| Title | Format | Description |
| Abstract of North Carolina Wills [1663-1760] | Book | This invaluable work of reference contains abstracts of every will found in the office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina. While it covers the period 1663 to 1760, it does contain a few later wills. The work is arranged alphabetically according to the name of the testator. The abstracts give the name of the testator, place of residence, names of wife, children, legatees, witnesses, and probate officers, names of plantations mentioned, and remarkable items or noteworthy passages in wills. The extensive 200-page index contains all the names mentioned in the will abstracts--nearly 20,000! An appendix containing indexes to each of the will books is yet another outstanding feature of this monumental work. |
| Colonial Families of the United States of America | CD | This CD contains images of the pages of all seven volumes of George Mackenzie's celebrated Colonial Families of the United States of America, an encyclopedic collection of early American genealogies and family histories. More than thirteen years in preparation, Colonial Families treats only those families who trace their ancestry back to the Colonial Period (1607-1776). Ranging from three or four pages to ten or twenty pages or more, each family history article gives the British or European pedigree of the colonial ancestor, followed by a listing of his descendants--generation by generation--up to the time of writing, giving names, birth dates, dates of marriage and death, places of residence, occupation, and a variety of other matter. Also included in the articles are illustrations of coats of arms associated with the families. |
Death Notices from Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1799-1825 | $ (14 day Free trial); database | - |
Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1826-1845 | $ (14 day Free trial); database | - |
Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1846-1893 | $ (14 day Free trial); database | - |
| Early North Carolina Settlers | CD | Consists of numerous volumes of marriage records, death records, land records, historical sketches, and biographies, and names some 200,000 individuals who lived in North Carolina during the 1700s and 1800s. Resources include biographical sketches of early settlers and prominent families as well as a collection of marriage and death records transcribed from newspapers, specifically, Marriage and Death Notices from Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1799-1867, by Carrie Broughton. In chronological order, this three-part work details 30,000 marriages and deaths that were noted in newspaper columns between 1799 and 1867. All data contained on the CD is accessed by a single electronic index which reduces searching to seconds. |
| Find A Grave | Free database | - |
| Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army | Book | This is a complete list of commissioned officers of the U.S. from the organization of the Army, September 29, 1789, to the year of the list's original publication in 1903, giving the officers' full names and showing their services as cadets and all services as officers or enlisted men, either in the regular or volunteer service. The heart of the work, Part II, an alphabetical listing of the officers, runs to some 60,000 entries. Each entry contains a brief paragraph on the officer giving his state or country where born, state from which originally appointed, date of induction, rank, date of discharge, promotions, medals, battles participated in, and, in about a fifth of the entries, date of death after leaving the Army. |
| Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Free database | - |
| Known Military Dead During the War of 1812 | Book | The compiler surveyed the records of the National Archives, as well as many of the archives of the eighteen states in which fatalities were recorded. The end result is an authoritative list of some 3,500 known military dead of the War of 1812. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged, give the name of the deceased, his rank, the name of his company or branch of service, his date of death, and an indication as to whether the individual died in battle or as a prisoner of war. |
| Lynching Victims in America | Free database | - |
| Navy Widows' Certificates | $ (7 day Free trial); database | Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War and Later Navy Veterans, 1861-1910 |
North Carolina Death Collection, 1908-2004 | $ (14 day Free trial); database | An index to deaths that occurred in the State of North Carolina, USA, between 1908 and 2004. The following information is included in this database: name of deceased, death date, death place (usually a county), age at time of death, gender, race. |
| North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register | Book | In its 1,760 pages the Register bears reference to no fewer than 50,000 North Carolina settlers. Chief among its contents we find abstracts of land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths, marriages, wills, petitions, military records (including a list of North Carolina Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line, 1775-1782), licenses, and oaths. |
| North Carolina Wills, 1665-1900 | CD | Originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, the four titles reproduced on this CD name approximately 135,000 individuals who are cited in wills, administrations, and inventories recorded in the probate records of North Carolina between 1665 and 1900. Probate records are among the very best genealogical sources because they provide "proof" of family relationships. Accessed by a single electronic index, the four titles on this CD are as follows: North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index, 1665-1900; Abstract of North Carolina Wills, 1663-1760; An Abstract of North Carolina Wills...1760-1800; and North Carolina Wills and Inventories. |
| Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers | CD | Images of the pages of all 27 volumes of the Roll of Honor as well as The Unpublished Roll of Honor. These books reference the names of over 200,000 Union soldiers who were buried in national cemeteries, soldiers' lots, and garrison cemeteries. The Roll of Honor is the only official memorial to the Union dead ever published, and it remains the most comprehensive source of information on Civil War fatalities. Originally compiled by the U.S. Quartermaster's Department, it was published volume by volume as battlefield sites were surveyed, graves exhumed, and bodies identified and reburied. Information given includes the soldier's name, rank, regiment, company, date of death, and place of burial. For convenience, a name index to all 27 volumes and The Unpublished Roll of Honor is included. |
| Service Personnel Buried at Sea During World War II | $ (7 day Free trial) database | - |
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