Please, please, please!!! Do NOT use colored chalk to enhance the image on a tombstone. Instead, use a chemical called D/2 which you can use to scrub the grave marker without damaging it. Do NOT use metal or plastic scrapers on a grave but use D/2 with a soft brush. Let it stand for about 10-15 minutes, then pour water on it as a rinse which is the preferred method. You can also leave it without a rinse since the biologic chemical D/2 will continue to eat the algae.

And please don't post a photo of a grave you can't see to read it.

https://youtu.be/8WdUSzKcmjs

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Former name on FAG was Just A Volunteer and Anonymous and joined over 19 yrs ago.

If you no longer want to manage a memorial, transfer them to FAG number 8 which is FAG's main page.

Here's some basic info you may not have:

Date of Birth calculator (Free)

https://www.calculator.net/date-calculator.html

Converting old North Carolina state road numbers to names

https://apps.ncdot.gov/srlookup/

Maternal lines from Surry County, NC & paternal lines from Savannah, Chatham County, GA.

In late 1800s and early 1900s there were no NC state-wide birth records. However, a file for Surry County delayed births can be seen at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZX-PH2H?cc=2848682

Good source for older death records: https://www.familysearch.org/

Creation of NC counties (for accuracy on birth locations) can be found on-line. Takes you from creation of North Carolina in 1771 as an original colony to current day:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nc/state2/amap/nccf.html)

Note: "Please" enter the original county when it existed at the time someone died. Example - Forsyth County, NC did not exist until 1849 when it was created from Stokes County. If you are looking for records before 1849 in Forsyth County, they would be found in Stokes County.

North Carolina before after creation of Surry County, NC

https://s24476.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/web1_1760-1775.jpg

Surry County - created in 1771 from merger of Rowan and Orange counties (which covered all land westward to the Mississippi River and included all of current day Forsyth, Stokes, and Yadkin counties as well as all land westward)

Stokes County - created in 1789 from Surry County. Current borders with Surry, Rockingham, Forsyth, Guilford, and northern border with Patrick & Henry counties in Virginia. When Stokes was created, it included all land that would later become Forsyth County in 1849.

Forsyth - created in 1849 out of Stokes County. Also, Winston-Salem did not exist until 1913 when the towns of Winston and Salem were merged. Shares border with Stokes, Yadkin, Davie, Davidson, & Guilford counties. Also, Abbott's Creek Township is in Forsyth "and" Davidson County, so be sure to know the difference.

Yadkin County - created in Dec 1850 from Surry County. In 1850 Surry County census it was referred to as the "southern division" of Surry County (see 1850 Surry census). Shares borders with Surry, Forsyth, Davie, Iredell, and Wilkes counties.

Am providing these counties as a guide to ensure members have the correct location for counties. If someone was born, married, or died in Forsyth County before 1849, in reality it probably was in Stokes, or possibly Surry, Wilkes, Guilford, or Davidson so you'd need to check the records in those counties.

Maternal ancestors are Patterson & Whitaker in Surry County, NC. Others were Crissman, Logan, Ring, Evans, Shore, and Jefferson. Indirect links are to Fulk (Falk, Fulp, Volk, Volck, etc.), Redman (Redmon, Redmond), Haymore, Roberts, Stone, Flippin (Flippen), & Jessup (Jessop)

Paternal ancestors are Carter in Chatham County, GA. Direct paternal lines include Carter, Wells, Groover, Lightsey, Tillman, Barber, Price, Mobley, Deveraux, & Robinson. Indirect Carter ancestors include Zittrauer (Effingham Co, GA), Collins (Mitchell Co, GA), as well as Stuart, Scott, Mercer, & Haselton of South Carolina counties of Georgetown, Marion, & Williamsburg.