North Carolina Genealogy at Ancestry

Ancestry is the largest provider of genealogy data online. The billions of records they provide have advanced genealogy online beyond imagination just a decade ago. The following is but a small sample of what they provide for North Carolina genealogy at Ancestry. While some of these databases are free, many require a subscription. You can try a 14 day free trial and see if you can find any of your North Carolina genealogy at Ancestry!

North Carolina Genealogy Databases

Subscription May be Required

• Ancestry Free Trial

North Carolina Statewide Genealogy at Ancestry

• Abstract of North Carolina wills compiled from original and recorded wills in the office of the secretary of state
• Abstract of North Carolina Wills [1663-1760]
• An Abstract of North Carolina Wills
• Branson’s North Carolina business directory : containing facts, figures, names and locations, revised and corrected annually .
• Carolina memories
• Cyclopedia of eminent and representative men of the Carolinas of the nineteenth century
• Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830
• Guide book of N.W. North Carolina : containing historical sketches of the Moravians in North Carolina, a description of the cou
• Historical Sketches of North Carolina from 1584 to 1851
• Historical Sketches of North Carolina from 1584 to 1851, Vol. II
• Historical sketches of North Carolina, from 1584 to 1851 : compiled from original records, official documents and traditional s
• History of the German settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina.
• Index to the colonial and state records of North Carolina covering volumes i-xxv : published under the supervision of the trust
• Industrial directory and reference book of the state of North Carolina
• Lives of distinguished North Carolinians with illustrations and speeches
• Narratives of early Carolina, 1650-1708
• North Carolina Census, 1790-1890
• North Carolina Disciples of Christ : a history of their rise and progress, and of their contribution to their general brotherho
• North Carolina Divorce Index, 1958-2004
• North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, 1975-1984–Consolidated Index
• North Carolina Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790.
• North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. I
• North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. II
• North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. III
• North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina
• North Carolina schools and academies, 1790-1840 : a documentary history
• North Carolina Taxpayers, 1679-1790. Vol. 2
• North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786
• North Carolina Will Abstracts, 1660-1790
• North Carolina Will Abstracts, 1760-1800
• North Carolina Wills
• North Carolina Wills and Inventories
• North Carolina Wills and Inventories
• North Carolina wills and inventories : copied near original and recorded wills and inventories in the office of the secretary
• North Carolina, Abstract of Wills, c. 1760-1800 : supplementing Grimes’ Abstract of North Carolina wills, 1663-1760
• North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000
• North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975
• North Carolina, Death Collection, 1908-2004
• North Carolina, Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
• North Carolina, Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
• North Carolina, Naturalization Records, 1872-1996
• North Carolina, State Census, 1784-1787
• North Carolina, the Old North State and the new
• Ray’s index and digest to Hathaway’s North Carolina historical and genealogical register : with genealogical notes and annota
• Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina and eminent North Carolinians
• Ship Passenger Lists to the Carolinas: Miscellaneous Ships
• Sketches of North Carolina, historical and biographical : illustrative of the principles of a portion of her early settlers
• State census of North Carolina, 1784-1787
• The Moravians in North Carolina : an authentic history
• Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800
• Web: North Carolina, Find A Grave Index, 1729-2011
• Western North Carolina, historical and biographical…
• William Byrd’s Histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina

