Links to Forsyth County Genealogical Records and Query Sites GENERAL GENEALOGY SITES Forsyth County NCGenWeb Archives Forsyth County query board at Rootsweb.com Forsyth County query board at GenForum There is a Forsyth County e-mail list. To subscribe, or search the archives, please visit the NCFORSYT list page If you're researching Forsyth area ancestors before 1850, you may also want to subscribe to the NCSTOKES list, which covers the early history of both counties. CENSUS AND TAX RECORDS 1759 Rowan County Tax List includes the area that eventually became Forsyth County census township map at S-K Publications 1850 Forsyth County Heads of Household Project 1786 Surry County Taxables (present-day Forsyth) 1790 - 1840 Stokes County NC Federal Census (Forsyth was part of Stokes Co. until 1849) 1850 Davie County Heads of Household Project (neighboring county) Surry County NC Federal Census (neighboring county) 1850 Surry County Heads of Household Project (neighboring county) Forsyth County - 1898, a list of major businesses, attorneys, county officials CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES St. Philips Church near Old Salem, the oldest standing African American church building in North Carolina and one of the oldest in the South   Old Salem Guidebook, index to names, lookups, by Debi McGee Cundiff Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church at Tanglewood cemetery transcription and photos by Virginia Flesher Bethabara Moravian Church This is a site specificaly for the church, not the cemetery. However, there are entries from this cemetery, including pictures, on Find A Grave The Political Graveyard - The Political Graveyard - Forsyth County - famous and infamous people associated with Forsyth County Dobbs Parish Graveyard Records Moravian Church Genealogy Links, page by Sue Schlack. Also see Sue's lists of Moravian surnames A-L names and M-Z names. Quite a few North Carolina names are included. photographs of some Forsyth and Yadkin church cemeteries by Steve Binkley MARRIAGE RECORDS The Forsyth County Genealogical Society has published three books of marriage records, spanning the period from 1849 through 1889. More recent Forsyth Co. marriage license information can be obtained from the Forsyth Co. Register of Deeds. MILITARY Civil War deserters From Cindy Casey, articles from the People's Press regarding deserters from the Forsyth Co. area. Includes many names of men arrested. Union survivors 1890 From Cindy Casey, Forsyth Co. men who served in the Union forces, special schedule to 1890 census Davis Military Academy From Cindy Casey, news items from 1891-1892 about the Davis School in Forsyth County 21st NC Troops. The web page for this Confederate re-enactment unit includes the complete rosters of all companies in the NC 21st, which was drawn from Stokes, Forsyth, Guilford and neighboring counties. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park In neighboring Guilford County, but not far from Forsyth. Civil War pension applicants - from Cindy Casey Col. Joseph Winston 1892 newspaper article President George Washington in Salem, 1791 The Southern Claims Commission, A little known source of genealogical information Hyde County, NC US GenWeb Project     John McGowan has posted the rosters of the companies formed during the Civil War from Hyde Co. In Co. H, 33rd Regt., NCST, includes a number of soldiers from Forsyth Co. The Revolutionary War Battle of Shallow Ford     Ann Brownlee's page of research on a battle in what is now Yadkin Co., October 14, 1780. Another page by Ann Brownlee: The Struggle for Independence in North Carolina

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