Author Archives: kbenbow

I received a notice of a new publication: Giants in the Land: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Leaders, by Billy M. Britt, published in Greensboro in 2012 by the NC Yearly Meeting of Friends. This book contains biographies of Mary Williams Chawner Woody, … Continue reading →

Links were added to yearbooks for five area colleges and universities — under Education on the Records page.

As I continue work gathering marriage records for the website, I have added more bastardy bond images and information, and that work will continue over the coming weeks.  Most families have an illegitimate child or two in their ancestry, so … Continue reading →

Information from a Maxwell-Russell Bible was posted on a new Bible Records page linked to the menu.  It has also been submitted to the NCGenWeb Archives for this site.

I stumbled across a set of transcriptions of early Guilford court records from 1781 to 1811.  The first ten years of Guilford court records were burned, lost, or stolen at the time of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, so we … Continue reading →

I just published a page on this site about Guilford tax lists, linked to the Records tab in the menu.  I have made available images of the 1815 Tax List, which is stored at the NC State Archives in Raleigh. … Continue reading →

I added a list of early Guilford land owners shown on the Hughes map. There are two pages — surnames A-L and surnames M-Z. The Hughes map is available from the Guilford County Genealogical Society. It’s a great asset for … Continue reading →

Some material from the old site has been converted to three new pages.  Information on Civil War burials in Oakwood Cemetery in High Point has been set up on its own page.  And a PDF booklet on Pleasant Garden United … Continue reading →

After working on this site transition off and on for a number of months, I have been pushing to finish the job.  There are pages which are still in transition, but I hope to have everything in place by the … Continue reading →