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Project: North Carolina

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Welcome to the North Carolina Project!

The North Carolina Project is a full and independent project classed as a Topical Project. The primary purpose of this type project is to create and improve profiles for people who were born in, lived in, or died in North Carolina. The profiles support WikiTree’s goal to create a single family tree for the world.

North Carolina Counties
Alamance Alexander Alleghany Anson Ashe Avery Beaufort Bertie Bladen Brunswick
Buncombe Burke Cabarrus Caldwell Camden Carteret Caswell Catawba Chatham Cherokee
Chowan Clay Cleveland Columbus Craven Cumberland Currituck Dare Davidson Davie
Dobbs Duplin Durham Edgecombe Forsyth Franklin Gaston Gates Graham Granville
Greene Guilford Halifax Harnett Haywood Henderson Hertford Hoke Hyde Iredell
Jackson Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell
Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery Moore Nash New Hanover Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico
Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham
Rowan Rutherford Sampson Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tyrrell
Union Vance Wake Warren Washington Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin
Yancey
Current North Carolina Counties

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How to Join

It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of North Carolina or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest in North Carolina is welcome. To be a member of the North Carolina Project, you must:

  • Be a full member of WikiTree, having signed the Honor Code
  • Have been on WikiTree at least 30 days
  • Make at least 100 contributions to WikiTree before joining the project
  • Join the North Carolina Project Google discussion group

If you qualify based on the above and would like to join, click on the "G2G welcome post" in the box below.

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For a full list of participants in the North Carolina Project, see the badge report.

The North Carolina Project watchlist is here.

Please see our list of goals and tasks below for ways you can help.

Templates

The template is {{North Carolina Project}} which will give you:
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This above template is for use exclusively on profiles that are of importance to the project or need to be PPP'd and managed by the project. It is not for every single person from North Carolina. The following sticker might be used in that circumstance, placing it below the Biography Header:

Goals

The overall goals of the North Carolina are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in North Carolina. To meet these goals:

  1. Add North Carolina-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
  2. If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
  3. Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
  4. Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
  5. Add the North Carolina template to the profiles along with any relevant categories.
  6. Contact Pip Sheppard to request PPP status for those profiles that meet the criteria for project protection. This will protect them from an incorrect merge.
  7. Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
  8. Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.

Teams

In order to work towards our goal, we will be creating various teams. Check out the current Team pages and find a team (or teams) that you'd like to join.

  • Colonial Profile Improvement Teams: The teams below cover the period before North Carolina gained statehood and cover the period when it was part of the Carolina Colony and then when it became the Province of North Carolina (1712-1776).
    • This Team is for individuals who want to focus on a specific area of profile improvement for pre-statehood (e.g., colonial period). It is divided into the following teams:
      • Arborists Team - Seeks out and merges duplicate profiles.
      • Bio Builders Team - Cleans up biography and sources sections and develops interesting, well-written, sourced biographies for profiles using inline sourcing.
      • Connectors Team - Connects up the loose profiles or branches to our global family WikiTree.
      • Data Doctors Team - Improves the profiles by reviewing the suggestion lists and completing the appropriate actions as a Data Doctor.
      • Sourcerers Team - Finds and adds sources for North Carolina profiles.

List of Things To Do

  1. Need space pages created and developed for North Carolina counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
  2. If you have any North Carolina state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the North Carolina Resources Page.
  3. If you live in North Carolina, please consider adding North Carolina Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.

