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<HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#006400" VLINK="#880000"> <P> <HEAD> <TITLE>Forsyth County Genealogical Links</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H2><IMG SRC="nclogo.gif" ALT="[NCGenWeb logo]"><FONT COLOR="#006400"> Forsyth County Data and Other Links</FONT></H2> <P> I am trying to restrict this list to sites with information specific to Forsyth or neighboring counties. <BR> For more general NC links, see the <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/list.html">NCGenWeb comprehensive list</A> <P> <HR> <H4>GENERAL FORSYTH COUNTY SITES</H4> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/forsyth.htm">Forsyth County NCGenWeb Archives</A><P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.forsythgen.org">Forsyth County Genealogical Society</A>. </a> <P> <LI>The <a href="http://www.journalnow.com">Winston Salem Journal</a> <P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.tradingford.com/">Trading Ford - Heart of Old Rowan</A>, page by Ann Brownlee; not quite Forsyth County, but close enough to be of interest to Forsyth researchers.<P> <LI><A HREF="http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.forsyth">Forsyth County query board at Ancestry.com</A><P> <LI><A HREF="http://genforum.genealogy.com/nc/forsyth/">Forsyth County query board at GenForum</A><P> </UL> <HR> <H4>CENSUS AND TAX RECORDS</H4> <UL> <LI><a href="1759.html"> 1759 Rowan County Tax List </a><P> <LI><a href="http://www.skpub.com/genie/census/nc/forsyth.html">census township map</A> at S-K Publications<P> <LI><a href="http://www.fmoran.com/forcen.html">1850 Forsyth County Heads of Household Project</a><P> <LI> <a href="http://www.fmoran.com/1786.html"> 1786 Surry County Taxables</a> (present-day Forsyth)<P> <li><a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/stokes/census.html">1790 - 1840 Stokes County NC Federal Census</a> (Forsyth was part of Stokes Co. until 1849)<P> <LI><a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~ncgen/census.html"> 1850 Davie County Heads of Household Project</a> (neighboring county)<P> <li><a href="ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/surry/census/1790cens.txt">1790 Surry County NC Federal Census</a> (neighboring county)<P> <LI><a href="http://www.fmoran.com/surry.html"> 1850 Surry County Heads of Household Project</a> (neighboring county)<P> <LI> <a href="1898.html"> Forsyth County - 1898</a>, a list of major businesses, attorneys, county officials<P> </UL> <HR> <H4>CHURCH AND CEMETERY RECORDS, OBITUARIES</H4> <UL> <LI><IMG SRC="new.gif"><A HREF="deardorf_obit.html">Benjamin Deardorf obituary</A> <BR> From Cindy Casey<P> <LI><A HREF="StPhilips.html">St. Philips Church</A> near Old Salem, the oldest standing African American church building in North Carolina and one of the oldest in the South <P> <LI><A HREF="http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/">RootsWeb cemetery database</A><BR>includes 77 records for Muddy Creek (Union) Friends Cemetery, Kernersville, by Hunter B. Atkins<P> <LI><A HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~debic/salem.htm">Old Salem Guidebook</A>, index to names, lookups, by Debi McGee Cundiff<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Opry/1166/mtplea/mtplea.htm">Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church at Tanglewood</A> cemetery transcription and photos by Virginia Flesher<P> <LI> <a href="http://www.bethabara.org">Bethabara Moravian Church</a><P> <LI>The Political Graveyard </a> - <a href="http://www.potifos.com/tpg/geo/NC/FO.html#CEM">The Political Graveyard - Forsyth County </a> - famous and infamous people associated with Forsyth County<P> <LI> <a href="fordobbs.html"> Dobbs Parish Graveyard Records </a><P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.enter.net/~smschlack">Moravian Church Genealogy Links</A>, page by Sue Schlack. Also see Sue's lists of Moravian surnames <A HREF="http://www.enter.net/~smschlack/a-l.html">A-L names</A> and <A HREF="http://www.enter.net/~smschlack/m-z.html">M-Z names</A>. Quite a few North Carolina names are included.