County Records page on North Carolina State Archives website
County Records Stored in the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh
North Carolina County Formation Guide (PDF)
North Carolina GenWeb Digital Bookshelf
Bibles
Biographies
Births — also see Vital Records
Cemeteries — see link in menu above
Census
When working in early census records, people sometimes ask “Where was Salisbury District?” Salisbury District was not part of Guilford County. Instead, counties were a part of the Salisbury District. In 1755 NC created five District Superior Courts throughout the state. The Salisbury District included all or parts of counties which are now Anson, Cabarrus, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Union, and Yadkin Counties. If you see the name “Hillsborough District,” then that area was in the Superior Court District for Hillsborough, which is in Orange County. The eastern third of Guilford County came from Orange County in 1771. The District Superior Courts were discontinued in 1806 when individual counties were allowed to have Superior Courts.
Churches
City Directories
Court Records
Deaths — see Vital Records
Deeds
Education
- NCGenWeb Yearbook Index
- Greensboro College yearbooks in Digital NC Library
- Guilford College yearbooks in Digital NC Library
- High Point University yearbooks in Digital NC Library
- North Carolina A & T University yearbooks in NC Digital Library
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro yearbooks in NC Digital Library
Estates— see Wills
History
Letters
Marriages
Newspapers
Obituaries
- NC People in the Papers
- Biblical Recorder Newspaper Obits
- Obituaries in the Guilford NCGenWeb Archives
- Obituary Central
Photographs
- Photographs in the Guilford NCGenWeb Archives — please be advised that at least one of the histories posted is very inaccurate and misleading
Postcards
Tax Lists— see the page linked to this page in the menu above
Vital Records
Wills & Estates
