Wake County Genealogy
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Wake Countywide Sources
1790 Federal Census for Wake County, Ver. 2 USGenWeb Archives
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census Records
1790-1940 U.S. Census Archives
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census World Vital Records
1800 Census Index for Wake County USGenWeb Archives
1800 Federal Census Index for Wake County USGenWeb Archives
1830 Census Index for Wake County USGenWeb Archives
1840 Census Index for Wake County USGenWeb Archives
1850 Census Index for Wake County USGenWeb Archives
1850 Federal Census for Wake County USGenWeb Archives
1913-present North Carolina Birth Certificates (order here) Archives
1930-present North Carolina Death Certificates (order here) Archives
Abstracts of the early deeds of Wake County, North Carolina, 1785-1802 Family History Library
Administrators' bonds (1941-1950), and guardian bonds (1910-1916) Family History Library
Administrators' bonds, 1868-1941 Family History Library
Appointment of executors and guardians, 1878-1951 Family History Library
Ashe, Lincoln, Polk, Wake, Wilkes counties, North Carolina and Charlottesville, Virginia Civil War papers, ca.1859-1903 Family History Library
BillionGraves Cemetery Records Index Family Search
Biography of a country church Family History Library
Cemeteries of Nash County, North Carolina (and surrounding area) : volume 1 Family History Library
Chas. Emerson's North Carolina Tobacco Belt Directory : Embracing the Counties of Alamance, Durham, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford
Church book of the Baptist Church at Shady Grove, 1823-1852 Family History Library
Church records, 1825-1938 (Middle Creek Primitive Baptist Church (Wake County, North Carolina)) Family History Library
Church records, 1840-1859 (Mt. Vernon Baptist Church (Wake County, North Carolina)) Family History Library
Church records, 1850-1920 (New Light Baptist Church (New Light Township, North Carolina)) Family History Library
Church records, 1884-1914 (Stony Hill Baptist Church (Wake County, North Carolina)) Family History Library
Church records, 1884-1922 (Wake Union Baptist Church (Wake County, North Carolina)) Family History Library
Confederate deaths and burials in North Carolina Family History Library
Conference minutes and history, 1889-1935 (Cross Roads Baptist Church (Wake County, North Carolina)) Family History Library
Criminal minute docket, 1942-1949 Family History Library
Death certificates (Wake County, North Carolina), 1900-1909 Family History Library
Dowers, 1879-1953; index to dowers, 1801-1944 Family History Library
Election returns (Wake County, North Carolina), 1790-1938 Family History Library
Estate indexes, ca.1858-1958 [Wake County, North Carolina] Family History Library
Final settlements and accounts of estates, 1883-1950 Family History Library
Find A Grave Gravestone, Tombstone, and Memorial Photo Collection World Vital Records
General index to executors and administrators, 1920-1959; inventories of executors and administrators, 1891-1900 Family History Library
Granville and Wake Co., North Carolina school records, 1825, 1840-1878, 1893, 1903-1904 Family History Library
Guardian bonds, 1858-1957 Family History Library
Guardian docket (Wake County, North Carolina), 1817-1828 Family History Library
Guardians' accounts (Wake County, North Carolina), 1878-1939 Family History Library
Hillsborough District, North Carolina : Superior Court minutes, 1768-1798 Family History Library
History of Wake County, North Carolina : with sketches of those who have most influenced its development Family History Library
Index to land entries : Beaufort Co, NC (1778-1795); Johnston Co, NC (1778-1805); Wake Co, NC (1778-1846) and land warrants, Johnston Co, NC (1737-1763) Family History Library
Index to minute docket, Probate Court (Wake County, North Carolina), 1878-1880 Family History Library
Index, and special proceedings, 1879-1947 Family History Library
Judgement dockets, 1868-1950 Family History Library
Key to grant locations on Wake County map Family History Library
Land entries, 1778-1794 Family History Library
List of persons paying poll tax (Wake County, North Carolina), 1891-1918 Family History Library
Marriage bonds ca. 1770-1868, Wake County, North Carolina Family History Library
Marriage records (Wake County, North Carolina), 1830-1958 Family History Library
Marriages of Wake County, North Carolina, 1770-1868 Family History Library
Minute docket, 1877-1944; civil minute docket, 1944-1949 Family History Library
Minutes and register of members, 1857-1965 (Wake Chapel Christian Church (Wake County, North Carolina)) Family History Library
Minutes, 1921-1940; divorces, 1947-1950 Family History Library
Minutes, 1936-1940 Family History Library
Negro cohabitation records (Wake County, North Carolina), 1866 Family History Library
North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000
North Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964 Family Search
North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975
North Carolina Death Collection, 1908-2004
North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994 Family Search
North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930 Family Search
North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994 Family Search
North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979 Family Search
North Carolina Standard 1834-1870 Family History Library
North Carolina and Virginia school rolls, 1853-1867 Family History Library
North Carolina warrants, surveys and related documents, ca. 1735-1957 Family History Library
North Carolina, Wake County Marriage Records 1950 to 2008 Archives
North Carolina, Wake County Marriage Records, 1950 to October 2008 Archives
Orders' and decrees' docket, 1878-1949 Family History Library
Partition of land, 1879-1928 Family History Library
Permanent registration of voters (Wake County, North Carolina), 1904-1906 Family History Library
Pre-1914 cemetery inscription survey, Wake Co. Family History Library
Record books of wills, inventories, settlements of estates (1771-1902), and, Indexes to wills and divisions of land (1770-1946) Family History Library
Record of Federal direct taxes collected (Wake County, North Carolina), 1865 Family History Library
Record of deeds, 1785-1936 : Index, 1785-1959 Family History Library
Records of sales by mortgagees, trustees, and executors, 1916-1940 Family History Library
Register of members, 1869-1919 (Methodist Church. Millbrook Circuit (Wake County, North Carolina)) Family History Library
Research triangle metro map, North Carolina : including Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park, Cary, Ca rrboro, Hillsborough, Garner, Apex, Wake Forest, Morrisville, and parts of Chatham County Family History Library
School records (Wake County, North Carolina), 1856, 1871-1939 Family History Library
School register District 5, Wake County, North Carolina, 1893-1901 Family History Library
Tax records (Wake County, North Carolina), 1781-1939 Family History Library
The Heritage of Wake County, North Carolina, 1983 Family History Library
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 Family Search
Wake County, North Carolina : [map of land grants to early settlers in present Wake County, 1739-1820] Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina : its resources, its products, and its people Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina alien registration, 1927-1940 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina divorce records, ca. 1831-1952 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina jury tickets, lists of jurors, list of jurors sworn and empaneled, 1893-1931, 1939 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina land entries, 1778-1846 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina land ownership map, [1870] Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina marriage bonds Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina marriage bonds, 1770-1825 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina marriage licenses, ca. 1852-1930 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina marriage records, 1781-1867 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina naturalization records, ca. 1821-1908, 1937 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina, abstracts of wills, inventories, and settlements of estates Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina, census and tax lists abstracts, 1830 and 1840 Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina, county court minutes Family History Library
Wake County, North Carolina, voter registration records, for 1902, 1904 and 1906 : listing voter and their ancestor covered by the (the Grandfather Clause), the voter registration act of 1902 Family History Library
Wake, capital county of North Carolina Family History Library
Wills and estate papers (Hillsborough District), 1772-1806 Family History Library
Wills and estate papers (Wake County), 1663-1978 Family History Library
More Wake County records are available on the statewide page