Since it’s been a priority this hot summer to work on my genealogy (and our air quality in Spokane….and all across the Pacific Northwest has been awful due to the many forest fires so it’s been advised to stay indoors.) I’ve several bins of “Phillips Research Notes” on my office floor which I’ve been slowly working my way through. In the doing, I’ve discovered some gems……. gems of things I planned to check out but never did. Like this:
The State Library of North Carolina offers a fabulous long list of digital resources. What I first wanted to look for was a Phillips family Bible since the website says they have 1500 Bible records from North Carolina families. My search yielded 151 Bibles…..and the very first one was for a William Phillips, the name I was looking for. Alas, not the right one for me, but what a resource!
The bottom of their website is a map of North/South Carolina and upper Georgia that is peppered with red dots. Each dot is a LINK…. click on that dot to see records from that place in their holdings. Never seen a website like that, have you?
This website includes birth and death indexes (1800-2000), marriage bonds (1741-1868), NC county marriages ( 1762-1979) and biographies and Bible records, and cemetery records and more and more! Oh, and they have the NCpedia “an online encyclopedia about North Carolina” which as of 1 Aug 2017 included 7151 entries and 7539 images. Wowsers. If you’ve research needs in North/South Carolina, better check this out, eh?