Ongoing List of Things to Do

  1. Cemeteries in North Carolina need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the North Carolina Cemeteries Project
  2. Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about North Carolina state tribes.
  3. Work on North Carolina's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
  4. Create new profiles for people of North Carolina who are documented in a family member's profile, but might not have their own profiles yet. See Needs Profiles Created
  5. Work on Suggestions for North Carolina Project-Managed Profiles and Suggestions for profiles from North Carolina, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
  6. Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from North Carolina in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.
  7. Help find the Last Name at Birth (LNAB) for North Carolina Unknowns using the Profile Improvement Project Unknowns Team Process
  8. Help add profiles with the US Black Heritage 1880 Project Teams

Projects

Town, County, and Church Projects

Town and County Census Spaces

North Carolina Resources

Old Tryon County

Members

Members, add your name and what you are interested in below. You can change that info whenever you like! from Carolina Team Leader: Mary Richardson English ancestors -through Virginia to North Carolina. Scottish ancestors immigrated to the Province of Carolina, then Abbeville, S,C. to Georgia, Team Members:

  • Stuart Awbrey - I will be moving to Hendersonville summer of 2026. Recently discovered 3 lines of my ancestors have lived in NC.
  • LSRandolph_working on sources and biographies
  • H Baggott - ancestor in Province of North Carolina (1712-1776) Some of my ancestors, without moving, went from being Virginians to North Carolinians once they redrew the lines. Also, writing biographies is a favorite pastime.
  • Donnie Blackstone -
  • Brenda Breland Shaffer - Almost all of my ancestors arrived in Virginia, and then are documented in the Carolina's and Georgia during the Colonial period. will be working on sources on profiles to validate them and familial relationships.
  • Betsy Collins- Colony of Virginia, Carolina, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Maryland. of Cupertino, CA, born in Louisiana and grew up in Colorado!)
  • Laura DeSpain All of my ancestors were from the Southern Colonies. Most of us are still in the Southeastern U.S. Most of my maternal line is still in South Carolina and has been since before the 1700s.
  • MaryAnn Thomas - Teams Province of Maryland, Colony of Virginia, Province of Carolina, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, as well as Military and War Project
  • April Forsythe = Virginia and North Carolina ancestors. Ancestors in Jamestowne Socity Qualifying Ancestors category thus far: Thorpe-149, Harris-1964, Addie-3, Branch-50, Hallom-3, Sewell-175, Willoughby-377, Mason-1718, Ganey-93,Tatum-73, Wynne-2, Sloman-1, Jones-2181, Stith-10, Branch-69, Gough-136,Mason-2737, Pierce-4175.
  • Mags Gaulden - doing, stuff. Deep South Carolina/NC/GA/VA Roots.
  • Chad Olivent Ancestors came into Carolina at the earliest dates 1650's, including Chowanoke tribal ancestors. More traceable families that moved south from Jamestown, southside Virginia, the Eastern Shore, and Lower Norfolk than I ever imagined.
  • John Griscom Jr.
  • Yolaine Hudson - Paternal side came to America during the colonial period in the 1600's and resided in VA and MD for the most part until NC came available, then many migrated to KY, etc....our early colonists- Archer, Bailey, Ball, Baugh, Bolling, Burris, Butt, Byrd, Chambers, Chewning, Chiles, Colclough, Croshaw, Durham, Farrar, Field, Holloway, Holt, Hudson, Jefferson, Moore, Tandy, and West
  • Tina (Keene) Keene Peddie - Member of Southern Colonies, Colony of Virginia, Provinces of Carolina, North Carolina, South Carolina, & Georgia Teams.
  • Christine Johnson Gephart - teams Colony of Virginia, Carolina team, and Province of North Carolina. I’m willing to help in anyway with these projects
  • Steve Lake Returning to Southern Colonies and Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas, Georgia Teams
  • Anne Langley - about Anne
  • Terri Stern - ancestors of prime interest (Coffey and Montgomery) were in the Waxhaws, part of the squishy border, I think the best team for me is Carolina. I recently edited a number of them with their NSDAR sticker and source citation.
