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NCGenWeb county pages are sites such as the Person County NCGenWeb site you are now using.

These "USGenWeb Archive" sites are repositories for transcriptions of wills, deeds, and other useful documents from our sister site. Very important that you check them out.

Ancestry Message Boards provide a web page based facility for posting and searching messages. If you want to know when there is a new post for a specific county, use the "add board to notifications" link and you will receive an email each time a post is added. Messages posted to these boards can be searched efficiently. Try the "Advanced Search" link. If you post to these boards, do other researchers a favor and properly classify your post using the "Message Type" choices. The Boards are free, but you must sign up for a free account in order to post, which is very easy to get.

Be aware that although posts to the Message Board are made immediately, the index that the search function uses is updated on a later schedule.  You can always find any messages that you have posted yourself by clicking onto the "View Posts" option beside your, or anyone else's name, on the Message Boards.  Also, whenever using a Message Board, make sure that you keep your email address current with Ancestry so that you can be notified of any replies to your message.  You can get replies many years after first posting a query on a Message Board, and it's always a good idea to keep your info up-to-date, no matter how many times you may change your email address.

Remember that when posting a message to Message Board, you should be clear and concise as to what you are looking for. In the Subject line, you should include the Name, Location, and a Time Frame at the very least, then in the Body of the message, a more detailed description of the individual and/or family saying what other records you have looked through and where, will better enable others to help you in your research. Never ask for "all the records that you have..." or similar wording when requesting research help, one should always be specific and courteous in any message posted on a public forum, and you will get much better results because researchers are more likely to read through a well-worded message than one that gives little or no details.

GenForum Boards are similar to the Ancestry Message Boards, except that they are now Read only; North Carolina Messages are all archived on one page.

County Historical Societies are useful sources of of resources and frequently genealogical information.

Facebook is one of the popular ways to do research by posting  & sharing on some of the many genealogy Groups of all kinds. By joining a group, you can post your research questions and get responses from others who are possibly researching the same families, or who can help you with tips and info that may be a resource you didn't have before. There are also Facebook pages which local memorabilia and history for the area.  I suggest you look for groups for the Locations or Surnames you are researching. Some of these groups are below.

Person County research group:

• Person County, NC Ancestry Connection 

North Carolina Research groups:

• NCGenWeb Project

• North Carolina Genealogy Network

Person County memorabilia, family, photo & historical groups:

• Remembering Roxboro & Person County

• Reminiscing in Roxboro

And for Neighboring counties:

• Caswell County Historical Association

• Mecklenburg Co., Virginia Genealogy

• Franklin, Granville, Vance & Warren Genealogy

• Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren (+) Genealogy

For researching your enslaved ancestors, a couple of recommended groups:

• I've Traced My Enslaved Ancestors and Their Owners

• Our Black Ancestry

A number of Obituaries for Person County are posted on the Ancestry Message Board, some of which were posted in the past with permission of the Courier-Times, and others contributed by visitors.  Read the following instructions.

Tips for searching obituaries on the Person County Message Board

1. After you get to the Person Co. message board page, click the "Advanced Search" link.
2. Select  "Person Board" on the "Advanced Search" page.
3. On the "Message Classification" line, select "Obituary".
4. Put in a Surname, if looking for someone in particular, or leave blank to get all Person County listings; then click SEARCH.

Using these options should restrict your search just to obituaries that have been posted from the Courier-Times.  Once you have tried a few searches, add this step:

• Add a surname entry in the "With Surname" field. Generally the surnames listed for each obituary include not only the deceased by also the surnames of in-laws, and parents.