How do you tell the story of your family when there are no photographs...no letters...no diaries... Courtesy NYPL Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?805110 The first thing I did was to look up my critical dates in historical newspapers available online. The first was the day Isaac Carter and his siblings appeared as orphans in the Craven County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Monday, December 12, 1853. On the very day that Isaac, Nancy, Annanias and Zach were bound as apprentices to William Temple there was a celebration in New York City. It was the seventeenth anniversary of the historic Colored Orphans Asylum at Hope Chapel, Broadway. Later in the week, I remembered how my New England Ancestors research conducted in the 1990s led me to interesting details uncovered in Estate Inventories. I decided to go to FamilySearch.org and look at some Craven County Estate Inventories to see if I could unearth anything related to my husband'