Hi ALL who have any potential Gen connection to NC. The MARS collection
of the NC State Archives:
http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us/
will locate many potentially excellent files for each Surname in which you
might have a NC interest.
Having said that, there are 2 major drawbacks:
1) MARS is quirky - working well some of the time, not so well other times,
and;
2) The results are only partial, requiring someone to eventually visit the
site directly (this is still murky to me) to recover the data you determined
were in the files. You can get a significant amount of info online, but
apparently not all of it.
I recommend clicking the ALL selection for which databases you wish to
search. I must admit, every time connecting is an adventure. If the
potential payoff weren't so large, I might give up.
Because I understand this msg is puzzling, I will post just a small
portion of what I located for my Witherington search results:
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- "The Elizabeth Moore Collection" - ref:
Benjamin Simms Family Bible Records 1739-1941- WITHERINGTON Family
- Craven County, WITHERINGTON, James Lewis, House (& 4 other W'ton Houses)
- Rev. Army Accounts for: Witherington, C; WITHERINGTON, Cleverly;
Witherington, Daniel; Witherington, J; Witherington, Jacob; Witherington,
Jesse; Witherington, Joseph; Witherington, Nathan; Witherington, R.; &
Witherington, Solomon.
- Witherington, Donald, Witherington, Ben; Whitford-Witherington Co.;
Witherington, J. E.
(bw comment - see the J E W'ton letter in my files. 1/Jul/2004 22:56);
- Benjamin R. WITHERINGTON (Pitt County); I. K. Witherington; James W.
Witherington (Forsyth County).
- correspondence, David Darnell and A. B. Witherington to Joseph Biggs,
1843
- Soldiers' Home; Witherington, James W. (1 record of 76 (similar?) records
bw)
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As you can see, for example, I DID learn that there were references and
files for these specific W'tons;
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Benjamin Simms Family Bible Records 1739-1941- Witherington Family
- Craven County, Witherington, James Lewis, House (& 4 other W'ton Houses)
- Rev. Army Accounts for: Witherington, C; Witherington, Cleverly;
Witherington, Daniel; Witherington, J; Witherington, Jacob; Witherington,
Jesse; Witherington, Joseph; Witherington, Nathan; Witherington, R.; &
Witherington, Solomon,
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but I did NOT learn what those exact references & documents were, other than
the Simms Bible and the Rev. Army Accounts .
It may be possible for you to 'Join' MARS to proceed further, perhaps
online, a step I will consider this fall.
Please, if you use this resource, give us some tips abt what worked for
you.
[Sure enough, I went back to search on the Link, and got this error msg.:
"***Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.***
Maybe MARS doesn't work holidays/weekends. Maybe these are all men
researchers and they really are from MARS. Keep trying! bw 7/6/04
Barry
PS: Below, as an example, is a specific Link (remember, you must load the
entire URL address of the link into the Browser Link window) that seemed to
work. However, I recommend starting at the shorter link above, at the top.
bw
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