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

County Courthouse


Wake County Courthouse St Garland James Bldg 300 S Salisbury P O box 1897 Raleigh, NC 27602 Phone: 919-856-5460 1810 &amp; 1820 Census Records are missing. Registrar of Deeds has marriage and land records. Clerk of Superior Court has probate records.

Populated Places
 Towns in Wake County : [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count

Unincorporated Communities : Auburn, Bonsal, Carpenter, Chestnut Hills, Clegg, Eagle Rock, Falls, Feltonville, Forestville, Green Level, Kennebec, Lizard Lick, McCullers, Crossroads, Neuse, New Hill, Riley Hill, Shotwell, Stony Hill, Swift Creek, Willow Springs

History Timeline
Wake County is located in the Central portion of North Carolina and was named for Margaret Wake Tryon, the wife of Royal Governor William Tryon.

Raleigh, History and the Present- NCpedia, site from the North Carolina State Library

Biographies

 * [Stacy] Marvin Hendrix Stacy, 1877-1919 (1919) - a UNC administrator; full-text via the Internet Archive

Cemeteries

 * Raleigh City Cemetery
 * Cemetery Census - Wake County Cemeteries - over 300 cemeteries
 * FHL Microfilm - Pre-1914 Cemetery Inscriptions, Wake County. FHL Microfilm 882940 Item 9
 * Manuscript: Confederate deaths and burials in North Carolina. [Find in a Library]
 * Historic Oakwood Cemetery - in Raleigh, NC

Census Records

 * Census records - via Wake County NCGenWeb

Church Records

 * Wake County church Information - via NCGenWeb

Baptist
 * Cross Roads. Constituted 1792.
 * New Light Meeting House.
 * Swift Creek. Constituted 1757.

Court Records

 * Wake County court records - via NCGenWeb Archives

Genealogies

 * [Massey] Massey, William W. "Richard Massey of Bartons Creek, Wake County, North Carolina: With the Search for his Parentage," The Genealogist, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall 2004):196-227.

Land and Property Records

 * Wake County deeds - via NCGenWeb Archives

Local Histories

 * Historical Raleigh from its foundation in 1792 descriptive, biographical, educational, industrial, religious; reminiscences reviewed and carefully compiled. (1902) - full text via NC Digital Collections
 * History of Wake County, North Carolina with sketches of those who have most influenced its development (1922) - full text via the Internet Archive

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Wake County maps - more than 50 maps of the area; via the NC Maps website of the North Carolina State Library

Military Records

 * Wake County military information - via Wake County NCGenWeb
 * Wake County military records - via the NCGenWeb Archives

Revolutionary War 
 * 1779-1782 - at FamilySearch

Civil War 

Online Records
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry $
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry $
 * 1885-1953 - at FamilySearch


 * - 1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
 * - 6th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
 * - 7th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
 * - 14th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, formerly the 4th Volunteers, Company E
 * - 14th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, formerly the 4th Volunteers, Company K
 * - 1st Brigade, North Carolina Reserves, Company D
 * - 1st Regiment, North Carolina Artillery 10th Regiment Volunteers-1st Artillery, Company A
 * - 1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company I
 * - 1st Regiment, North Carolina Junior Reserves, Company D
 * - 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Junior Reserves, Company K
 * - 41st Regiment Volunteers - 3rd Cavalry, Company I
 * - 4th Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry (59th North Carolina State Troops), Company I
 * - 6th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company I
 * - 6th Regiment, North Carolina Senior Reserves, Company K

World War I 
 * 1917-1919 - at FamilySearch

World War II 
 * 1940-1948 - at FamilySearch

Newspapers

 * Wake county newspaper articles - via the NCGenWeb Archives
 * Newspapers published in Wake County - via the Library of Congress

