What a beautiful story. That certificate is just awesome. Take it to a documents expert. He will clean it and fix that tear. It'll be ready to go for the generations to come.❤😊

Guys like Tommy Anderson are all over NC... They might own a big beautiful piece of land, but they feel like working it is some unreasonable burden, and that someone else should do the labor for them. Stay in the shade Tommy, stay cool. Poor baby wants to live in the South but oh it's so hot. Seriously though think about where this kind of attitude in American agriculture might have come from

Do you have to put in the state somewhere

I can't seem to find the same thing for Carteret County but now I'm down a rabbit hole so I'll come back to it ;-)

New subscriber here! ☑️ My Yelverton/ Blount grandparents were from Edenton, Chowan County. Am very excited to discover this channel - I'm sorry to hear about KZbin problems...

Clay County & Person County. The ancestors from Clay County (in the south western part of the state) are spread out to TN, NC, & GA, because in the 1700s, ‘Carolina’ included NC, SC, TN, & GA.

I just watched your video regarding youtube taking down this channel. Until that video, I did not realize you had a North Carolina channel. So, a silver lining to youtube's mistake....❤️ I have a brick wall that is located in NC. My Great Grandmother lived in Wilson/Duplin and most likely died in childbirth with my Grand father in July 1895. I have looked for church records, newspapers, etc. Death records started in 1913 (?). No luck. It is like she didn't exist... Anyway, I am so glad I found this channel......and I wish you the best.

Mecklenburg and Edgecombe

Could you please look for Bertie Tukuluk and Hannah Tukuluk supposedly from New Brunswick New Jersey

Thank you! I've been doing our Family History - On & Off - for decades! Therefore; I'm always a beginner and always learning. I appreciate your teachings. Obrigadu. Asé Peace & Blessings, "Guided by the Ancestors"

I love ❤❤❤ this

Wonderful story. I had a couple of tears at the end, myself.

There are some old copies on the Internet Archive, and they are searchable.

This was so exciting to watch. I grew up in New Jersey only a few minutes from Bordentown. What great work.

Do you only help people in NC?

How COOL!!!!😅😅❤❤❤

Beautiful story!

The mystery of why it was in the back of a picture and how did it get so far away will never be known, which is the one sad thing in such a happy outcome.

People often kept prints or pictures in a frame when they reuse them. I love old frames and have found things behind more modern things. I’ve found a railroad engineer certificate and 2 hand tinted ladies fashion prints from the 1860’s . They were the center fold engravings from a fashion magazine like Goode’s that someone kept. They are original.

How cool

I've always wanted to hire someone to help me but I always get concerned about the cost I don't have a lot of money I have a lot of information though a very a real whole lot but in the 1850s that's where it kind of separated and I'm not sure exactly how to connect the older from the newer a lot of very interesting people in my past back to Gwydir Castle in edinboro and the house of Burgess in North Carolina was it and a wagon train master that traveled toward Tennessee and a place called the White House in Tennessee that was owned by family and one of the first senators of California and one relative that was personal chaplain to Old hickory why can't I remember his name right now president and several circuit riders in my ancestry including a whole lot more even back to the revolutionary war and before , Jones on my mother's side and Gwin, Gwynn, and other spelling

Did she purchase the Picture the marriage certificate was behind and what is the pictures story? I put papers behind pictures also. That painting was important to someone.

I got to do some digging about my family tree and it’s many branches starting in NC

I don’t trust ancestry at all and they were bought by Blackstone a for profit, in 2007, and they creep me out ancestry that is they know everything about everybody even before DNA testing they are still being run by the LDS or Mormons whichever you want to call them. Great video though ❤

What about the painting? That painting no doubt belonged to a family member too. I'd want that too even if I had to buy it.

❤ Well, somebody else does “Fishing Trees” except you call them “Floating Trees”.. I’ve been doing it for years.. very helpful when you live in a place, having several families with the same surname, same denomination , same church even and wanting to know if they are connected. As it still stands 15 years later and no connection. I’ve gone back as far as I can with my “Fishing Tree” on my surname without crossing over the pond. I still have it up waiting for a bite.

It not strange family connects in when the time is right.

