The Durham-Orange Genealogical Society of North Carolina

A nonprofit organization established in 1989 and dedicated to the research and preservation of family history of Durham and Orange counties, North Carolina

Welcome to the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society Website | Membership  | Application  | Photo Album | | Submit an On Line Query | Print Form for Mail-in Query | Recent Queries from members | | Links to Other Sources |  | Orange County Research Guide | | Books Published by members | William Bennett's Reference Books for Orange County | Olde Orange County Family History Day Library Links   Durham County, Orange County and Wake/Olivia Raney | MAP Orange County since 1752 | NC Counties Map | |  Index to 1920 Federal Census of Orange County, North Carolina | | Cemetery Links | Links to Olde Orange County - Durham-Orange Cemeteries and more!  D-OGS Member Websites

Address Durham-Orange Genealogical Society PO Box 4703 Chapel Hill, NC 27515-4703 Email: D-OGS Administration NCDOGS-admin@rootsweb.com

Regular Meetings   1st Wednesday, 7:00 pm Click here for each month's meeting place and program !! Usually held at the Duke Homestead Visitor Center/Tobacco Museum 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham  27705 Phone: (919) 477-5498 one-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) Follow the brown historic site road signs. A Map!         Another Map! Computer Special Interest Group Meeting 2nd Saturday, 9:00 am-noon Usually held at the Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC  Map! Click Here for each month's meeting place and program !!

The Most ACTIVE Genealogical Society in central North Carolina

**SPECIAL NOTICES**

Olde Orange County Family History Day Saturday, 10 May 2008 at the Century Center in Carrboro, NC. Click HERE for details, directions, list of participating organizations, photos from previous Olde Orange County Family History Day events, etc.

Surnames of Interest to Our Members Last Updated: 19 September 2007 This is a public list of the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society Member Surnames provided as a tool to our members to find members that are researching like Surnames.

Durham County Library NC Room Family History Books Index A Listing of the Family History Books in the NC Room, Indexed by Surname and Book Title

