Wake Wednesday - Wake County Bible Records Online

All Bible records held by the State Archives are now described in their online catalog. They have been digitized and the images and transcriptions are available as  part of the North Carolina Digital Collections.

Once you access the Family Record link above, you can search by Wake or any other county. At the left side of the page, you will find a "Format" box that will allow you to focus only on the bible records. You can search for a particular family by using the "Title" box drop down menu also on the left side bar.  

The Wake County Bible section includes 190 record groups at this writing including names that have long been a part of Wake County history. You will find records for the families of Etheldred and Jane Jones, Col. Matthew and Sarah Lane McCullers, Col. William Hinton, and so many more. I ran into records for both maternal and paternal sides of a good friend just browsing the list! The records span colonial times through 1989. 

I found my old friends Needham Price and his sister Schaharazade Price Mial (Wake Gen Watch,1.2 p.6) while browsing the Mial bible. See screen clip below.

Mial Family Bible Records, image 1

It is worth a browse through the digitized bible records in the NC Digital Collections whether you restrict your research to Wake County or expand your focus across all NC Counties. Happy Hunting.

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Wake Wednesday - Cary Records online at Digital NC

Do you have ancestors and relatives in Cary? If you/they have been there awhile you will enjoy this new record set available online.

This attention grabbing Centennial beard and Parade schedule from the 1971 Centennial Parade featured in The Western Wake Herald in April, 1971 are just the tip of the iceberg of what you will find. Also included are deeds, land grants and other records, correspondence from  Elizabeth Reid Murray, biographies, architectural sketches of some of the memorable historic buildings around Cary, and a whole host of photos and memorabilia that you did not know you needed to see. 

Update from North Carolina Digital Heritage Center via Facebook:

"Interested in the history of Cary, NC? Research files documenting the change in the community from small farm town to major suburb of Raleigh over the 20th century are now online thanks to our partner Page-Walker Arts & History Center."

Link to NC Digital blog post describing the collection. 

View/browse the record collection here.

Dig into this record set. I can promise you a few hours of fascination.

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