If you’ve been doing African-American research in North Carolina you are probably familiar with the text, Somebody Knows My Name: Marriages of Freed People in North Carolina County by County by Dr. Barnetta McGhee White.   This book is an excellent resource as Dr. White searched records of many counties in the state to create this listing of marriages & cohabitations declared by blacks in North Carolina after the Civil War.   I’ve found several of my own ancestors mentioned in this book and her documentation of plantation records in Edgecombe County even led me to the identification of my ancestors’ slaveholders.

Recently,  Dr. White informed me that she has another resource on her website that is often overlooked – a documentation of all slaves mentioned in Granville County deeds from 1768-1864.  If you have enslaved ancestors from or near Granville County, you must check this out!  You can find her index at her website.

Granville county co-hosts Nola & Deloris have also added the link to the African-American resources page at the site, so you can also access it from there.