Randolph County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States   North Carolina    Randolph County

Guide to Randolph County, North Carolina ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

County Courthouse
Randolph County Courthouse Asheboro, NC 27203 Phone: 336-318-6960 * Register of Deeds has birth and death records from 1913 * Marriage records from 1800 and land records * Clerk Superior Court has divorce and court records * Probate records from 1786

Parent County
1779--Randolph County was created from Guilford County. County seat: Asheboro

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating North Carolina county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation North Carolina County Boundary Maps" (1664-1965) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
Many court records are missing. For a list of record loss in North Carolina counties see: North Carolina Counties with Burned Courthouses

Neighboring Counties

 * Alamance
 * Chatham
 * Davidson
 * Guilford
 * Montgomery
 * Moore

Cemeteries

 * Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church, Trinity, NC
 * Randolph County cemeteries at BillionGraves.com

Baptist

 * Sandy Creek. Founded 1755. Originally located in Guilford County.

Family Histories

 * [German] German, John L. "Finding the Father of David German of North Carolina and Shelby County, Indiana," The American Genealogist, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Apr. 1993):87-94. Digital version at American Ancestors ($).

Land
The Randolph County, North Carolina Register of Deeds has deed records dating back to the 1780s. For example, typing in book 1 with no page number yields a listing of pages of book 1, even though the site indicates only books 1047-1173 are available. Images with page 0 are book index pages.

www.randrod.com/Historical.asp

SOME INDEX POINTS. The deeds are not in strict order by date.

Book 4 starts about 1787.

Book 5 starts about 1790. It begins with an index. Book 6 starts about 1794.

Book 7 starts about 1795.

Book 8 starts about 1797.

Book 9 starts about 1799. No index.

Book 10 starts about 1802. No index.

Book 12 starts about 1807. No index.

''Update as of 31 March 2014 :
 * The Randolph historical deeds site requires Sun Microsystems Java. If you use the Foxfire browser, Java 7 may refuse to display records. It might be necessary to download Java SE6. This site is helpful: http://www.oldapps.com/java.php. Because Firefox is 32 bit even on a 64-bit computer, you will have to download 32-bit Java. Update 45 works. Click through all warnings when installing.


 * Preliminary: Run javacpl.exe, the Java control panel and set it not to update automatically and to display the control panel.


 * On visiting www.randrod.com/Historical.asp you will receive warnings from Java. Click through all of them. If the display balks during a viewing session restart the browser. When you are through with the old version of Java you might want to uninstall it for security reasons.''

Local Histories

 * Randolph County, 1779-1979 (1980)

Civil War
Civil War Confederate units from this county include:
 * 1861 - 1865 at FamilySearch.org — index and images
 * 1861 - 1865 at FamilySearch.org — index and images


 * -2nd Battalion, North Carolina Infantry
 * - 1st Brigade, North Carolina Reserves, Company F :- 1st Regiment, North Carolina Junior Reserves, Company F :- 2nd Battalion, North Carolina Infantry, Company F :- 6th Regiment, North Carolina Senior Reserves, Company A :- 6th Regiment, North Carolina Senior Reserves, Company D :- 6th Regiment, North Carolina Senior Reserves, Company I

Probate

 * Pre-1790 - Pre-1790 Wills stored at the North Carolina State Archives are online - free. Website tips.


 * 1773-1964 - have been digitized by FamilySearch - free.

Vital Records
Randolph County Register of Deeds

Birth Records

 * Pre-1916 - Randolph County Births Before 1916 at USGenWeb - free.
 * 1800 - 2000 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1866 - 1964 at FamilySearch.org — index

Death Records

 * 1898 - 1994 at FamilySearch.org — index and images
 * 1908 - 2004 North Carolina Death Indexes 1908-2004 at Ancestry.com — index $
 * 1909-1975 North Carolina Death Certificates 1909-1975 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1931 - 1994 at FamilySearch.org — index

Divorce Records

 * 1958 - 2004North Carolina Divorce Index 1958-2004 at Ancestry.com — index $

Marriage Records

 * 1741 - 2004 North Carolina Marriage Index 1741-2004 at Ancestry.com — index $
 * 1759 - 1979 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1762 - 1969 at FamilySearch.org — index and images

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Asheboro North Carolina Family History Center

Web Sites

 * Randolph County, NC History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Genealogy Inc)
 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.