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NCGenWeb - Avery County

Here you'll find family files, family group sheets, census reports, and anything that might help you find your ancestors. If you have files you'd like added here or linked to, please let me know. I'll be glad to add them.

Censuses

1920 Avery County Census Images

Data Files

Guide to Research Materials in the North Carolina Archives County Records

Leslie Ward graciously submitted the following information in hopes that it might help others in their search. Data for these files came from I Horton Cooper's "History of Avery County" published in 1964 by Biltmore Press, 9 Valley Street, Asheville, NC. 

Jacob ("Uncle Jake") Carpenter's "Anthology of Death"
Toll of Dead & Missing in World War II
Avery County World War I Military & Casualties
Veterans of World War II

Family Files

None submitted yet

Maps

Historical Sites in Avery County - Site Survey by Elizabeth Stevens and Deborah Thompson
The approximate boundaries of Caldwell, Mitchell and Watauga Counties prior to 1911
Northwestern North Carolina in 1834 - Counties prior to Caldwell, Mitchell and Watauga

Online Databases

Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
Don Chestnut's Database - over 19,000 individuals centered in the Central Appalachians
Roots Surname List - search for fellow researchers by surnames or location

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