Orange County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States   North Carolina    Orange County

Parent County
1752--Orange County was created from Bladen, Granville and Johnston Counties. County seat: Hillsborough

Neighboring Counties

 * Alamance
 * Caswell
 * Chatham
 * Durham
 * Person

Family Histories

 * [Clendenin] White, Jo White. "Clendenin of Orange County, North Carolina: An Exercise in Southern Genealogical Problem Solving," The Genealogist, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 1985):186-190.

Military

 * Civil War Units - Confederate
 * -1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry,usually known as the Bethel Regiment.

Newspapers
North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project, North Carolina State Archives. Search full text newspapers published in Hillsboro.

Vital Records
Yearbooks


 * UNC-Chapel Hill: 1890-1978
 * Orange County students at NC colleges - via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Family History Centers

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

Web Sites

 * NCGenWeb: Orange County - part of the USGenWeb Project