  • James Little - about James
  • RL McAdoo Researching Families McAdoo/McAdow, Stewart, Larkin, Glass, Evans, and others located around Buffalo and Alamance (Guilford NC) and Sinking Springs (Abingdon VA) Presbyterian Churches. All established pre-1776. Usually embarked from from Ulster or Scotland and landing at ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Charleston.
  • Jennifer Jordan - Focusing on my and my husband’s earliest ancestors. Most proud that I could figure out how to correctly add the Team sticker to my Profile page.
  • LaMyra Morton
  • Tom Potter Working on Profiles in Eastern NC, Onslow, New Hanover, Brunswick, Bladen. Researching family in Town Creek area and family in the Civil War.
  • Tralawney Reeder- Member of Province of Carolina, Colony of Virginia, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Georgia Teams. I am interested is finding more information about the Rhodes and related families from Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia.
  • Melissa Reed ancestors have been scattered throughout the southern colonies since 1600s. Most ended up settling in South Carolina and Georgia
  • Barry B Sheppard- My family includes early settlers into South Carolina as well as Qualifying Jamestown Colony Ancestors.
  • Pip Sheppard - focusing on early settlers in the Catawba River Valley, more specially those families in eastern Lincoln and Gaston Counties, and western Mecklenburg County. Most were German and Ulster-Scots. This will be all of my maternal heritage, steeped in me by my grandparents. Surnames: Clubb, Neal, Beaty, Fite, Wells, Moore, Lawing, Berryhill, Todd, and others, including all related families, and even those not related.
  • Betty Skelton Norman - will work on what is needed. Many of my ancestors settled in South Carolina upstate -- what was once District Ninety Six. What is most remarkable about them is not the fame they achieved, but that their progeny endured, still in the Carolina Piedmont, even through the antebellum period. Their surnames are Skelton, Banister, Moore, Todd, Hembree, Brock, Holcombe, Braswell. Quality Assurance-Analysis of Province of Carolina profiles for dead links Quality Assurance
  • L Sauls working Alexander Younger family, preacher in Carolina
  • Becky Simmons - About Becky-
  • John Simmons- writing biographies for Carolina and SC profiles.
  • Erin Lausch- ancestors in Carolina and Jamestown
  • Mary Stanley Magnuson - limited South Carolina connections - but have at least 4 Jamestown Ancestors and all of Virginia, North Carolina and some in Maryland.,
  • T Stanton - many early family lines in Carolina; a significant number came from Nansemond, a few from Massachusetts a few from the Old World. Stantonsburg, North Carolina (population 768) founded by and named for two multi-great grandfathers.
  • Kerri Miaso about Kerri
  • Beth Streu My ancestors were in Virginia and the Carolinas before the Revolutionary War.
  • Cathie Stumpenhaus - I am a descendant of Anthony Alexander. Alexanders were some of the earliest land holders now Tyrrell County, North Carolina.
  • Glenn Tuley - Family legends say they travelled west with Daniel Boone.. Documented Tuley families in North Carolina in 1700's.. Other related families came from North Carolina.
  • Anonymous (Turner) Foster- Many of ancestors lived in North and South Carolina prior to the Revolutionary War
  • Jim Ward
  • Dawn Watson interested in the Carolina, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Georgia teams 11/23/2023
  • Carol Wilder - Willing to assist in any way. Sourcing Dodson profiles on WikiTree with good sources. Adding spouses (b in Edgecombe County, NC) , with abstract of will.
  • Ryan Williams - Carolinas, Jamestown
  • Joan Benton: ... see home page
  • Allen Jensen ne Woodard Paternal ancestors came from Virginia through North Carolina to North Georgia. My maternal line I have only traced back to North Carolina. Virginia.
  • Paula J - I have many relatives and ancestors from Western North Carolina as well as others that came down the Great Wagon Trail through there to South Carolina.
  • Linda Barnett
  • Sylvia B- most of my paternal family settled in Stokes & Surry Co. via the Great Wagon Trail. I also frequently visit and photograph local cemeteries.
  • Kyle Bolton - Ancestors in Wake/Franklin/Johnston from mid-late 1700s to early 1800s.
