Webinars
Spring 2026 Seminar
Ledgers, aka small business records, document everyday transactions-the kind our families participated in. We'll discuss the common ledger types/formats, what we can learn (personal details & everyday minutiae), the various businesses represented, and how to locate these genealogically leverageable gems. Great for personal details and documenting underrepresented individuals.
Let's explore 20+ records where death might be documented. We are not talking about regularly consulted records, such as obituaries, probate, tombstones, and more. We'll discuss alternative records, e.g., marble works, woodworkers, coffin-makers, undertaker ledgers, burial permits, physicians' records, and beyond. Death is documented in many unexpected places.
Though a trip across the pond would be fun & rewarding, fortunately, without leaving home, we can explore resources to fill in the details of our British colonial-era ancestors. Some are U.S.-created, and others come to us from the U.K. (free & subscription). An explosion in the availability of and access to U.K. databases is priceless.
Biography: Diane has an M.E. and an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; has been a researcher since 1987. She has been giving talks on genealogical topics since 2006 and, in 2025, celebrates 20 years of providing professional genealogy research services. Published Tracing Your Ancestors - African American Research a Practical Guide. Edited the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal since 2016.
She is co-founder of GenWebinars, https://genwebinars.com/, launched in May 2024, which provides direct-to-consumer live, online, in-depth, interactive genealogy webinars.
She is Vice President of NC Historical Records Online (NCHRO), established in 2019, http://nchistoricalrecords.org/, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public access to high-quality images of original records and other related information useful to researching North Carolina history and genealogy.
