Mecklenburg Genealogical Society September 2024 Meeting

**Rescheduled from November 2023**

April’s speaker is Diane Richard, MEng & MBA, Mosaic Research and Project Management (MosaicRPM). Diane has been doing genealogy research since 1987 and, since 2004, professionally focused on the records of North Carolina and southern states.

Due to extensive record losses, colonial research can be quite challenging. The further back we go, the fewer extant records we find. That said, there are goldmines to be explored. We’ll discuss what records survive and what you will want to pursue when researching this period. And recent digitization efforts (State Archives of North Carolina) and resource access (via the State Library of North Carolina), along with an increasing number of new and unique colonial-era focused projects, give us unparalleled access to the records of this period and opportunities to dig for gold. We’ll leverage the heritage of Joel Lane, whose land became the basis for the NC capital city Raleigh, and discoveries made throughout the talk. A lot of “mining” was done to identify extant relevant records. We’ll also discuss select research strategies for dealing with common repeated names.

We are currently meeting via the ZOOM web conference platform on the second Wednesday of each month. Visitors are welcome to join as early as 7:00 PM (Eastern) for some informal social time. A brief business meeting begins at 7:30 pm, followed by the presentation for the evening. Meetings feature speakers and programs related to family history and genealogy research. The meetings generally are one hour long and most have an open Q&A session for the speaker afterwards.

Meetings are recorded and replays available to members only on the Olde Meck website.

You will receive the Zoom link for the meeting in your confirmation email.

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