Hyde County Historical Society to Meet May 18th

The Hyde Co. Historical and Genealogical Society will hold its spring meeting on Sunday, May 18, 2014 at the Mattamuskeet School Cafeteria, US Hwy 264, Swan Quarter, NC, beginning at 2:30 p.m. 

The featured speaker is Craig Roberts Scott, MA, CG, a nationally-recognized genealogist, whose research has specialized in the records of the National Archives.  He is also the author of several books, and has published articles in National Geographic Society Quarterly, Family Chronicle and other genealogy publications.  Scott has been a faculty member for several years at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University and the Salt Lake City Institute of Genealogy.

In addition, longtime Ocracoke resident and journalist, Philip Howard, author of Digging Up Uncle Evans: History, Ghost Tales, and Stories from Ocracoke Island, and publisher of the online Ocracoke Newsletter, will speak to the group.  He is also one of the contributors to the current issue of the Society’s journal.

The spring issue of High Tides, the Society’s journal, will be available at the meeting.  Editors R.S. Spencer and Betty Mann have compiled this issue so that it highlights Hyde County’s military involvement in and records from the War of 1812.  Included are muster rolls, payment of services forms, bounty land warrants and pension applications.  There are also abstracts from Hyde Co., Deed Book C in the issue.

The mission of HCH&GS is to preserve and record the history of Hyde Co. and its people.  Anyone interested in the history of Hyde Co. is particularly encouraged to attend this meeting.