Guilford County Genealogical Society

10/21/2026

10/03/2026

Several years ago, I discovered that a distant cousin violated Ancestry’s Living People in Family Trees policy by declaring us all dead as of 2012.

08/27/2026

UPCOMING LIVE WEBINAR - Register now to attend Annette Burke Lyttle's upcoming Civil War webinar. September 2, 2026, 7pm-8pm, Eastern.

Webinar Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8099641923324026200

About the Webinar:

Civil War records often tell us that a soldier was “captured,” but they rarely explain how that moment unfolded or why the surviving documentation looks the way it does. For North Carolina Confederates held in Union prisoner-of-war camps, the path into captivity varied widely. Each of the circumstances left a different paper trail, shaping what we can find in compiled service records, prisoner registers, hospital rolls, and pension applications.
Learn how to reconstruct the rest of the story from scattered evidence.

Join us at the NCGS 2026 Fall Conference! https://ncgenealogy.org/fall2026

About the Speaker:

Annette Burke Lyttle, CG,® owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She speaks on a variety of genealogical topics at the international, national, state, and local levels and loves helping people uncover and share their family stories.
Annette is a course coordinator for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and the British Institute. She is a published writer whose research interests include Quaker ancestors and ancestral migrations in the US. She is past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists and editor of The Florida Genealogist.

04/30/2026

Do you have papers from your kids (or maybe even yourself) that you can't bear to part with, but that really aren't necessarily worth saving forever?

We can't save everything and do you need to save every drawing someone made?

Give them permission to toss it if you can't. Of course you will be dead, but this might you feel better.

--Michael