina Maps is a comprehensive, online collection of historic maps of North Carolina, providing users an unprecedented level of access to these important research materials. He'll be speaking about finding old North Carolina maps, using them in your research. He will demonstrate some of the ways that we can apply new technology to old maps.
Nicholas Graham has worked in special collections libraries and archives for over then years, most recently at the North Carolina Collecion at UNC, and at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.
This D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 1 July 2009 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!
11 July 2009 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!
Topic:"Program topic TBA"Brief description of this month's topic for discussion.
As usual we will discuss new developments in genealogy research that address a variety of ways that electronics, online, and digital tools can help us do our work. If you've seen something of interest online recently, send the URL ahead of time so it can go on 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!
June 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: Mapping the Land Grants of Wake CountySPEAKER: Jim Jones
This presentation will ......
Kevin Smith is the Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke University, where he works out of the main University library and is available as a resource to the University faculty, staff, administration and students for advice on a wide variety of copyright, publishing and licensing issues. Kevin began his academic career with graduate studies in theology at Yale University and the University of Chicago, and then decided to move into library work. His strong interest in copyright law began in library school and persisted throughout his work in both theological and liberal arts college libraries. He received a law degree while serving as the director of the library at Defiance College in Ohio and moved to Duke shortly thereafter.
Further description and background information about Jim Jones including any link to relevant web sites..... (http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/) that discusses copyright and publication in academia and he is a frequent speaker on those topics.
This D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 3 June 2009 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!
13 June 2009 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!
Topic:"Topic TBA"We will continue the topic as we discussed at the last meeting, preparing for the National Genealogical Society conference in Raleigh next month. No matter whether you go for one day or the entire conference, there are many things you can do to prepare yourself to get more out of the time you do spend there.
As usual we will discuss new developments in genealogy research that address a variety of ways that electronics, online, and digital tools can help us do our work. If you've seen something of interest online recently, send the URL ahead of time so it can go on 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 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: The NGS Conference in Raleigh, 13 – 16 May 2009
A Panel Discussion led by Rob & Cathy Elias.
This D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 6 May 2009 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 May 2009 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!
Topic: "To Be Announced"
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!
April 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: Copyright and rightful copying: a balanced approach to research and the law.SPEAKER: Kevin L. Smith, J.D, Scholarly Communications Officer, Perkins Library, Duke University
This presentation will look at those elements of U.S. copyright law that are especially relevant for genealogical researchers. Guidance will be offered about appropriate research methods, sharing amongst peers and publication issues, including preparing websites.
Kevin Smith is the Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke University, where he works out of the main University library and is available as a resource to the University faculty, staff, administration and students for advice on a wide variety of copyright, publishing and licensing issues. Kevin began his academic career with graduate studies in theology at Yale University and the University of Chicago, and then decided to move into library work. His strong interest in copyright law began in library school and persisted throughout his work in both theological and liberal arts college libraries. He received a law degree while serving as the director of the library at Defiance College in Ohio and moved to Duke shortly thereafter.
Kevin serves on the faculty of the Association of Research Libraries’ Institute on Scholarly Communications and on the American Library Association’s Committee on Legislation Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. He maintains a highly-regarded web log on scholarly communications (http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/) that discusses copyright and publication in academia and he is a frequent speaker on those topics.
This D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 1 April 2009 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!
11 April 2009 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!
Topic:"The National Genealogical Society Conference in Raleigh"We will continue the topic as we discussed at the last meeting, preparing for the National Genealogical Society conference in Raleigh next month. No matter whether you go for one day or the entire conference, there are many things you can do to prepare yourself to get more out of the time you do spend there.
As usual we will discuss new developments in genealogy research that address a variety of ways that electronics, online, and digital tools can help us do our work. If you've seen something of interest online recently, send the URL ahead of time so it can go on 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!
March 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, March 15, 1781SPEAKER: Joshua Howard, Research Historian, Office of Archives and History.
A discussion of the work the speaker and his colleague have recently published on the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The role of the Orange County militia will also be included.
Joshua Howard, Research Historian, Office of Archives and History. Joshua has a bachelor’s degree in history from Appalachian State, and a Masters from East Carolina University in Maritime History.
The book, Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, March 15, 1781, is available locally for $30. It is available at Amazon for $19.80: http://tinyurl.com/bpxwxw
North Carolina Office of Archives and History: http://www.history.ncdcr.gov/
This D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 4 March 2009 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!
14 March 2009 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!We will be discussing how you can take advantage of your best buddy, your digital camera, when you travel to your hometown this summer, or to the archives or local library where all the information about your folks is located. These little jewels are not just for snapshots any more, although that's a good enough reason when you bump into some new family members you didn't know about until your trip. The same applies to the NGS conference that we're going to be attending soon. You neverknow who you're going to meet there, but you'll surely meet someone you want to remember. Take a picture!
Can't find a place at the printer in the library? Want to go to lunch and don't want to lose your place in that big log book? You only have ten minutes left in the cemetery, what do you need to know to get that important headstone photo that will make the difference in your research? You've got the index up on the library computer and it goes on for ten pages, but the printers are all busy and your time is limited, what to do so you can get on with your research? Perhaps someone nameda street after your ancestor but spelled it wrong on the sign, wouldn't that be a nice item of interest in your next family booklet or web page?