  • Rodney Bowers - Kin lived in most all areas of North Carolina, but particularly interested in Burke/McDowell, Mecklenburg, Caswell and Anson counties.
  • Eric Christensen Most interested in history of Washington, Tyrrell, Hyde, and Dare counties.
  • Linda Church deep roots in Western North Carolina ,mainly, Alexander, Caldwell, Watauga, Burke, Wilkes, Ashe Counties. Would like to work on my ancestors in the Civil War and Slave Holders information
  • Lela (Cook) Howard My Paternal side Philip Cook about 1755 in Lincoln, NC. I have wills and land records.
  • Eric Daly researcher. Tracing many lines from NC.
  • Teresa Davis- Working on Bute,Bertie,Warren,Halifax,Albemarle,Watauga,Ashe and Wilkes Counties and more
  • S Davis - Buncombe, Madison Counties: Davis name
  • Fann Fann/Porter - Counties prominent among direct ancestors include: Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Cumberland, Johnston, Pamlico, Sampson and Wayne.
  • Kelley Harrell - NC Native, focused on Wayne, Avery, Onslow, and Watauga Counties
  • Kelley Link - I was born and raised in Western North Carolina, specifically Buncombe Co. I am very interested in discovering my family tree.
  • Heather Jones -- The entirety of my direct line of ancestors (at least 6 generations) lived in central North Carolina in two counties, Montgomery and Stanly.
  • William Keener - I'm a ninth generation resident of North Carolina and have been researching and writing about my paternal genealogy and related local (and US) history for the past several years (see my profile for details). Looking forward to learning from and collaborating with other genealogists and historians here to advance my knowledge and understanding further.
  • Connie Mack While most of my ancestors begin in the New England Colonies late in the 17th century, two of my brick walls are traced to North Carolina in the early 19th century. I'm hoping to break through that wall.
  • Lynn Robinson I joined via Virginia and now North Carolina, specifically Catabwa County. Most of my husbands Robinson ancestors are from Catawba County and a few which surround them.
  • Debi Hoag - three of my four grandparents have deep roots in North Carolina, primarily Cabarrus, Anson, Mecklenburg, and Union counties
  • Riley Cassel - Primarily working with profiles/counties in Western North Carolina.
  • Kathryn Morse, My Virginia ancestors moved on down to Carolina.
  • Jordyn Porter-Meche - Various ancestors from around the state. Particular interest in Ashe & Davidson County history and genealogy.
  • Mary Richardson Project Coordinator with many ancestors from North Carolina
  • Dan Sparkman
  • Alice (Stephens) Thomsen - Many ancestors were born and raised in North Carolina. Interested in helping. United_States tag. Surnames: Vernon
  • JT Strong - particularly interested in colonial and antebellum Orange (and Durham) County.
  • Phillip (Weigt) Thompson -- Without the Carolinas there would not be much Tennessee, or a few other interesting places. Distant relative John Sevier took some relatives and other guys over to King's Mountain. Not to mention a few Quakers came down the Wagon Trail and settled right where I lived for 15 years.
  • Kendra Whitaker - my maternal lines are all from Western NC mostly Buncombe, Henderson, Jackson, Hayward, and Transylvania Counties. My daughter still lives in Transylvania County.
  • Allen (Woodard) Jensen My Paternal and Maternal lines both come from Virginia thru North Carolina to North Georgia. I am looking at the North Carolina to Virginia connections from early to mid 1700s. Surnames include Woodard/Woodward, Luke, Adams and others.
  • Lela (Cook) Howard My Paternal side Philip Cook about 1755 in Lincoln, NC. I have wills and land records.
  • Jon Smith - All 16 parts of my family arrived in the Hickory area by 1790 and stayed, so I focus on Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, Caldwell, Alexander, Iredell, Burke, Watauga, and McDowell Counties.
  • Feick-74 Several desendants migrated from Berks County, PA and relocated to Rowan, North Carolina and branched out from the Lukenbill/Luckenbill lineage
  • Bernice (Christy) Cresson. Native of Cabarrus County. I work on early settlers of Rowan and surrounding counties. And since Larry Hayer was a local there's a seemingly endless supply of his profiles to source.

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