This week went in the books as a frustrating one on the research front. The week began with my continuing to research the history of the Margaret Lane Cemetery. However, this proved to be a dead end. I searched through the deed records that are available to me for Orange County, but was unable to get any where with that. Although there were sales of land to the owner of the Cemetery, none of them were the correct plot of land and none of them were sales from the town.<\/p>\n
With this portion of the research hitting a dead end, I moved onto researching those who were buried in the cemetery. First I tried online research through the information that I could gather via third-party websites. This information only went so far when coupled with the books that I had on the History in Hillsborough. The one moment of excitement came when I was able to put a crude family tree together that linked two family members who are supposedly buried in the MLC. However, this theory was contingent on either a misprint or a nickname that was given to the woman that was buried there. While this is entirely possible, it is not probable.<\/p>\n
From that point I went on to go to the library. While there I looked through the resources available to me through their ancestry.com account. This proved unhelpful apart from finding a few possible census entries that could be related to those buried. I was then able to look through the microfilm for the local newspaper for the dates of death. However, there is a large portion of the late 1800’s into the early 1900’s that is not there due to the paper moving and the new paper not installing itself yet. The few dates that did match with the newspapers I could view did not yield any information. I can only assume that this is because the obituaries, which seemed few and far between, were expensive enough to prohibit the families of those being buried from publishing one. Although I did learn a great deal about using resources this week, they did not prove helpful in the avenues I was pursuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week went in the books as a frustrating one on the research front. The week began with my continuing to research the history of the Margaret Lane Cemetery. However, this proved to be a dead end. I searched through the deed records that are available to me for Orange County, but was unable to … Continue reading Weekly Journal 6<\/span>