North Carolina Military at Ancestry

• A History of Cabarrus County in the Wars (Indexed)
• A history of Cabarrus County in the wars.
• An account of the assassination of loyal citizens of N.C. for having served in the Union Army which took place at Kingston
• Confederate memoirs : Alamance County troops of the War Between the States, 1861-1865.
• Currituck County [North Carolina] Eighteenth Century Tax & Militia Records
• Historical collections of the Georgia chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution
• Mecklenburg in the Revolution, 1740-1783 : written in honor of the Sons of the American Revolution, upon the occasion of their
• Muster rolls of the soldiers of the War of 1812 : detached from the Militia of North Carolina in 1812 and 1814
• North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers
• North Carolina Volunteers, Spanish American War
• North Carolina, 1780-’81 : being a history of the invasion of the Carolinas by the British Army under Lord Cornwallis in 1780-
• Revolutionary service of Col. John Walker and family
• Roster of Confederate soldiers in the War Between the States
• Roster of North Carolina troops in the war between the states
• Roster of soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution : with an appendix containing a collection of miscellaneous r
• Roster of the North Carolina volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898-1899
• Sketches of Western North Carolina Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties
• The Catawba soldier of the Civil War
• The last ninety days of the war in North-Carolina
• The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution
• The narrative of Colonel David Fanning : (A Tory in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain): giving an account of his adventu
• U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947

Miscellaneous North Carolina at Ancestry

• A historical sketch of New Hope Church, in Orange County, N.C.
• A history of Alamance Church, 1762-1918
• A history of Grassy Creek Baptist Church from its foundation to 1880 : with biographical sketches of its pastors and ministers
• A history of Mary Potter School, Oxford, North Carolina
• A name index
• A romance of education : a narrative including recollections and other facts connected with Greensboro College
• A Scotch-Irish neighborhood
• A short history of Hickory Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1844-1935
• Address delivered by Charles H. Armfield, at the laying of the corner-stone of Iredell County’s court house, Statesville, N.C.
• Among deserving girls in the South
• An historical address delivered in Saint Matthew’s Church, Hillsboro, N.C., on Sunday, August 24, 1924
• Aunt Sally, or, The cross the way to freedom : a narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams,
• Biography of James Patton
• Brief history of the organization of Memorial Primitive Baptist Church, Stem, N.C., December 31, 1923.
• Chronicles of the Cape Fear River
• Church year book, history and directory of Stoney Creek (1776), Shiloh (1913), and Burlington Second (1913).
• Col. J.H. Wheeler’s lecture on the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence : delivered at Charlotte, on the 24th of May, 1875,
• Davidson College : intimate facts
• Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. I: (North Carolina Yearly Meeting)
• First Baptist Church, Charlotte, N. C., 1832-1916
• Fisher’s River (North Carolina) scenes and characters
• Genealogical records from Mrs. Otis O. Fleming
• Graveyard register of Friedland Moravian Church, Forsyth County, N.C.
• Guilford’s Scotch-Irish
• Happy Valley, history and genealogy
• Historical sketch of Geneva Presbyterian Church, Granville County, North Carolina, 1833-1933
• History of the church of God, from the creation to A. D. 1885 : including especially the history of the Kehukee Primitive Bapti
• History of the First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, N.C.
• History of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, North Carolina, 1824-1945
• History of the Fisher’s River Primitive Baptist Association from its organization, in 1832, to 1904
• Hope Moravian Church records
• In memoriam, John Barnett Smith, November 26, 1857 [i.e. 1827], February 2, 1906
• In memoriam, Rev. Mr. George McNeil, 1720-1805, delivered June 7, 1905
• Joel Lane, pioneer and patriot
• Lewis grave yard with mention of some early settlers along Fifth Creek, Iredell County, N.C.
• Life and travels of Addison Coffin
• Memorial address of A. Nixon
• Memories of Davidson College
• Old days in Chapel Hill. : Being the life and letters of Cornelia Phillips Spencer
• Presentation of portrait of Governor Benjamin Smith to the state of North Carolina
• Proceedings of the fifty-fifth communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, F.A.A.M.
• Reminiscences of the past sixty years
• St. Andrew’s Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
• St. Peter’s Church, Charlotte, N.C.
• The discoveries of John Lederer
• The history of Alamance …
• The history of Hopewell Presbyterian Church for 175 years from the assigned date of its organization, 1762
• The history of Steele Creek Church, Mecklenburg, N.C.
• The Memorabilia of fifty years, 1877 to 1927
• The Southern Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church
• Thoughts about things I love
• West Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• Yadkin College, 1856-1924 : a historic sketch

