Celebrate Juneteenth by discovering your roots. Learn techniques for utilizing the 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules to trace the lineage of your enslaved ancestors. Uncover valuable strategies towards advancing your genealogical research.

Presented by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, this event is free and in-person at Hickory Grove, 5935 Hickory Grove Road, Charlotte NC 28215.

For details see cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/693b4b00b5ff473000569c0b

This class explores strategies for tracing enslaved ancestors across multiple slave owners. Learn how to follow bills of sale, estate records, probate files, and plantation documents to reconstruct lives that were bought, sold, and moved across generations.

This free, virtual meeting is presented by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. For details see cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/69937c5394297d3600acb6f1

 

We will discuss the many ways to reach out to distant living cousins to help you expand your pedigree chart forward in time. You may find family treasures, photos, DNA test takers and information that will break down a brick wall. We will explore online trees, lineage societies, cemetery indexes, obituaries in newspapers, living people finder websites and social media.

This free, virtual event is presented by Wake County Genealogical Society. 
For details see www.wakecogen.org.

Union County Library Memories Roadshow: From attics to archives: preserving your place in Union County's story.

What’s tucked away in your attic, closet, or family Bible?
The Union County Library invites you to bring those pieces of your story into the light. During this two-hour drop-in event, patrons can share photographs, documents, artifacts, and personal stories that reflect life in Union County.
Capture these memories before they are lost and preserve them as part of a growing community archive.

 

It is not just about saving items. It is about saving meaning, context, and community memory.
This event is free and in-person. So bring a photo. Bring a recipe. Bring a story.

For details see union-nc.libcal.com/event/16535186

Join Olde Meck to officially open our new Family Research Center in the Encouragement Center at St. Luke's Lutheran Church.

We invite anyone to come by and see our new location, share some refreshments, learn what we have to offer, and enjoy some interesting social time.

Join Olde Meck for our July Monthly Meeting when we will have a speaker from the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, IN, who will provide some ways to gather genealogical resources without actually taking a trip to the library.