LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TO DIGITIZE GENEALOGY BOOKS The Library of Congress just announced that it has received 2 million from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation to digitize thousands of books. Among those to be digitized are "U.S. genealogy and regimental histories. The former includes many useful county, state, and regional histories, while the latter includes histories, memoirs, diaries and other collections from the Civil War period." Read the whole press release at http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07- 020.html

Found these on Geneology.com Abstracts of NC Wills 1665-1900 Wake Co. Hope they help, Helen 1787 Ward, John, Lydia (wife); Jesse, William, John, Nuett, Fanny, Mary, Latitia, and Delilah. 1797 Ward, William, Prudence (wife); William Jr., Thomas, Nathan, Martha, Tabitha, Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah

Does anyone have information on Nuett ( sometimes spelled Newit or Newitt) Ward. I believe he was born in Granville co but married Unity Hobbs in Marks Creek Wake Co NC.Looking for connection to Wylie (Willie) Ward who married Martha Patsy Whitehead. Believe he is Wylie's father. Thanks, Ann - Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Is anyone working on the family descended from William Arnold Rhodes and Burrilda Riley in Wake Co.? If you are, I'd love to talk with you about Burrilda Riley's family and exchange info. You can contact me off-list at jgaudio@charter.net. Joanne Pearce Gaudio

Hi, Just wanted to thank you all for the great information you share! Thanks, Tee Sandy <teylu@earthlink.net> wrote: HI Jan, It's both extremely easy and inexpensive to obtain a *non-certified* photocopy (as opposed to a "certified" copy, which you really don't need for research anyway.) You can get a copy from Wake Co. Vital Records which has moved to the Wake Co Register of Deeds Office. The contact there for birth and death records is Eva Adams . She's very nice and very helpful. The information on a plain photocopy (which costs only a few cents) is the very same as that on a certified copy (which usually costs several dollars). However, there are some legal restrictions on who may obtain *certified* copies, since those can be used for legal purposes. The Wake Register of Deeds website is: http://web.co.wake.nc.us/rdeeds/fees.htm If you're unsure of a precise date for someone, I would email Ms. Adams and ask what span of years they would search for you. Most records offices will search a specified span such as 5 or 10 years on either side of an approximate date. Hope this helps, Sandy On Feb 6, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Jan Bohler wrote: > Everyone has been great about sending the code information and that > has > really helped. Thank you all. > How hard is it to get death certificates from NC, in this case, > Wake County? > Also how much are they? > I have not been able to find my Aunt Sinia's parents. > Thanks, > Jan > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCWAKE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCWAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

Ginger, The County Codes on that website are not part of the coding system for either the State Archives, or the Public Health Dept. lists which are used on the Death Indexes. I'm not sure what they are used for, but here are 2 sites that give you county lists. http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/Archives/FindingAids/Circulars/AIC15.pdf This is the State Archives County Codes; scroll down to Page 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_North_Carolina This is the list for FIPS, which seems to be associated with the website you referred to. Good Luck, Deloris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginger Smith" <grs3275@yahoo.com> To: <ncwake@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [NCWAKE] Death Index on Ancestry Ginger > > Does anyone know what these code are for from this web site: > > _http://www.schooldata.com/States/ncarol.html_ > (http://www.schooldata.com/States/ncarol.html) > > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.28/672 - Release Date: 2/6/2007 10:22 AM

Jan, These are matters of state law so vary from one state to another. But you shouldn't have any problem obtaining non-certified photocopies in North Carolina. I've never had any difficulty, and since anyone can obtain non-certified copies, you eliminate the requirements of producing an ID and swearing to your relationship, etc. I do always state up-front that I'm requesting a NON-certified copy, since it does sometimes seem that records clerks assume you want a certified copy. (I suspect they probably get more requests for certified ones.) FYI, in any state you'll need multiple certified copies of the death certificate for various matters involved in settling someone's estate. So quite possibly your husband did need certified copies following his father's death. Non-certified photocopies will not suffice for most legal matters. If he didn't need "certified," he could've always just bought one that was certified, and run it through copy machine himself to get as many additional non-certified copies as he wanted. -Sandy On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Jan Bohler wrote: > Thanks Brian and Sandy, > In Georgia it is a flat $15 I think. My FIL passed away this past > Nov and > they told my husband that the first was $15 and then any others > that you got > at the same time would be $5 but to make sure that he got as many > as he > thought that he would need because if he had to go back and get an > extra one > it would be $15 again. I have not been able to get *non-certified* > copies. > Thanks again. > Jan >

