Randolph County, NCGenWeb

History of Jordan Memorial UMC

kbenbow — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:43:58 +0000

A link to an online history of Jordan Memorial UMC has been added to the Publications page under “E-books.”

Asheboro Courier

kbenbow — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:48:03 +0000

Early issues of the Asheboro Courier are now online: Digital North Carolina.

Lookup Volunteer

kbenbow — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:18:11 +0000

Jean Covington LaCoss has kindly offered to do limited look-ups at the Randolph Room in Asheboro. This is limited to search and retrieval of three documents at a time; it is not an offer to do research. Further details are on the Query & Lookups page of this website, which has a link to her email address. Please do remember to tell her thank-you, and offer to pay any costs involved. Thank you, Jean!

North Carolina Digital Heritage Center histories

kbenbow — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:30 +0000

The NC Digital Heritage Center has a number of Randolph County histories online. I added a link to them on the home page.

Seagrove Area (1976) e-book

kbenbow — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:08:31 +0000

An e-book link has been added to the Publications page.

African-American Quaker

kbenbow — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:30:27 +0000

This newspaper article is about a woman who has written a book about her African-American ancestor, a Quaker, from Randolph County.

Randolph Business Directory 1894

kbenbow — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:15:34 +0000

A link to the e-book of the Randolph Business Directory for 1894 at archive.org was added to the publications page: http://ncgenweb.us/nc/randolph/publications/

e-books and map

kbenbow — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:12:23 +0000

Two books were recently made available by Internet Archives. Links to those were placed on the Publications page. Also, a Maps page was set up, and the township map for Randolph County was added there.

Bastardy Bonds

kbenbow — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:25:41 +0000

I’ve started an effort to collect bastardy bonds of Randolph County. Contributions of information and/or images of the bonds are welcome.