Lloyd Bockstruck, noted genealogy author, speaker and head of the Genealogy Department at the Dallas (TX) Public Library will be presenting four discussions at the Main Library in Uptown Charlotte.

Workshop topics include:

• Records for civilians in and after the Civil War
• Comparing colonial land records in North and South Carolina
• Bridging the Atlantic: Finding your ancestral home
• Indian Wars

Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Main Library’s Auditorium
310 North Tryon Street

Bockstruck has been the supervisor of the Genealogy Section of the Dallas Public Library since 1973. He received the Award of Merit from the National Genealogical Society in 1982, was named a Fellow of the National Genealogical Society in 1993, and was the first receipiant of the “Filby Prize for Genealogical Librarianship” from the Scholarly Resources and the National Genealogical Society in 1999.

The workshops are free, but registration is required.
Call the Carolina Room at 704-336-2980 to register beginning Sept. 1, 2006.

Advanced Genealogy

• Independence Regional Library
  September 25th, 2-3:30 p.m.
• South County Regional Library
  September 26th, 7-8:30 p.m.
• Morrison Regional Library
  October 12th, 7-8:30 p.m.
• North County Regional Library
  October 19th, 7-8:30 p.m.
• Mint Hill Library
  October 26th, 7-8:30 p.m.
• University City Regional Library
  November 14th, 7-8:30 p.m.

Marriage, Death and Other Notices: Early Mecklenburg County, NC Newspaper Abstracts

This database was created from abstracts of marriages, deaths and notices that appeared in county newspapers before 1900. It provides a variety of information, from details on individuals, to business and neighborhoods, and the sale or transfer of land and slaves.

Charlotte City Directory 1879-1880

Charlotte's population was only 7,094 people in 1880. Look up local families, businesses and view ads.

This fall, history students from Queens University transcribed some of the letters from the John and Jane Wilkes Collection as a requirement for a research class. Currently staff are going over the transcriptions and preparing them for future publication, so they are not yet available to the public. The Carolina Room hopes to work again with the University and Dr. Suzanne Cooper-Guasco.

Please note that this is a small sample of the recent materials. For a complete listing, please visit the CMStory acquisition page.

• Anson County Estate Papers 1805-1953 (19 microfilm reels)
• Cabarrus County Estate Papers 1793-1953 (18 microfilm reels)
• Rowan County Estate Papers 1753-1929 (70 microfilm reels)
• Mecklenburg County Bastardy Bonds and Records 1795-1935
• Mecklenburg County Naturalization Records 1822; 1866-1927

View a complete list of our recent acquisitions