Thanks Brian and Sandy, In Georgia it is a flat $15 I think. My FIL passed away this past Nov and they told my husband that the first was $15 and then any others that you got at the same time would be $5 but to make sure that he got as many as he thought that he would need because if he had to go back and get an extra one it would be $15 again. I have not been able to get *non-certified* copies. Thanks again. Jan

Jan, It is not that hard to get death certificates. In Wake County just go to the Register of Deeds website at http://web.co.wake.nc.us/RDeeds/birth&death/birth&death.htm Brian Lehrschall ----- Original Message ----- From: Jan Bohler <jbohler@bellsouth.net> Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 10:55 am Subject: [NCWAKE] Death Certificates To: ncwake@rootsweb.com > Everyone has been great about sending the code information and > that has > really helped. Thank you all. > How hard is it to get death certificates from NC, in this case, > Wake County? > Also how much are they? > I have not been able to find my Aunt Sinia's parents. > Thanks, > Jan > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCWAKE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Old maps (and indexes) in PDF format from the Wake Co Register of Deeds Ofc website: http://web.co.wake.nc.us/RDeeds/maps/maps.htm Also note from the RofD FAQ page: http://web.co.wake.nc.us/rdeeds/faq-general.htm All survey maps recorded since 1885 are available through our web site via the BOOKS! system at no cost to you. Note that survey map book numbers begin with BM followed by the year of recording (i.e., BM1999). Survey maps are separated into NC LRM and COTT data according to record date, with the following exception. Maps recorded prior to 1978 will be found in NC LRM (Current) data as they were recently added to the system. Search Type Description: NC LRM (NC Land Records Management) Standards = 10/1/91 to Present and Backfile Prior to 1/1/74 COTT = 1/1/74 to 9/30/91 The BOOKS! system is accessible from the home page: http://web.co.wake.nc.us/rdeeds/ -Sandy

HI Jan, It's both extremely easy and inexpensive to obtain a *non-certified* photocopy (as opposed to a "certified" copy, which you really don't need for research anyway.) You can get a copy from Wake Co. Vital Records which has moved to the Wake Co Register of Deeds Office. The contact there for birth and death records is Eva Adams <ejadams@co.wake.nc.us>. She's very nice and very helpful. The information on a plain photocopy (which costs only a few cents) is the very same as that on a certified copy (which usually costs several dollars). However, there are some legal restrictions on who may obtain *certified* copies, since those can be used for legal purposes. The Wake Register of Deeds website is: http://web.co.wake.nc.us/rdeeds/fees.htm If you're unsure of a precise date for someone, I would email Ms. Adams and ask what span of years they would search for you. Most records offices will search a specified span such as 5 or 10 years on either side of an approximate date. Hope this helps, Sandy On Feb 6, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Jan Bohler wrote: > Everyone has been great about sending the code information and that > has > really helped. Thank you all. > How hard is it to get death certificates from NC, in this case, > Wake County? > Also how much are they? > I have not been able to find my Aunt Sinia's parents. > Thanks, > Jan > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCWAKE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Everyone has been great about sending the code information and that has really helped. Thank you all. How hard is it to get death certificates from NC, in this case, Wake County? Also how much are they? I have not been able to find my Aunt Sinia's parents. Thanks, Jan

