An 1867 law allowed that males 21+ years of age, regardless of skin color, were eligible to vote. Any surviving 1867 voter registrations are invaluable to genealogists. Please join us on Wednesday, June 3 at 7:00 PM at the OWASA Community Center, 400 Jones Ferry Rd, Carrboro, OR ONLINE via Zoom, to hear Diane L. Richard present Voter Registration and Beyond.
Across the country, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 implemented regulations regarding voter registration. Lists of Qualified Voters were created. These are the first lists to include the formerly enslaved, whites (who took oaths), and those who were previously designated as free persons of color. There were also additional registrations from 1902-1908 that also contain information useful to genealogical research.
Diane L Richard, MEng & MBA, Mosaic Research and Project Management (MosaicRPM), www.mosaicrpm.com, has been doing genealogy research since 1987, and in 2024, celebrated her 20th anniversary of professionally researching client ancestors while also channeling the “inner teacher” in her by sharing her knowledge via the written and spoken word. In October 2025 Diane received the newly named Helen F. M. Leary Award for Outstanding Contribution to North Carolina Genealogy, awarded by the North Carolina Genealogical Society.
As an international speaker, she has given hundreds of webinars and in-person programs (coast-to-coast and in Canada), conference presentations, workshops, and local meeting programs about the availability and richness of all kinds of records relevant and leverageable by genealogists and the strategies and tips to exploit these records and research tactics most effectively. She has appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? (Bryan Cranston episode).
She is co-founder of GenWebinars, https://genwebinars.com/, launched in May 2024, which provides direct-to-consumer live, online, in-depth, interactive genealogy webinars. She is Vice President of NC Historical Records Online (NCHRO), http://nchistoricalrecords.org/, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public access to high-quality images of original records and other related information useful to researching North Carolina history and genealogy.
She is co-founder of Tar Heel Discoveries, https://tarheeldiscoveries.com/, which offers in-person, real-time, targeted, focused research assistance leading individuals or small groups to new family discoveries at the State Archives of North Carolina & the Government & Heritage Library.
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