Very interesting! I still have My paternal Grandparents marriage certificate from 1928! The oldest picture I have is My great, great grandfather who was born in 1846, He looks about 30 or so. I have a couple other pictures of Him taken in 1931 when he was about 85. He died in 1933.

What an amazing story. Kudos to you for reaching out and assisting in reuniting the certificate with its ancestor. So many family photos, documents and heirlooms end up in thrift and antique shops never to be reunited with family.

Nice job. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story.

I drive by the hilltop hotel every week in Bordentown NJ. Very nice story to watch.

So the painting was her family's too, because it was in the back of a painting. But nobody has mentioned the painting

Great story!

I have to tell you - I'm a hard man but this story moved me. That feeling of nobody knowing your full life and stuck with a head full of memories but nobody left to ask, "hey do you remember when...?" I know what she means about that feeling of her ancestors reaching out. My family had a 50 year brick wall we were certain would never get solved. I was back home for a week after an uncle's funeral. I was having a think over a coffee and all of a sudden puzzle pieces were falling into place. I rushed to the computer to look through my documents and there it all was. I solved the mystery that day and I felt like my uncle might have pulled some strings. I love genealogy. We never got to know our ancestors but it feels like we know them, and we remain connected to our families through time and generations.

LOVE this!! ♥

Buy why, did they not want Katy Havey’s hope trunk where the marriage certificate was found.

Anyone that deals with genealogy knows there are "forces" that push & pull you in certain directions to find info to help you make those connections.

Do you know any thing about Tates

I think the painting is the perfect spot to keep documents hidden for safe keeping. In fact I was taught by my grandma (mom's mom) to keep money hidden in books and socks, in clocks and in freezer, bury in back yard....in case of fire, flood, tornado or robbery and if bank collapse (like the stock market crash of 1929)...It is in something solid and if it gets wet it's not that big of a deal. She kept family births, marriage, death in her bible. I don't know how she kept it straight or how she had enough blank pages to do it. lol

I'd want the print too. As it must have belonged to them as well. As it was tucked in the frame At one time it had obviously been in that frame. Before the print was put in it

I’ve been doing this for 20 years by actually purchasing old photographs and old documents and returning them to the rightful families.

Thank you for the work you’ve done and for sharing this video

Will and Kate❤❤❤😊

Great story. I hope they gave Irene the painting/picture it was found behind. That might mean something to her as well. I do believe we are never alone; our ancestors aren't as gone as we may think, spiritually speaking. I traced back about 500 years of my 2nd GGF's Nice, FR history to give to my mother the printed out copies of originals, back in 2011. She could not believe her eyes; copies of every handwritten record. She said no one in our lines had ever blazed the trail as I had. I spent a year at it daily, had great help from a cousin when I got briefly stuck and then continued on after what she had provided. Turns out she grew up down the street from the still standing villa my 2nd GGF was born in. How crazy is that. She felt were were cousins in there somewhere. I did not run out of finds, but by mid 1550s I was just tired. Boy, do the FR keep excellent records, and many had the most beautiful handscript. She showed me how to access their notaire records, that differ from ours. On another branch, I found my 6th GGM's b record; the widow of the de Anza Exp, but haven't shared it. Not sure I'm going to. I busted my arse for years tracking that down. I don't care for how Antdotcom buys and/or swipes records, charges people to see their own birth rite info lineage. Doesn't seem right to me. It should be reasonable for all to be able to access. And their sloppy translations of foreign records often had surnames in wrong order and baptismal dates mistaken for birth dates. They never listed the times when they were right there 99.9% of the time, on the written records. Often they did not post the actual written record. Glad I did the research way back when bc my mother passed in early 2022. Genealogy was my fav thing to do for several years, but outside of Antdotcom.

I wonder who owned the picture the certificate was placed in. Did her grandmother own that, or perhaps her mother?

probly Not hidden....probly stord for a moving day

@18:04 Divine Intervention.

I don't know these people from Adam but I'm so grateful to YOU for diving in deep to find and connect the bits & pieces of history which allowed the document to reach a rightful descendant.

Wow, this is really awesome. Im just now getting into ancestry, and your explanation for research was very thorough.

There are no coincidences ….Spirit at work ❤