Buncombe County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States   North Carolina    Buncombe County

Parent County
1791--Buncombe County was created 5 December 1791 from Burke and Rutherford Counties. County seat: Asheville

Record Loss
1830, 1865--The courthouse fires destroyed many court records.

Neighboring Counties

 * Haywood
 * Henderson
 * Madison
 * McDowell
 * Rutherford
 * Transylvania
 * Yancey

Cemeteries

 * Buncombe County Cemetery Census

Family Histories

 * [Gash] Rising, Marsha Hoffman. "The Gash Family of Buncombe County, North Carolina: Who Was Ebenezer Gash of St. Clair County, Missouri?," The American Genealogist, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr. 1998):105-116.

Yearbooks

 * Buncombe County students at NC colleges - list via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Web Sites

 * Asheville and Buncombe County Weblog
 * Buncombe County NC GenWeb
 * Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society