The Wake County Genealogical Society is the author of eight books containing Wake County ancestors. Order your own copy! School Census – Raleigh Township 1897 Cost: $11.69 Wake County Apprentice Bonds, 1770-1860 and 1872-1903 Cost: $28 Wake County Bastardy Bonds – 1772-1937 Cost: $20 Wake County Deed Book R [March 1802-October 1803] Cost: $20 Wake County NC - Divorce Records A-M Cost: $32 Wake Co. Superior Court Divorce Records 1831-1920, SURNAMES N-Z Cost: $17 Wake County, NC Levy Dockets 1805-1815 Cost: $17 Wake Heritage Cost: $55 Find details of each volume at  our website on the Publications page   (scroll down for Lulu). Find the prices and place your order on Lulu.com. Use the following search to see only the eight books being offered by Wake County Genealogical Society. Browse and  purchase from our Lulu Collection . Visit our Lulu Collection for more Visit Wake County Genealogical Society's Website  -  Homepage  |  WCGS Events ...

If you have the surnames - Alford, Liles, and High - in your family lines, you will want to check out Eureka: Proving an Ancestor in Wake County, N.C . by Lodwick Houston Alford describing his efforts to discover and prove the parents of Green Alford , b.1787 near Wakefield, Wake County ( Wake Treasures , vol.10, nbr. 2, p. 17). I read his account hoping for a workflow strategy or inspiration to solve my own elusive ancestor. His efforts included: disambiguating between two similarly named men  proving/disproving the various family stories passed down for generations working with several local history librarians in the area using the Bastardy Bond abstracted records * published in the Wake Treasures   calling in another set of eyes when it seemed all possible lines of research had been exhausted The sum of all these efforts led to his success. This was a compelling report, one I could not stop reading even though it was NMF (not my family). He has given me some ideas to appr...