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US Southern Colonies Project | Reliable Sources | Sources and Resources Directory | Province of NC Team Page
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This is the Reliable Sources page for the US Southern Colonies Project, Province of North Carolina (1712-1776) Reliable Sources, which includes profiles covered by pre-1700 project requirements.
This page contains sources focused on the period 1600-1776 recommended (or warned against) by WikiTree's US Southern Colonies Project.
- Note: for resources pertaining to learning about the history of the US Southern Colonies, see: US Southern Colonies History.
- Note: for creating a citation from a website that has not been provided see citing websites. Add the link from the page that you are sourcing.
- After finding a reliable source, care must be taken to establish that the source belongs to your profile.
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Reliable Sources
Vital Records
Births
- Camin, Betty J; Camin, Edwin A, North Carolina bastardy bonds; Topics Illegitimate children,Publisher Mount Airy, N.C. : B.J. and E.A. Camin, State Library of North Carolina, 1990. link
Marriages
- North and South Carolina Marriage Records: From the Earliest Colonial Days to the Civil War by William m. Clemens. (1927. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981).
- Quaker Marriage Certificates: Pasquotank, Perquimans, Piney Woods, and Suttons Creek Monthly Meetings, North Carolina, 1677-1800 by Gwen Boyer Bjorkman. (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988).
- North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979 (FamilySearch-source citation copy/paste provided)
Deaths
Land Records
- North Carolina Land and Property Records
- Land Records, NC and TN, 1600-1959
- David M. Corkle, compiler, North Carolina Land Grant Images and Data, 1663 to 1960, State Archives of North Carolina (2015).
- North Carolina Land Grants, Link
- North Carolina Manuscript and Archive Systems, North Carolina State Archives, Search
Probate Records
- North Carolina Wills, 1722-1752 and North Carolina Wills, 1755-1773
- North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, ($), index and images, incomplete.
- Shields, Ruth Herndon, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina 1752-1800, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore (1957, 1966, 1972). link
- Grimes, J. Bryan, North Carolina Wills & Inventories, Copied from Original & Recorded Wills & Inventories in the Office of Secretary of State (1912). Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Nola Duffy. link
- NCGENWEB Project Wills by County
Tax Records
- North Carolina Taxation Link
- North Carolina Early Tax records- Images of county tax lists: For various years and counties starting in1720. North Carolina Digital Collections Link
Other Records
- some of these may need moving to the Resources / History page
- "Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters"
- State Archives of North Carolina Family Records Collection
- State Archives of North Carolina, <https://archives.ncdcr.gov/doc>, Discover Online Catalog (DOC)
- Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill
- USGenWeb for North Carolina
- Lewis, J.D., The American Revolution in North Carolina, Link
- DAR Database, Link
- Formation of North Carolina Counties
- NCPedia
- Saunders, William Laurence, The colonial records of North Carolina, by North Carolina; Saunders, William Laurence, 1835-1891; North Carolina. Trustees of the public libraries
- Colonial and State Records of North Carolina GREAT resource for public records, census etc through 1790.
Reliable Sources with conditions
- North Carolina Patriotic Graves Registery, NSSAR
Biographical Compilations
- Anson County, North Carolina Genealogy
- Ancestry.com ($): History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-> Anson county History, North Carolina
- Roanoke
- The colonial records of North Carolina, by North Carolina; Saunders, William Laurence, 1835-1891; North Carolina. Trustees of the public libraries
- Carolina Families: A Bibliography of Books about North and South Carolina Families by Donald M. Hehir. (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994).
- History of the German Settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina: From the Earliest Period of the Colonization of the Dutch, German and Swiss Settlers to the Close of the First Half of the Present Century by G. D. Bernheim. (Philadelphia: Lutheran Book Store, 1872).
- Scots to Colonial North Carolina Before 1775
- Salley, Alexander Samuel, Narratives of Early Carolina, C. Scribner's Sons (1911); predominantly historical; includes some family histories.
- Wheeler, John H. (John Hill), 1806-1882, Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina and eminent North Carolinians
Surname / Family-Specific Compilations
- Unknown Author, Culpepper Connections, The Culpepper Family History Site
- Scots to Colonial North Carolina Before 1775
- Stephen Jackson of Anson Co., North Carolina and Early Craven Co., Cheraw District and Chesterfield Co., South Carolina by Bob Mitchell
Emigration / Passenger Lists
Unreliable Sources
Examples of Sources that Provide Uncertain Information
Colony Neutral / Multiple Colonies
- The following sources should not be cited and are subject to removal from project-managed profiles if found. If these are the only sources on a profile, please replace it with something better prior to removal.
- Yates' US and International Marriages Index. See this discussion for why.
- Millennium File: "created by the Institute of Family Research to track the records of its clients and the results of its professional research. It contains more than 880,000 linked family records, with lineages from throughout the world, including colonial America, the British Isles, Switzerland, and Germany. Many of these lineages extend back to nobility and renowned historical figures. In fact, one of the things the Millennium File focuses on is linking to European nobility and royalty."
- Edmund West Family Data collections, per their own description, "should be used to find primary sources."
- UNSOURCED user-contributed family trees, including (but not limited to):
- Pedigree Resource Files on familysearch.org
- Public or any other family trees from Ancestry.com
- Geni.com - World Family Tree - RootsWeb / If the tree cites reliable proofs, find the proofs and cite them instead.
- A personal family tree.
- Find-A-Grave. Find-A-Grave profiles rarely cite reliable proofs. When they do, find the proofs and cite them.
- Transcriptions of documents (wills, etc.) found online that are not published.
- A discussion in a genealogy forum. If the discussion cites reliable proofs, find the proofs and cite them.
- Books with family trees/family histories that do not cite reliable sources. These books are secondary sources and should be seen as a starting point. Further research is needed to confirm those relationships.
Additionally, it was very popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s to publish family genealogies. These are much like the online trees of today-- their quality varies depending on the extent to which they cite their sources. Some contain accurate information-- especially about the people living within the last 50 years prior to the publication date; but many have been subsequently proven to be incomplete, inaccurate, or in a few rare cases, downright fraudulent. Absent better sources, these old published genealogies can be cited or included under "See also:". A goal of the project, however, is to find more original documentation, closer to the time of the event being cited.
- Find-a-Grave is a user-contributed site, and as such is generally excluded from the list of reliable sources. Please do not make changes to a profile's vitals, including identification of relations, based solely on information transcribed on a Find-a-Grave profile. The exception is that if the Find-a-Grave profile contains a photo of a contemporaneous gravestone (i.e., a gravestone created and placed at the time of the person's death) and includes information about the person's death, you can cite the Find-a-Grave profile for the death information, and for other information that appears on the gravestone. Please understand, though, that even gravestones may contain erroneous information.
- Lineage Society Applications. Lineage societies such as Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Society for Colonials Wars, and others, vary with regard to the proofs that they require for membership. And some, like DAR, have changed their rules over time. Therefore, such applications should be used more as finding aids than actual sources. When looking at a lineage society application, please check what sources they cite, and then seek to find those actual sources.
- Links to sources on paid subscription sites such as Ancestry, FindMyPast, and MyHeritage can be frustrating for WikiTree members and visitors without access to these sites. We recommend searching for a freely available copy of the source document on sites such as FamilySearch, Google Books, USGenWeb, Archive.org, or HathiTrust.
- If the source record is only available to paid subscribers, when providing the URL please also extract as much information as possible, such as relevant names, dates, and the source of the original data.
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