<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.crystallady.com/BinkleyPhotoPage.htm">photographs of some Forsyth and Yadkin church cemeteries</A> by Steve Binkley<P> </UL> <HR> <H4>DEEDS</H4> <UL> <LI><IMG SRC="new.gif"><A HREF="rainey_deeds.html">RAINEY family deeds</A><BR> From Cindy Casey, two deeds pertinent to the RAINEY family, dated 1858 and 1868 respectively. <BR>Other surnames mentioned are ALSPAUGH, BANNER, BITTIN, BURTON, CARDWELL, DABNEY, FRY, GOLDING, JONES, LASH, MAYS, MOODY, MORRIS, PEPPER, POINDEXTER, PRYER / PRYOR, STEADMON, TUTTLE<P> </UL> <HR> <H4>MARRIAGE RECORDS</H4> <UL> <LI>The <A HREF="http://www.forsythgen.org">Forsyth County Genealogical Society</A> has published three books of marriage records, spanning the period from 1849 through 1889.<P> <LI>More recent Forsyth Co. marriage license information can be obtained from the Forsyth Co. Register of Deeds.<P> <LI><IMG SRC="new.gif"><A HREF="http://members.aol.com/yadkinmar/">Yadkin County marriages 1867-1901</A>, transcribed by Helen S. Wishon, Yadkinville, NC in 1999<BR> [downloadable pdf file]<P> </UL> <HR> <H4>MILITARY</H4> <UL> <LI><IMG SRC="new.gif"><A HREF="deserters.html">Civil War deserters</A><BR> From Cindy Casey, articles from the People's Press regarding deserters from the Forsyth Co. area. Includes many names of men arrested.<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.21nct.com/">21st NC Troops</A>. The web page for this Confederate re-enactment unit includes the complete rosters of all companies in the NC 21st, which was drawn from Stokes, Forsyth, Guilford and neighboring counties. <P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.nps.gov/guco">Guilford Courthouse National Military Park</A> <P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/~cindycasey/pension.htm">Civil War pension applicants</A> - from Cindy Casey<P> <LI><IMG SRC="new.gif"><A HREF="pensions.html">another file of Civil War pension applicants</A>, also from Cindy Casey<BR> <LI> <a href="winston.html"> Col. Joseph Winston </a> 1892 newspaper article <P> <LI> <a href="wash.html"> President George Washington in Salem, 1791</a> <P> <LI><a href="http://sparc.hpl.lib.tx.us/hpl/fc002.html"> The Southern Claims Commission, A little known source of genealogical information</A>. <BR> <I>This link not working - can anyone furnish an updated URL?</I><P> <LI> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/HYDE.HTM"> Hyde County, NC US GenWeb Project</a> <BR> John McGowan has posted the rosters of the companies formed during the Civil War from Hyde Co.� In Co. H, 33rd Regt., NCST, includes a number of soldiers from Forsyth Co.<P> <LI><A HREF="http://home.webkorner.com/whigkid/shallowford/index.html">The Revolutionary War Battle of Shallow Ford</A><BR> Ann Brownlee's page of research on a battle in what is now Yadkin Co., October 14, 1780.<P> <LI>Another page by Ann Brownlee: <A HREF="http://home.webkorner.com/whigkid/ncrevweb/index.html">North Carolina in the Struggle for Independence</A> <P> <HR> <P> </UL> <H4>FAMILY PAGES WITH FORSYTH COUNTY CONNECTIONS</H4> <UL> <LI>Connie Padgett has a page on the <A HREF="http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=joneskidding">KITE and MEREDITH families</A>. Gernie V. Kite, Sr. and his wife Pearl Meredith Kite moved to Winston-Salem in the late 1920s and have many descendants in the Forsyth county area. <P> <LI>John Speight's <A HREF="http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/p/e/John-F-Speight/">Speight family page</A> includes many families in the greater Winston-Salem area<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.s-starbuck.com">STARBUCK family page</A> by Stephen Starbuck<P> <LI><A HREF="http://home.triad.rr.com/keigerkorner">Keiger/Geiger/Kiger family page by Bill Keiger</A><P> <LI><A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~teague/">Teague family page</A> by Yvonne Matlosz<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~meobbfha/">Old Broad Bay Family History Association</A><P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/barnabas/main.html">The Heritage of the Hortons</A> <P> <LI><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/genegirl2/"> Lynnell Taylor's page</A> includes the Pfaff family<P> <LI><a href="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/e/d/e/Kristy-Edenfield/"> Sprinkle Family page</A> by Kristy Edenfield<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.fmoran.com/newslist.html">Family