Forsyth County Data and Other Links

I am trying to restrict this list to sites with information specific to Forsyth or neighboring counties.
For more general NC links, see the NCGenWeb comprehensive list

GENERAL FORSYTH COUNTY SITES

• Forsyth County NCGenWeb Archives

• Forsyth County Genealogical Society.

• The Winston Salem Journal

• Trading Ford - Heart of Old Rowan, page by Ann Brownlee; not quite Forsyth County, but close enough to be of interest to Forsyth researchers.

• Forsyth County query board at Ancestry.com

• Forsyth County query board at GenForum

CENSUS AND TAX RECORDS

• 1759 Rowan County Tax List

• census township map at S-K Publications

• 1850 Forsyth County Heads of Household Project

• 1786 Surry County Taxables (present-day Forsyth)

• 1790 - 1840 Stokes County NC Federal Census (Forsyth was part of Stokes Co. until 1849)

• 1850 Davie County Heads of Household Project (neighboring county)

• 1790 Surry County NC Federal Census (neighboring county)

• 1850 Surry County Heads of Household Project (neighboring county)

• Forsyth County - 1898, a list of major businesses, attorneys, county officials

CHURCH AND CEMETERY RECORDS, OBITUARIES

• Benjamin Deardorf obituary
  From Cindy Casey

• St. Philips Church near Old Salem, the oldest standing African American church building in North Carolina and one of the oldest in the South  

• RootsWeb cemetery database
  includes 77 records for Muddy Creek (Union) Friends Cemetery, Kernersville, by Hunter B. Atkins

• Old Salem Guidebook, index to names, lookups, by Debi McGee Cundiff

• Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church at Tanglewood cemetery transcription and photos by Virginia Flesher

• Bethabara Moravian Church

• The Political Graveyard - The Political Graveyard - Forsyth County - famous and infamous people associated with Forsyth County

• Dobbs Parish Graveyard Records

• Moravian Church Genealogy Links, page by Sue Schlack. Also see Sue's lists of Moravian surnames A-L names and M-Z names. Quite a few North Carolina names are included.

• photographs of some Forsyth and Yadkin church cemeteries by Steve Binkley

DEEDS

• RAINEY family deeds
  From Cindy Casey, two deeds pertinent to the RAINEY family, dated 1858 and 1868 respectively.
  Other surnames mentioned are ALSPAUGH, BANNER, BITTIN, BURTON, CARDWELL, DABNEY, FRY, GOLDING, JONES, LASH, MAYS, MOODY, MORRIS, PEPPER, POINDEXTER, PRYER / PRYOR, STEADMON, TUTTLE

MARRIAGE RECORDS

• The Forsyth County Genealogical Society has published three books of marriage records, spanning the period from 1849 through 1889.

• More recent Forsyth Co. marriage license information can be obtained from the Forsyth Co. Register of Deeds.

• Yadkin County marriages 1867-1901, transcribed by Helen S. Wishon, Yadkinville, NC in 1999
  [downloadable pdf file]

MILITARY

• Civil War deserters
  From Cindy Casey, articles from the People's Press regarding deserters from the Forsyth Co. area. Includes many names of men arrested.

• 21st NC Troops. The web page for this Confederate re-enactment unit includes the complete rosters of all companies in the NC 21st, which was drawn from Stokes, Forsyth, Guilford and neighboring counties.

• Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

• Civil War pension applicants - from Cindy Casey

• another file of Civil War pension applicants, also from Cindy Casey
  
• Col. Joseph Winston 1892 newspaper article

• President George Washington in Salem, 1791

• The Southern Claims Commission, A little known source of genealogical information.
      This link not working - can anyone furnish an updated URL?

• Hyde County, NC US GenWeb Project
      John McGowan has posted the rosters of the companies formed during the Civil War from Hyde Co.Ê In Co. H, 33rd Regt., NCST, includes a number of soldiers from Forsyth Co.

• The Revolutionary War Battle of Shallow Ford
      Ann Brownlee's page of research on a battle in what is now Yadkin Co., October 14, 1780.

• Another page by Ann Brownlee: North Carolina in the Struggle for Independence

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FAMILY PAGES WITH FORSYTH COUNTY CONNECTIONS

• Connie Padgett has a page on the KITE and MEREDITH families. Gernie V. Kite, Sr. and his wife Pearl Meredith Kite moved to Winston-Salem in the late 1920s and have many descendants in the Forsyth county area.

• John Speight's Speight family page includes many families in the greater Winston-Salem area

• STARBUCK family page by Stephen Starbuck

• Keiger/Geiger/Kiger family page by Bill Keiger

• Teague family page by Yvonne Matlosz

• Old Broad Bay Family History Association

• The Heritage of the Hortons

• Lynnell Taylor's page includes the Pfaff family

• Sprinkle Family page by Kristy Edenfield

• Family Newsletters, page by Faye Moran, lists newsletters published for a number of family associations, including several for Forsyth families

• Granny's Genealogy page by Virginia Flesher; Flesher, Moss, and many other Forsyth County names

• Booe Family History by Ron Booe

• Bradley Tesh's web page

• Old Clemmons homeplace has colorful past by Ann Sheek

• The Craver/Graber Homepage by Karen Craver Foy

• Hauser Central

• Jeanette's House of Roots and Twigs

• Descendants of William Petticoat

• Brown-Jones-Windsor-Wolff Family Page by Paula Windsor Bennett

• Michael T. Southern's The Southern Family in N.C.

• Across the Creek from Old Salem
      This link not working - can anyone furnish an updated URL?

• Edwards Family History Homepage has connections to Forsyth County

• Harding Family Page by Frances Casstevens

• Frances also hosts The Yadkin County Country Store page

• Brenda Wyatt's FTM Site

• Jarvis Family and Other Relatives ...Over 160 Family Pages & Descendants

• Wes Patterson's Genealogy Home Page

• Marylyn Letson's List of Surnames has many NC names.

• Ginger Hulsopple's Genealogy Page

• The Family Tree by David Marshall

• 19th Century magician known as the Wizard of the Blue Ridge courtesy of Gary Hunt

• Descendants of Robert Masters

• Brown County, KS GenWeb Project Has ties to Forsyth Co.

NEARBY COUNTIES

Davidson County

Davie County

Guilford County

Iredell County

Randolph County

Rockingham County

Rowan County

Stokes County

Surry County

    Surry County Genealogical Association

Wilkes County

Yadkin County

    

Please let me know if you find a link not working

Elizabeth Harris