Robeson County, North Carolina Genealogy

United States&#160; &#160; North Carolina&#160; &#160; Robeson County Guide to Robeson County North Carolina genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.   County Courthouse Robeson County Courthouse 500 N Elm Street P O Box 22 Lumberton, NC 28358 Phone: 919-671-3044 Register of Deeds has b rec from 1913 marriage records from 1787 death records from 1915 and land records from 1799, Clerk Superior Court has divorce and court records from 1920 and probate records from 1868Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Robeson County, North Carolina. Page 512 ;. History Many free African American families moved to Robeson County from Virginia in the 1700s. Parent County 1787--Robeson County was created from Bladen County. County seat: Lumberton The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002). Boundary Changes Record Loss Many of the court records are missing. Places/Localities Populated Places Neighboring Counties <ul><li>Bladen</a> </li><li>Columbus</a> </li><li>Cumberland</a> </li><li>Dillon County, South Carolina</a> </li><li>Hoke</a> </li><li>Horry County, South Carolina</a> </li><li>Marlboro County, South Carolina</a> </li><li>Scotland</a> </li></ul> Resources <img src="/learn/wiki/en/images/6/6f/Ncrobeson.png" _fck_mw_filename="Ncrobeson.png" _fck_mw_location="right" _fck_mw_width="400" _fck_mw_type="thumb" alt="" class="fck_mw_frame fck_mw_right" style="width: 400;" /> Cemeteries <ul><li>Robeson County Cemeteries</a> - NCGenWeb Archives </li><li>Robeson County Cemeteries</a> - at Find-A-Grave.com&#160; </li></ul> Census <span class="fck_mw_template"> Church Records Baptist <ul><li>Ash Pole. Organized 1796.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">Lemuel Burkitt and Jesse Read, A Concise History of the Kehukee Baptist Association: From Its Original Rise Down to 1808 (1808), Chapter 16. Digital version at St Paul's Seminary website; &quot;Ashpole Church,&quot; North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, http://www.ncmarkers.com, accessed 22 October 2012. </li><li>First Baptist Church, Lumberton, N.C. First Baptist Church, Lumberton, North Carolina; one hundred years of Christian witnessing, 1855-1955</a> -&#160;available online via the Eastern NC Digital Library </li><li>Saddle Tree Creek. Constituted by 1788.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">George Washington Paschal, History of North Carolina Baptists, 2 vols. (1930; reprint, Gallatin, Tenn.: Church History Research and Archives, 1990), 1:491. ; Lemuel Burkitt and Jesse Read, A Concise History of the Kehukee Baptist Association: From Its Original Rise Down to 1808 (1808), Chapter 16. Digital version at St Paul's Seminary website. </li></ul> Presbyterian <ul><li>[Book]&#160;Enter into his gates&#160;: history of the First Presbyterian Church, Maxton, North Carolina, 1878-1958</a> - available online via the Eastern NC Digital Library </li><li>[Book]&#160;Year book and directory of the Rowland Presbyterian Church, Rowland, N.C</a>. -&#160;available online via the Eastern NC Digital Library </li></ul> Court Education <ul><li>Robeson County College Students</a> -&#160;a name list of students at various NC colleges with identified hometowns in the county; via NCGenWeb Yearbook Index </li><li>Flora McDonald College yearbooks</a> - from 1921-1961; via the Internet Archive </li><li>Presbyterian Junior College yearbooks</a> - from the mid 1930s - 1960s; via the Internet Archive </li><li><a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Pembroke%20State%20College--Students--Yearbooks%22&amp;sort=-date">UNC-Pembroke yearbooks</a> - from the 1940s to the 1980s; via the Internet Archive </li><li>[Book] <a href="http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/item.aspx?id=fma">Flora McDonald College</a> - published by Ralph Walter Page in 1920 </li></ul> Genealogy It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to: <ul><li>Locate publications about direct ancestors </li><li>Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family </li><li>Identify publications, to quote <a href="Elizabeth Shown Mills">Elizabeth Shown Mills</a>, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors] </li></ul> Bibliography <ul><li>[Lewis] Lewis, J.D. My Neck of the Woods: The Lewis Families of Southeastern North Carolina and Northeastern South Carolina. Little River, S.C.: J.D. Lewis, 2002. <span class="fck_mw_template"> </li></ul> Land <ul><li><a href="http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/robesondeeds.htm">Misc county deeds</a> - transcriptions submitted to the NCGenWeb Archives </li></ul> Local Histories Maps <ul><li><a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISORESTMP=results.php&amp;CISOVIEWTMP=item_viewer.php&amp;CISOMODE=grid&amp;CISOGRID=thumbnail,A,1;title,A,1;displa,A,0;publis,A,0;collec,A,0;30;date,title,none,none,none&amp;CISOBIB=mapid,A,1,N;collec,A,0,N;title,200,0,N;none,A,0,N;none,A,0,N;20;mapid,none,none,none,none&amp;CISOTHUMB=20%20(4x5);mapid,none,none,none,none&amp;CISOTITLE=20;mapid,none,none,none,none&amp;CISOHIERA=20;collec,mapid,none,none,none&amp;CISOSUPPRESS=0&amp;CISOTYPE=link&amp;CISOOP1=exact&amp;CISOFIELD1=spatia&amp;CISOBOX1=Robeson+County&amp;CISOOP2=exact&amp;CISOFIELD2=collec&amp;CISOBOX2=&amp;CISOOP3=exact&amp;CISOFIELD3=title&amp;CISOBOX3=&amp;CISOOP4=exact&amp;CISOFIELD4=CISOSEARCHALL&amp;CISOBOX4=&amp;c=exact&amp;CISOROOT=%2Fncmaps">Maps