Update -- See the helpful tip from Barbara McGeachy that she learned at an Olivia Rainey Library tour. This just passed through my Facebook feed. It will certainly provide new placed to look for ancestors and could really be a game changer. Hope you have a little time to kill... Read details at FamilySearch This link pulls up Wake County records , but... You can take it anywhere you want to go here . A free log in is required for access. Barbara McGeachy has passed along a handy tip she learned from a class taught by Hannah Cox of Olivia Raney Local History Library. During a recent OLLI presentation, it was noted that searches within a county do not always turn up all cities within the county. One should conduct a "county name" search and a "county, city name" search. as in the illustration.  Visit Wake County Genealogical Society's Website  -  Homepage  |  WCGS Events  |  Join WCGS  |  Publications  |  Wake Cemetery Surv...

If I told you there was a back door to see all of the viewable Wake County Records in the FamilySearch Catalog, would you be interested? It is like viewing virtual microfilm from your own comfy chair! This is a variation on a tip found on a North Carolina regional research group on Facebook. Thanks to Delores Williams of NCGenweb for sharing the tip.  You will need to log in to FamilySearch for this to be usable. Creating a log in is free. Visit this link -  https://tinyurl.com/wakeco You will see the following page of Wake specific collections. Click on the text by the red arrow to access the ability to filter by township.  click image for larger view Click thru the collections. When you find one that is interesting, click through to that page. Scroll down the page to see if the camera icon exists. If so, click the camera to browse the record.  Note that books by individuals are not usually available to view. Collections derived from state and county sources usually...