Jim volunteers as a genealogy assistant for our local library. In the course of assisting many people pursue their family history, he is amassing a collection of links for genealogy centered on North Carolina and Chatham County specifically. The links are available at his wiki: https://fh.creeksidefarm.org
Here is a table of other links that may be useful:
| Chatham Historical Society | https://chathamhistory.org/ |
| Chatham Library online resources | Library Online Resources |
| Family Search research wiki | https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page. Enter any term in the search box and choose from the results that drop down. You can enter a name, a place or a topic. Very useful to understand what records are available in a particular location. See the Chatham County page at https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Chatham_County,_North_Carolina_Genealogy. Many Bibles listed low on page, along with biographies and letters. |
| Family History guide to doing research | https://www.thefhguide.com/. This is where you can learn the process of genealogy. Read through the opening page and watch the Overview Video, then choose what topics you want to explore. |
| Leeds Method for organizing DNA hits | https://www.danaleeds.com/dna-color-clustering-the-leeds-method-for-easily-visualizing-matches/. One of the ways to sort through all those Ancestry DNA cousins! |