Newsletters</A>, page by Faye Moran, lists newsletters published for a number of family associations, including several for Forsyth families<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Opry/1166/mtplea/mtplea.htm">Granny's Genealogy</A> page by Virginia Flesher; Flesher, Moss, and many other Forsyth County names<P> <LI><A HREF="http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/o/Ron-Booe/">Booe Family History</A> by Ron Booe<P> <LI><A HREF="http://www.indigomagick.com/teshweb.htm">Bradley Tesh's web page</A><P> <LI><a href="http://www.fmoran.com/sheek01.html"> Old Clemmons homeplace has colorful past</a> by Ann Sheek<P> <LI> <a href="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/f/o/y/Karen-C-Foy/index.html"> The Craver/Graber Homepage </a>by Karen Craver Foy<P> <LI> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/2698/"> Hauser Central</a><P> <LI><a href="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/u/t/Jeanette-W-Cuthriell/index.html"> Jeanette's House of Roots and Twigs </a><P> <LI><a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eleeg/peddicord/peddicor.htm"> Descendants of William Petticoat</a><P> <LI><a href="http://www.gail4orce.com/">Brown-Jones-Windsor-Wolff Family Page</a> by Paula Windsor Bennett<P> <LI> Michael T. Southern's <a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~msouthern"> The Southern Family in N.C.</a><P> <LI> <a href="http://www.netunlimited.net/~ccasey/salem.htm"> Across the Creek from Old Salem </a> <BR> <I>This link not working - can anyone furnish an updated URL?</I><P> <LI> <a href="http://famtrees.home.mindspring.com/"> Edwards Family History Homepage</a> has connections to Forsyth County<P> <LI><a href="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/a/s/Frances-H-Casstevens"> Harding Family Page </a>by Frances Casstevens<P> <LI>Frances also hosts <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/FCasstevens/index.html">The Yadkin County Country Store page</a> <P> <LI><a href="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/y/a/Brenda--J-Wyatt-/"> Brenda Wyatt's FTM Site</a><P> <LI><a href="http://www.fmoran.com/">Jarvis Family and Other Relatives </a>...Over 160 Family Pages & Descendants<P> <LI><a href="http://wespatterson.com/gen.html">Wes Patterson's Genealogy Home Page</a><P> <LI> <a href="http://members.tripod.com/~meiwei/index.html"> Marylyn Letson's List of Surnames</a> has many NC names.<P> <LI><a href="http://users.ev1.net/~siobhan1/ginger1.htmL"> Ginger Hulsopple's Genealogy Page </a><P> <LI><a href="http://www.marshallgenealogy.org/"> The Family Tree</a> by David Marshall<P> <LI>19th Century magician known as the <a href="http://www.fmoran.com/wizard.html"> Wizard of the Blue Ridge</a> courtesy of Gary Hunt <P> <LI><a href="http://members.aol.com/bbova2332/masters.html"> Descendants of Robert Masters </a> <P> <LI><a href="http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/brown/index.html"> Brown County, KS GenWeb Project</a> Has ties to Forsyth Co.<P> </UL> <HR> <H4>NEARBY COUNTIES</H4> <B>USGenWeb pages</B> <UL> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdavids/"> Davidson County </a><P> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdavie/"> Davie County </a><P> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncguilfo/"> Guilford County </a><P> <a href="http://www.iredell.com/"> Iredell County </a><P> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncrandol/"> Randolph County </a><P> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncrockin/"> Rockingham County</a><P> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncrowan"> Rowan County </a> <P> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncstokes/"> Stokes County </a><P> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/~surryco/"> Surry County </a><P> <a href="http://juliemorrison.com/surry/">Surry County Genealogical Association</a> <P> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncwilkes/"> Wilkes County </a><P> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncyadkin/"> Yadkin County </a><P> <P> </UL> <HR> <a href="index.html"> Return to Forsyth County, NCGenWeb </a><P> <H5> Please let me know if you find a link not working <P> <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">Elizabeth Harris</A><P> </B> </BODY> </HTML>