Let’s Talk North Carolina Genealogy - Season 3: Episode 10

From NC Summer Series YouTube channel: "Join hosts Renate Yarborough Sanders and Taneya Y. Koonce in the vibrant, fun-paced genealogy education series as they, along with featured guest presenters, explore various topics of interest to genealogist researching ancestry in the Tar Heel state. In this episode, Martha Hartley, Director of Moravian Research and Co-Chair of the Hidden Town Project at Old Salem Museums & Gardens shares information about the origin of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the Wachovia Tract, which the Moravian Church created in the 1750s. Moravian archival records tell us much about the past, and the Hidden Town Project is a research-driven initiative to identify people of African descent, connect family relationships, and understand their life within the white Moravian world."