of Robeson County</a> - online map images via the NC Maps collection </li></ul> Military Civil War Civil War service men from Robeson County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies and regiments that were formed with many men from Robeson County. <dl><dd>- <a href="51st Regiment, North Carolina Militia">51st Regiment, North Carolina Militia</a>, Company F </dd></dl> Newspapers <ul><li><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/titles/places/north_carolina/Robeson">Newspapers published in Robeson County</a> &#160;- a listing of newspapers published in the county &amp; libraries that hold them; via the Library of Congress. </li><li><a href="http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/robesonnews.htm">Misc. newspaper articles</a> - submitted to the NCGenWeb Archives </li><li><a href="http://www.ncgenweb-data.com/ncnews/resultlist.php?county=robeson">Robeson County residents in the newspaper</a> - name listing of people from the county as located in misc. newspaper articles; time span varies. Articles indexed in the NC People in the Papers database. </li></ul> Probate <ul><li>Pre-1790 - <a href="http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov/BasicSearch.aspx">Pre-1790 Wills</a> stored at the North Carolina State Archives are online - free. <a href="North Carolina Probate Records#Proved_in_North_Carolina">Website tips</a>. </li></ul> <ul><li>1783-1966 - <span class="fck_mw_template"> have been digitized by FamilySearch - free. </li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/robesonwills.htm">Misc. Robeson County wills</a> - transcriptions submitted to the NCGenWeb Archives </li></ul> Taxation Vital Records Uncertified copies of vital records can be ordered for a small fee from the Register of Deeds. Please <a href="http://www.durhamcountync.gov/departments/rgds/">visit their website</a> for more information. Births <ul><li><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1675484&amp;hash=Mrd8SMocDIIen2Q83tu%252B82PRagg%253D">North Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964</a> - search this name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state; via FamilySearch </li></ul> Marriages <ul><li>1850-1944 - Robeson County Marriage Index 1850-1944 in <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/igi">International Genealogical Index</a> at FamilySearch - free.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="vr">Genealogical Society of Utah, Parish and Vital Records List (July 1998). Microfiche. Digital version at https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/f/f5/Iginorthcarolinap.pdf. </li><li><a href="http://ncgenweb.us/robeson/vital.htm">Robeson County Marriages</a> - via NCGenWeb </li><li><a href="http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/robesonmarriages.html">Misc. Robeson County Marriages</a> - submitted by users to the NCGenWeb Archives </li><li><a href="https://familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1675484&amp;hash=Mrd8SMocDIIen2Q83tu%252B82PRagg%253D">North Carolina Marriages, 1762-1979</a> - search this database of marriages from across the state - images included; via FamilySearch </li><li><a href="http://goo.gl/FsJlh">Robeson County marriages</a> - may be included throughout Carrie Broughton's 6-volume index of the Raleigh Register &amp; State Gazette newspaper (1799-1893). Marriages are listed by year and PDF files are searchable. Available on the North Carolina Digital Collections website. </li></ul> Deaths <ul><li><a href="http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/robesonobits.htm">Misc. Robeson County Obituaries</a> - via the Durham County NCGenWeb Archives </li><li><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1609799&amp;hash=Mrd8SMocDIIen2Q83tu%252B82PRagg%253D%20">North Carolina Death Certificates, 1906-1930</a> - search a statewide collection of freely available death certificates - images are included; via FamilySearch </li><li><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1675510&amp;hash=Mrd8SMocDIIen2Q83tu%252B82PRagg%253D">North Carolina Deaths &amp; Burials, 1898-1994</a> - search death records from across the state; via FamilySearch </li></ul> Societies and Libraries Family History Centers <ul><li><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Introduction to LDS Family History Centers">Introduction to LDS Family History Centers</a> </li><li><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Pembroke North Carolina Family History Center">Pembroke North Carolina Family History Center</a> </li></ul> Web Sites <ul><li><a href="http://ncgenweb.us/robeson/">Robeson County NCGenWeb</a> - free genealogy resources; part of the national USGenWeb Project </li><li><span class="fck_mw_template"> </li></ul> References <span class="fck_mw_references" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="references" /><span class="fck_mw_template"> <span class="fck_mw_template">

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