Probate Records
Online Probate Records


 * 1660-1790 - North Carolina Will Abstracts 1660-1790 at Ancestry $
 * 1663-1979 - at FamilySearch
 * 1665-1998 - North Carolina Wills and Probate Records 1665-1998 at Ancestry $
 * 1735-1970 - at FamilySearch
 * 1760-1800 - North Carolina Will Abstracts 1760-1800 at Ancestry $
 * Pre-1790 - Pre-1790 Wake County, North Carolina Genealogy Wills stored at the North Carolina State Archives are online
 * 1771-1897 - have been digitized by FamilySearch
 * Wake County Wills and Estates - via the NCGenWeb Archives
 * Book: Wake County, North Carolina Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Settlements of Estates: 1771-1802” published in 1984 by Frances Holloway Wynne.View the index for people of interest.
 * Images of Wills, Estates and Guardianships, 1771-1782 and 1788-1794. North Carolina Pioneers ($)

School Records

 * Education page at Wake County, NCGenWeb
 * Book: History of Meredith College (1972) - by Mary Lynch Johnson; full-text online
 * Book: Vision Revisited: A History of Meredith College, 1971-1988 - by Carolyn C. Robinson; full-text online

Yearbooks 
 * Meredith College: 1904-2009
 * NC State University: 1903-2010
 * Peace College: 1902-2010
 * Wake County students at NC colleges - via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Tax Records

 * 1815 - Tax Lists, Wake County, 1815 (images) online at North Carolina Digital Collections

Vital Records

 * Uncertified copies of vital records can be ordered for a small fee from the Register of Deeds. Please visit their website for more information.

Birth

 * 1800-2000 - at FamilySearch
 * 1866-1964 - at FamilySearch

Marriage

 * 1741-2004 - North Carolina, United States Marriages at FindMyPast
 * 1741-2004 - North Carolina Marriage Index 1741-2004 at Ancestry $
 * 1759-1979 - at FamilySearch
 * 1762-1979 - at FamilySearch
 * 1763-1868 - at FamilySearch
 * 1799-1893 - Raleigh marriage and death notices from five of the area's newspapers 1799-1893 are posted at the North Carolina Libraries and State Archives website. These papers include the Raleigh Register, the North Carolina State Gazette, Daily Sentinel, Raleigh Observer and News and Observer. The notices are originally found in book form in the SLNC's 6-volume Marriage and Death notices.
 * 1830-1958 - Wake County Marriage Index 1830-1958 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch
 * Wake County marriage records - transcribed for the NCGenWeb Archives
 * Wake county, North Carolina Marriage Bonds Part 2

Death

 * 1898-1994 - at FamilySearch
 * 1906-1930 - at FamilySearch
 * 1908-2004 - North Carolina Death Indexes 1908-2004 at Ancestry $
 * 1909-1975 - North Carolina Death Certificates 1909-1975 at Ancestry $
 * 1931-1994 - at FamilySearch
 * 1900-1908 - Wake County deaths -- deceased individuals of the area as reported in various newspapers; dates range from late 1700s to 1900s.
 * 1900-1908 - Wake County Early Death Certificates,1900-1908 - images in NC County Records 1833-1970
 * Obituaries from the Cary News newspaper are included in GenealogyBank from Feb 2011 forward. ($)
 * Obituaries from the Eastern Wake News paper of Zebulon, NC, are included in GenealogyBank from Jan 2011 forward ($)

Divorce

 * 1926-1975 - at FamilySearch
 * 1958-2004 - North Carolina Divorce Index 1958-2004 at Ancestry $

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to Family History Centers
 * Apex North Carolina Family History Center
 * Raleigh North Carolina Family History Center

Libraries

 * Olivia Raney Local History Library 4016 Carya Drive Raleigh, North Carolina, 27610 Telephone Number: 919-250-1196 Website

Societies

 * Wake County Genealogical Society PO Box 17713 Raleigh, NC 27619-7713 Website
 * Wake County Historical Society PO Box 2 Raleigh, NC 27602 Website
 * Apex Historical Society PO Box 506 Apex, NC 27502 Website

Websites

 * NCGenWeb: Wake County - part of the USGenWeb Project
 * Wake County Genealogy (North Carolina Genealogy)
 * – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.