We can do so much more now than ever before, thanks to our pocket sized digital cameras, they are real unsung heroes. What are your favorite web sites for the basics, or even the advanced techniques for using and enjoying them? Please send them along so we can get a broad look at all the possibilities for digital 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!
February 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: For No God, but for Country:
Understanding the Civil War Enlistment of the North Carolina Grays.SPEAKER: Ernest Dollar, Director of the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill
In May 1861, a month after the start of the Civil War, ninety-two young men enlisted to fight for the new Southern Confederacy. Historians of the conflict are eager to understand when men fought, but examining the first motivated volunteers highlights the causes that drew men to war. Comparing the backgrounds and the lives of these men creates a portrait that reveals they were rebelling against more than North and became afraid they would loose all they had fought hard to achieve.Recounting their stories, recreates the world of Orange, Wake, and Chatham Counties as they stood on the brink of war.
Ernest Dollar is a Durham native who received his a B.A. in History and B.F.A. in Design from University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1993. Since then he has worked at several historic sites in North and South Carolina including Middleton Place National Historic Landmark, North Carolina Museum of History, and the Orange County Historical Museum. Currently, he serves as the Director of the Preservation Societyof Chapel Hill. In 2008, Ernest published his first book as part of the Images of America series on the town of Morrisville and will be teaching a class as part of Duke's OLLI program on the Civil War in the Triangle.
Preservation Society of Chapel Hill: http://www.chapelhillpreservation.com/
This D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 4 February 2009 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!
14 February 2009 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!
Topic: "Blogs, Clogs and Slogs"Always something new, and usually pretty silly sounding. How to keep up with all the new terms without carrying a glossary or going to Google and wasting valuable research time? Just when we were beginning to learn about Wikis, here comes another challenge to our patience. We certainly know what a slog is - it's what's happening as we grind through a couple of microfilms that were shot in poor conditions without finding the fellow we were looking for. Clogs are what you shouldn't wearin cemeteries, they're too wobbly and the folks that built those places didn't seem to pay much attention to a level surface. Especially in front of the stones. Blogs now are quite another thing. They're sort of amorphous, everyone's got one it seems, and some of them are pretty outspoken, even blue. What can they do for the genealogist? How do we find one that "fits", and how do we find it again? Come join us while we look at a bunch of them to see how they can help us get our work done, learn somethingnew, and not waste too much time at it.
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!
January 2009 Meetings
TOPIC: How safe is the genealogical data you have spent years collecting?
SPEAKER: Richard Ellington, D-OGS Newsletter EditorHow safe is the genealogical data you have spent years collecting? Have you backed up your computer files lately? Do you have copies stored in safe places? If not, you need to do something about it NOW!
We will be talking about some fairly inexpensive methods for saving all that digital family trivia that you are hoarding but not protecting. After all, how much time and money would it cost to recreate that material?
D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 7 January 2009 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!
17 January 2009 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 of date from 10 January to 17 January 2009
Topic: "Another Year Gone By, and my Computer Has Molasses in it!"This January the D-OGS CIG is going to address getting ourselves and our computers in tip-top condition to take on the challenges of the new year. When was the last time you did a tune up, got rid of useless programs, defragmented the drive, and reviewed the bookmarks that no longer apply? Have you checked to see if your drivers are the latest ones? Have you updated your browser lately? Is your computer running as fast as when you popped open the box and started loading your favoritegenealogy software? You may want to join us and see what can be done to keep the key to the universe in your home in fine shape and tracking your ancestors on schedule through 2009. We'll also explore a couple of the latest tools that were not designed specifically with genealogists in mind, but lend themselves beautifully to all the tasks we require to do our jobs efficiently. - Carol
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!
Web Pages of LocalRelevance
- The TradingPath Association describes its purpose: to preserve, promoteand study remnants of the historic Trading Path of the Southeastern Piedmont.To quote from their website at http://www.tradingpath.org/: "The TradingPath was a transportation corridor defined by river crossings connectedto one another by trails. In colonial times it linked the James River colonialsettlements to the Catawba and Cherokee towns in the Carolinas and Georgia.It served Indian commerce prior to European colonization, and it servedas one of the principle avenues for European penetration of the Piedmontof the Southeastern United States.
- Duke'sDigital Scriptorium is developing digitized versions of historicalmaterials from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Libraryat Duke University and makes them accessible via the Internet. Notefrom the Webmaster: I quickly peeked at their website and found items asdiverse as the 1864 diary of a 16 year old girl during the American CivilWar; the papers of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a renowned Confederate spy; digitizedHistoric American Sheet Music published between 1850 and 1920; the DukePapyrus Archive with images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt.
- Old WestDurham National Historic District is located near Duke University andNinth Street in Durham, North Carolina. Their web site includes a detailedhistory of the area, old B&W photos of Erwin Mills, the historic millvillage, and the newspaper article about therediscoveryand restoration of Erwin Cotton Mills Cemetery.
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