North Carolina County Genealogy at Ancestry

• 1812 tax list of Surry County, North Carolina
• A brief history of Alamance County, North Carolina
• A history of New Hanover County : and the lower Cape Fear region : 1723-1800
• A history of Rowan County, North Carolina
• A history of Watauga County, North Carolina : with sketches of prominent families
• A short history of Cabarrus County and Concord, yesterday and today
• Abstracts of Early Wills 1763-1790 (1749-1790), Mecklenburg County North Carolina
• Abstracts of Wills and Other Records, Currituck and Dare Counties, North Carolina (1663-1850)
• Abstracts of wills recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1752-1800 : and (202 marriages not shown in the Orange County mar
• Annals of Caldwell County
• Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina : containing interesting and authentic facts of Lincoln County history through the yea
• Annals of progress : the story of Lenoir County and Kinston, North Carolina
• Anson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of Wills & Estates, 1749-1795
• Bute County, North Carolina Court Minutes, 1767-79
• Bute County, North Carolina: Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1767-1779
• Caswell County, NC Will Books, 1777-1843; 1784 Tax List; and Guardians’ Accounts, 1794-1819
• Centennial history of Alamance County, 1849-1949
• Centennial history of Davidson County, North Carolina
• Centennial of Haywood County and its county seat, Waynesville, N.C.
• Chatham County, 1771-1971
• Chowan County, North Carolina Cross Index to Deeds – Grantees 1696-1878 Vol B
• Colonial Granville County and its people : loose leaves from “The lost tribes of North Carolina”
• Davidson County, economic and social
• Economic and social history of Chowan County, North Carolina, 1880-1915
• Families of Cabarrus County North Carolina 1792-1815
• Forsyth County
• Forsyth County, economic and social : a laboratory study at the University of North Carolina, Department of Rural Social Econom
• Forsyth County, North Carolina
• Historical papers on Cabarrus County, North Carolina
• Historical sketches of Wilkes County
• History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976
• History of Buncombe County, North Carolina
• History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina
• History of Halifax County
• History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte from 1740 to 1903
• History of Mecklenburg County medicine
• History of North Carolina
• History of North Carolina
• History of Pender County, North Carolina
• History of Perquimans County : as compiled from records found there and elsewhere : abstracts of deeds from 1681 through the Re
• History of Surry County, or, Annals of northwest North Carolina
• History of Watauga County, North Carolina 1849-1949 : and, History of Appalachian State Teachers College, 1899-1949
• List of taxable property in the county of Rowan, North Carolina, anno 1778
• Lumley-Lumbley extracts from the Wake County, North Caroline tax lists, circa 1791-1867
• Marriage records of Duplin County, North Carolina
• Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868
• Marriages of Chatham County, North Carolina, 1772-1868
• Marriages of Granville County, North Carolina, 1753-1868
• Marriages of Johnston County, North Carolina, 1762-1868
• Marriages of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 1783-1868
• Marriages of Orange County, North Carolina, 1779-1868
• Marriages of Rowan County, North Carolina 1753-1868
• Marriages of Rutherford County, North Carolina, 1779-1868
• Marriages of Surry County, North Carolina 1779-1868
• Marriages of Wilkes County, North Carolina 1778-1868
• Orange County, 1752-1952
• Person County, North Carolina Compilations, 1792-1823
• Person County, North Carolina Deed Books 1792-1825
• Person County, North Carolina Marriage Records, 1792-1868
• Records of Granville County
• Records of Jones County, North Carolina, 1779-1868 Vol. I
• Reminiscences of Randolph County
• Richmond County records, 1692-1704
• Sketches of Major General Thomas Lloyd of Orange County, North Carolina and some of his descendants
• Sketches of Pitt County : a brief history of the county, 1704-1910 : illustrations and maps
• Story of the counties of North Carolina with other data : as printed in The orphan’s friend and masonic journal, Oxford, N.C.
• The Curetons of Lancaster Co., S.C.
• The Finger family of Lincoln County, N.C.
• The history of Guilford County, North Carolina
• The history of Mecklenburg County from 1740 to 1900
• The Love family of Gadsden County, Florida : descendants of Alexander Love who lived “on the side of the water called Drownding
• The McLendons of Anson County
• The Statesville Daily Record presents pictorially Iredell County, North Carolina, … Statesville, North Carolina
• Tombstone records of St. John’s Lutheran Graveyard, Cabarrus County, North Carolina from the 18th century to June, 1936 ;
• Tombstone records Stanly County, North Carolina, Albemarle, N.C.
• Tombstone records, Stanley County, N.C., Albemarle, County seat
• Tryon County, North Carolina Court Minutes, 1769-79
• Web: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Birth Index, 1865-2012
• Granville County, North Carolina records

