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Monday, May 18, 2026
WCGS Featured in Latest Family Tree Magazine City Guide
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Family Tree Magazine offers many finding aides and guides at the city, county and state level on their website. Enter their recently update...
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Upchurch and Allied Families Association Newsletter - May 2026
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For those following along, here is the latest Upchurch and Allied Families Association Newsletter. May 2026 Focus is on Memorial Day View pa...
Friday, May 15, 2026
Join Wakecogen for "Coffee & Conversation" - July 16 Meet-up
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Join Wakecogensoc for "Coffee & Conversation" What - July Meet-up When - Thursday, July 16 , at 9:30 am Where - Panera Br...
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Coffee and Convo Summary and Photos - April 29
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On Wednesday, April 29, Members of WCGS met in Cary at the Panera Bread at Parkside for casual conversation about genealogy and other favori...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Wake Wednesday 250: 1774, A Year of Intolerable Acts
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The year 1774 opened to increasing divisiveness between British Parliament and the colonists. Resentment and hostilities were fomenting on b...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Wake Wednesday 250 - The British Will Know Who We Are - Penelope Barker 1773 - Edenton Tea Party
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Piedmont colonists (including those living in Wake County, now just two years young ) lived with a mix of routine frontier hardship and grow...
Thursday, April 30, 2026
2026 Wake County Genealogical Society Virtual Meetings - next - May 26, 2026
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Tuesday, May 26, 2026 @ 6:30pm – Virtual Topic: Preserving Small Family Cemeteries Speaker: Joel Hobby The preservation of the McCulle...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Wake Wednesday 250: Voices From Both Sides of the War of Regulation
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While researching the last post about the Regulators, I found some interesting tidbits of the time period that show the divisions and angst ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Wake Wednesday 250: More than a Musket - Who Qualified as a Revolutionary Patriot?
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Reprinted from Wake Genealogy Watch newsletter, Spring 2026, Vol.9.4 Have you found any Patriots on your family tree? I know you know to l...
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