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Guide to Orange County, North Carolina ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Description
Orange County is located in the North-Central portion of North Carolina and was named for William V of Orange, the infant grandson of King George III of England.

History Timeline
Orange County NC was created out of parts of Bladen, Granville, and Johnston counties in 1752. At that time, it comprised a large section of the middle of the NC colony, extending halfway from the VA line to the SC line. It was named for the infant William V of Orange. His mother Anne, who was a daughter of King George II of England, was the dowager princess of the Dutch Republic.

At the time that the county was formed, there were 5 Native American tribes living in the area.

As other counties were created out of parts of Orange’s territory, these counties were created wholly out of Old Orange: Chatham (1771), Caswell (1777) and Person (created out of Caswell in 1791), and Alamance (1849). Other sections of the old county were combined with parts of other counties to create: Guilford (1771) –which gave birth in turn to Randolph (1779) and Rockingham (1785) — Wake (1771), Durham (1881), and Lee (1907). After all of this, Orange County was just a fraction of its original size.

Cemeteries

 * at FamilySearch

Church Records
Baptist
 * Rocky River, near Siler City, N.C. Organized about 1757. Now located in Chatham.
 * South Country Line or Waters of Haw River. Constituted 1783.

Church of England
 * St. Matthew's Parish. Established 1752.
 * Hawfields. Founded about 1755. Now located in Alamance. Official website.

Genealogies

 * Clendenin - White, Jo White. "Clendenin of Orange County, North Carolina: An Exercise in Southern Genealogical Problem Solving," The Genealogist, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 1985):186-190.
 * Thompson - Buchanan, Jane Gray. Thomas Thompson and Ann Finney of Colonial Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Lawrence, Closs, and John Thompson. Allied Lines of Finney, McAllister, Buchanan, and Hart. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: J.G. Buchanan, 1987..

Local Histories

 * The age of Orange : political and intellectual leadership in North Carolina, 1752-1861

Military Records
Revolutionary War 
 * 1779-1782 - at FamilySearch

Civil War 

Online Records
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry $
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry $
 * 1885-1953 - at FamilySearch


 * -1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, usually known as the Bethel Regiment.
 * -1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
 * -6th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
 * -11th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
 * -11th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company G
 * -13th Battalion, North Carolina Infantry, Company A
 * -1st Brigade, North Carolina Reserves, Company I
 * -1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company D
 * -1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry,usually known as the Bethel Regiment, Company D
 * -1st Regiment, North Carolina Junior Reserves, Company I
 * -2nd Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry, Company K
 * -3rd Battalion, North Carolina Senior Reserves, Captain Mark Durham's Company
 * -3rd Regiment, North Carolina Artillery, 2nd Company G
 * -6th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company B
 * -6th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Company C

World War I 
 * 1917-1919 - at FamilySearch

World War II 
 * 1940-1948 - at FamilySearch

Newspapers

 * UNC Black Student Movement Newspapers (1969-1981) -- available from the NC Digital Heritage Center
 * North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project, North Carolina State Archives. Search full text newspapers published in Hillsboro.

Other Records
County Records
 * 1833-1970 - at FamilySearch

Probate Records
Online Probate Records
 * 1660-1790 - North Carolina Will Abstracts 1660-1790 at Ancestry $
 * 1663-1979 - at FamilySearch
 * 1665-1998 - North Carolina Wills and Probate Records 1665-1998 at Ancestry $
 * 1735-1970 - at FamilySearch
 * 1760-1800 - North Carolina Will Abstracts 1760-1800 at Ancestry $
 * Pre-1790 - Pre-1790 Orange County, North Carolina Genealogy Wills stored at the North Carolina State Archives are online
 * 1752-1946 - have been digitized by FamilySearch

School Records
Yearbooks 
 * UNC-Chapel Hill: 1890-1978
 * Orange County students at NC colleges - via the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index

Tax Records

 * 1755 - Tax Lists, Onslow County, 1755 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2, online at Ancestry ($)
 * 1755 - Tax Lists, Orange County, 1755 (images) online at North Carolina Digital Collections
 * 1755 - Tax Lists, Orange County, 1755 (images) online at FamilySearch
 * 1755-1755 Tax List of Orange Co., N.C., 1st tax list (transcript) online at FamilySearch
 * 1755-1755 Tax List of Orange County, North Carolina (transcript) online at FamilySearch
 * 1779 - Tax Lists, Orange County, 1779 (index) in NC Taxpayers vol. 2, online at Ancestry ($)
 * 1779 - Tax Lists, Orange County, 1779 (images) online at North Carolina Digital Collections

Birth

 * 1800-2000 - at FamilySearch
 * 1866-1964 - at FamilySearch

Marriage

 * 1741-2004 - North Carolina, United States Marriages at FindMyPast
 * 1741-2004 - North Carolina Marriage Index 1741-2004 at Ancestry $
 * 1759-1979 - at FamilySearch
 * 1762-1979 - at FamilySearch
 * 1763-1868 - at FamilySearch

Death

 * 1898-1994 - at FamilySearch
 * 1906-1930 - at FamilySearch
 * 1908-2004 - North Carolina Death Indexes 1908-2004 at Ancestry $
 * 1909-1975 - North Carolina Death Certificates 1909-1975 at Ancestry $
 * 1931-1994 - at FamilySearch

Divorce

 * 1926-1975 - at FamilySearch
 * 1958-2004 -North Carolina Divorce Index 1958-2004 at Ancestry $

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to Family History Centers
 * Durham North Carolina Family History Center

Societies

 * The Durham-Orange Genealogical Society of North Carolina PO Box 4703 Chapel Hill, NC 27515-4703 Website

Websites

 * NCGenWeb: Orange County - part of the USGenWeb Project
 * USGenWeb Orange County Archives - many additional genealogical records of all kinds
 * – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.