They appear to be nothing more than a set of internal database codes used by a commercial marketing firm. On Feb 5, 2007, at 9:04 PM, HEW4010@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone know what these code are for from this web site: > > _http://www.schooldata.com/States/ncarol.html_ > (http://www.schooldata.com/States/ncarol.html) >

The numerical codes assigned to county records by the NC Archives (for example, marriage bonds, wills, etc.) are explained and listed online here: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/iss/gr/counties.htm There is a *different* set of numerical codes denoting the county of death on North Carolina death certificates. Here is a list of these codes: http://home.earthlink.net/~ncvance/DC_cocodes.jpg -Sandy

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This is a good site also for order books. _http://www.frontierpress.com/frontier.cgi?category=nc-2&cart_id=6085537.10687 _ (http://www.frontierpress.com/frontier.cgi?category=nc-2&cart_id=6085537.10687)

This is a good site for ordering genealogy books, I have order from them with no problems. Helen _http://www.mountainpress.com/books/nc/_ (http://www.mountainpress.com/books/nc/)

The codes listed on this website are NOT the codes used by the archives. Ginger Does anyone know what these code are for from this web site: _http://www.schooldata.com/States/ncarol.html_ (http://www.schooldata.com/States/ncarol.html) --------------------------------- Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.

Elizabeth, When Ancestry first added the earliest death indexes about a year and a half ago (they had already had the ones online for after abt 1965) this problem became noted, and a number of people complained to Ancestry about it. They removed the entire database for several months, supposedly in an effort to fix it, but apparently it is such an enormous job, (I guess they have to go back over all of the records they had completed, again) that they put the database back online, again, because I believe they got so many complaints since the database really is useful even with its faults, but with a "fix" of sorts. It only affects the pre-1965 records, by the way, but they adjusted their Search engine to come up with hits for whatever County one inputs in the "County of Death" field, comes up with the correct County, but sometimes has the name of the county wrong. As you mentioned, many of the Wake Co. entries come up as Surry Co., and that would show up in the search, and currently the only way to know for sure is to click onto the actual image that is included and see the code for yourself. The list of the County Codes that are on the actual copies is on the homepage of the Death Collection database: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8908&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 Click onto the link in the middle of the page that says "click here", and the list of codes will come up. It can get pretty confusing reading those original Indexes that were put out by the State, though, because they weren't uniform throughout the years, and one needs to use caution when determining which column means what. It sure would be nice if they do fix it, but who knows if that will ever come about. Deloris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Harris" <ncgen@mindspring.com> To: <ncwake@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [NCWAKE] Death Index on Ancestry > >FYI, the county codes for death certificates are *different* than the >>county codes for marriage records, though I have no idea why. They >>just are. Also important to know is that in indexing these records, >>Ancestry has listed the county of death erroneously in almost every >>case. (Again, I've no idea why!) > > > Ancestry used the wrong set of county codes to identify the counties > on the death certificates. Currently there are exactly 100 counties > in NC, and since birth and death registration didn't start until > midway through 1913, in these records the counties were numbered 1 to > 100 in alphabetical order. > > However, marriage registration began much earlier in NC - as marriage > bonds until 1868, then as marriage licenses - so for those the > correct county code list to use is the same one that the state > archives uses for its records. This list includes all the counties > there ever were, including some like Bute, Dobbs, Tryon etc. that > split to form other counties and no longer exist under those names. > > Ancestry used the latter county list to index the death records, so > the numbers are wrong for many of the sets of records. Wake county > deaths often appear as Surry County, for instance. > > This happened some months ago, but I haven't been able to find a > place on their site to report the problem and ask that they fix it. > Has anyone on this list succeeded in making contact with a human > being there, and if so, what was their answer? > > > -- > Elizabeth Harris > ncgen@mindspring.com > > Personal genealogy webpage: http://www.duke.edu/web/chlamy > Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://www.fmoran.com/ > HOLDER DNA project: http://www.mindspring.com/~holderdna/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCWAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.25/669 - Release Date: 2/4/2007 > 9:58 PM > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.25/669 - Release Date: 2/4/2007 9:58 PM