Wake County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States   North Carolina    Wake County

Parent County
1771--Wake County was created from Cumberland, Johnston, and Orange Counties. County seat: Raleigh

Record Loss
1832--Several deed books were destroyed in register's office fire.

Neighboring Counties

 * Chatham
 * Durham
 * Franklin
 * Granville
 * Harnett
 * Johnston
 * Nash

Biographies

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

Cemeteries

 * NCGenWeb Wake County Archives - A-L, M-Z cemeteries
 * Find-A-Grave - Wake County cemeteries
 * Interment.net - Wake County cemeteries
 * FHL Microfilm - Pre-1914 Cemetery Inscriptions, Wake County. FHL Microfilm 882940 Item 9
 * Manusciprt: Confederate deaths and burials in North Carolina. [Find in a Library]
 * Historic Oakwood Cemetery - in Raleigh, NC

Church

 * Wake County church Information - via NCGenWeb

Court

 * Wake County court records - via NCGenWeb Archives

Education

 * 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

Family Histories

 * [Lane] Joel Lane, pioneer and patriot : a biographical sketch, including notes about the Lane family and the colonial and revolutionary history of Wake County, North Carolina
 * [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.

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

Vital Records

 * 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 theRaleigh 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.
 * NC People in the Papers - online database that includes deaths from Broughton's 6-volume Raleigh Marriage &amp; Death Notices. An ongoing project
 * Search the North Carolina Death Certificates, 1906-1930 - database includes death certificate images; via FamilySearch

Yearbooks

 * Meredith College: 1904-2009
 * NC State University: 1903-2010
 * Peace College: 1902-2010

Web Sites

 * NCGenWeb: Wake County - part of the USGenWeb Project
 * Family History Library Catalog