Have you explored the CCC records for your ancestors? The Civilian Conservation Corps are a valuable resource to your genealogy research! The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public relief corps dating from 1933-1942. Part of the New Deal by President Roosevelt, this program was specifically for unmarried and unemployed men. The men of the CCC worked to build roads, parks and improve other lands and natural resources.   Organized into camps throughout the country that ran similar to the military, the records they kept include admission, discharge and service records. James Lester Howard of Lee County, North Carolina was the perfect CCC candidate! In 1933, he was 18 years…

Do you find yourself researching your ancestors in a burned county? (A “burned county” is a county where a significant loss of records has occurred due to courthouse fire(s). ) Unfortunately, this is something the researcher often encounter when researching North Carolina research. Church records can be a rich source of genealogical information in counties where many local records have been lost. But…..where do you find these records?