Upcoming Meetings March 2008 Meetings Wednesday, 5 March 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting TOPIC: "Roots of Resistance - A Story of the Underground Railroad" PBS Video in The American Experience series. In the mid-1800s, black men and women traveled a network of escape routes known as the underground railroad. Over dark forest trails, back roads and rivers, they made their way along carefully mapped routes leading to night trains to the north or boats to the south. Their flight from the shackles of slavery in the south was organized by other escaped slaves and their allies. This program recounts the little-known story of black America's secret railroad to freedom through narratives of escaped slaves. Viewers listen to interviews with descendents of slaves and slaveholders describing personal danger and terrible risks involved in each slave's departure. After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, even a successful flight to free territory didn't guarantee freedom from professional slave catchers who hunted down these men and women and returned them to a life of bondage on southern plantations. D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 5 March 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Duke Homestead Visitor's Center, 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham, NC 27705. Phone: (919) 477-5498 One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175), Follow the brown historic site road signs. A Map!         Another Map! D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public! The D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meeting will meet on Saturday morning, 15 March 2008 at 9 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Library downstairs in the small conference room. Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC  Map! "Creating the Context for Your Ancestors" For the March meeting we will be discussing an article from "INTERNET Genealogy", February/March 2008 entitled "Creating the Context for Your Ancestors' Lives" by Leslie Huber, and following some of the author's leads in strolling through history via our computers. We will then look at sites CIG members send me before the meeting that have been the greatest help or interest to them that we would not ordinarily be familiar with. It is important that folks send me the URLs early enough to be included in the agenda so the meeting moves along evenly, so dig back and remember where it was that you found that special bit of information and share it with us. We'll also use a Google trick to get news from your hometown sent right to your desktop every day so you won't miss a trick. How do you keep track of what's going on there? Tell us. Please send in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda. Carol Hubbell Boggs  HubbellGen@aol.com D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all! April 2008 Meetings Wednesday, 2April 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting TOPIC: "NGS in Raleigh, NC, May 2009" Announcements, Planning and Discussion! D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public! The D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meeting will NOT Meet in April 2008! See you in May! Will NOT Meet in April Please send in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda for next month Carol Hubbell Boggs  HubbellGen@aol.com D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all! May 2008 Meetings Wednesday, 7 May 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting TOPIC: "Stories of the Common Soldier" SPEAKER: Kent McCoury Kent McCoury holds a B.A. in History from Appalachian State University. He has worked for the North Carolina Department of  Cultural Resources for almost twenty years. For over 10 years, he has been the assistant site manager at Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham. He has taught at North Carolina State University and has published book reviews for The North Carolina Historical Review. (This program was originally scheduled for April but there was a mix-up with the presenter.) Bennett Place, the popular name for the farmhouse in Durham, North Carolina, owned by James and Nancy Bennett (proven Bennitt), was the site of the largest surrender of troops during the American Civil War, on April 26, 1865. The Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham, NC: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/Sections/hs/bennett/bennett.htm Bennett Place From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Place North Carolina Historic Sites: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/Sections/hs/ North Carolina Department of  Cultural Resources: http://www.ncculture.com/ D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 7 May 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Duke Homestead Visitor's Center, 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham, NC 27705. Phone: (919) 477-5498 One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175), Follow the brown historic site road signs. A Map!         Another Map! D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public!    D-OGS EVENT Olde Orange County Family History Day Click on link above for more information Saturday 10 May 2008, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, at the Century Hall in the Carrboro Century Center in downtown Carrboro, North Carolina The D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meeting will meet on Saturday morning, 17 May 2008 at 9 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Library downstairs in the small conference room. Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC  Map! Note Date Change The May CIG meeting will touch on some new sites we've found to assist with our genealogy, as well as a progress report from everyone who has used some of Google's new features to do the searching for us while we sleep. We'll also discuss a program that includes information about an image right within the file. Now that the TMG Primer is in so many hands, maybe we'll take some time to discuss how it has helped us use TMG if we have some users in attendance. Please send along the new sites you've been finding so we can look at them together. Feel free to join us even if you feel you're not a proficient "techie" with your genealogy, we talk about everything under the sun if it pertains to our research. Pleasesend in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda. Carol Hubbell Boggs  HubbellGen@aol.com D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all! June 2008 Meetings Wednesday, 4 June 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting TOPIC: "To Be Announced"   D-OGS Meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, 4 June 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Duke Homestead Visitor's Center, 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham, NC 27705. Phone: (919) 477-5498 One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175), Follow the brown historic site road signs. A Map!         Another Map! D-OGS Meetings are open to the general public! The D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meeting will meet on Saturday morning, 14 June 2008 at 9 a.m. at the Chapel Hill Library downstairs in the small conference room. Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC  Map! "To Be Announced" Please send in interesting new web sites, and other items you'd like to share with the group well ahead of time so it can be included on the agenda. Carol Hubbell Boggs  HubbellGen@aol.com D-OGS Computer Interest Group Meetings are open to all!

 

Web Pages of Local Relevance

1. The Trading Path Association describes its purpose: to preserve, promote and study remnants of the historic Trading Path of the Southeastern Piedmont. To quote from their website at http://www.tradingpath.org/: "The Trading Path was a transportation corridor defined by river crossings connected to one another by trails. In colonial times it linked the James River colonial settlements to the Catawba and Cherokee towns in the Carolinas and Georgia. It served Indian commerce prior to European colonization, and it served as one of the principle avenues for European penetration of the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States.
2. Duke's Digital Scriptorium is developing digitized versions of historical materials from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University and makes them accessible via the Internet. Note from the Webmaster: I quickly peeked at their website and found items as diverse as the 1864 diary of a 16 year old girl during the American Civil War; the papers of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a renowned Confederate spy; digitized Historic American Sheet Music published between 1850 and 1920; the Duke Papyrus Archive with images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt.
3. Old West Durham National Historic District is located near Duke University and Ninth Street in Durham, North Carolina. Their web site includes a detailed history of the area, old B&W photos of Erwin Mills, the historic mill village, and the newspaper article about the rediscovery and restoration of Erwin Cotton Mills Cemetery.

 

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