North Carolina Town Genealogy at Ancestry

• Agricultural Mecklenburg and industrial Charlotte : social and economic
• Asheville and Buncombe County
• Biographical sketches of the early settlers of the Hopewell section : and reminiscences of the pioneers and their descendants b
• Burlington Daily Times (Burlington, North Carolina)
• Burlington Daily Times News (Burlington, North Carolina)
• Burlington News (Burlington, North Carolina)
• Capture of Fort Hamby
• Charlotte in picture and prose
• Charlotte, North Carolina Directory, 1890
• Colored Charlotte : published in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the freedom of the Negro in the county of Mecklenb
• Daily Independent (Kannapolis, North Carolina)
• Daily Times News (Burlington, North Carolina)
• Death notices from the Mecklenburg Jeffersonian, Charlotte, N.C., 1841-1849
• Death records from the files of the Greensboro, N.C. Patriot, 1826-1899
• Early social life in Edgecombe : also, Early history of Edgecombe, and A Tarborean’s experience abroad
• Forsyth : a county on the march
• Fort Dobbs, historical sketch
• Founders and builders of Greensboro, 1808-1908… : fifty sketches
• Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, North Carolina)
• Greensboro, 1808-1904 : facts, figures, traditions and reminiscences
• High Point, N.C. : a brief summary of its manufacturing enterprises, together with sketches of those who have built them
• Historical address … delivered July 3, 1949 at Beaver Creek, North Carolina
• In ancient Albemarle
• Index to memoirs filed in Salem Moravian Archives from 17 -19 , Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Landmark, The (Statesville, North Carolina)
• Life at Oxford
• List of internments in Salem Moravian (North Carolina) grave yard
• Marriage and Death Notices from Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1799-1825
• Marriage and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1826-1845
• Marriage and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1846-1867
• Marriage and death notices in Raleigh register and North Carolina State gazette, 1846-1893
• Marriage notices from the Charlotte Journal, Charlotte, N.C., July 3, 1835-December 7, 1851
• Marriage notices from the Western Democrat, Charlotte, N.C., 1853-1870
• Marriage records from the files of the Greensboro, N.C. Patriot, 1826-1899
• North Carolina City Directories
• Old Salem, North Carolina
• Progressive Greensboro
• Road building and broad tires : a brief history of Mecklenburg’s good roads together with some arguments in favor of broad tir
• Robesonian (Lumberton, North Carolina)
• Salisbury, North Carolina, Salisbury National Cemetery, 1863-2010
• Sketches of Charlotte : the Queen City of the Old North State and Mecklenburg, the Banner County
• Statesville Daily Record (Statesville, North Carolina)
• Statesville Landmark (Statesville, North Carolina)
• Statesville Record (Statesville, North Carolina)
• Statesville Record Landmark (Statesville, North Carolina)
• The Daily Times News (Burlington, North Carolina)
• The Greensboro bar : pictures and biographical sketches of its members, including practicing attorneys and judges, 1939.
• The High Point Enterprise (High Point, North Carolina)
• The history of the Baptists of Greensboro, N. C., 1850-1926
• The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775, and the lives of its signers
• The Mecklenburg signers and their neighbors
• Weekly Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina)