The Stanly County Genealogy Home Page

Stanly County, North Carolina, was formed in 1841 from Montgomery County. The county seat is Albemarle.

The Stanly County page is maintained by Leah Sims.
Click here to e-mail Leah: lcsims@eskimo.com

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There are several other Stanly County-related boards located on for-profit sites. These may contain advertising, and may also claim copyright to your postings.
GenForum (Family Tree Maker site)
Stanly Co. Board at Rootsweb/Ancestry

Libraries and Museums
The Margaret Johnston Heritage Room At The Stanly County Public Library
The Stanly County Historic Preservation Commission and Stanly Co. Museum

Links to Stanly Co. towns

Albemarle

Norwood

Badin

Oakboro

OTHER Stanly County INTERNET RESOURCES

NCGenWeb

NC USGenWeb Archives, Stanly County

NC in the Revolutionary War

NCGenWeb Tombstone Transcription project

NC Census Project

North Carolina Births, Marriages and Deaths databases

Questions and Answers about NC History and Genealogy

Stanly Co. page at Rootsweb

Information about the formation of each North Carolina County and the availability of will records

Last modified 2 September 2003.

THE Stanly County MAILING LIST

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RESOURCES AND LOOK-UPS

e-mail Leah to request a lookup from one of these documents:

1800-1840 Montgomery County censuses

1860 Stanly Co. census

1870 Stanly Co. census

Marriages 1851-1904

Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1841-1850

Stanly Co., Cemetery Records

Stanly County Genealogical Journal, vol. 1-15

List of Stanly County Soldiers in the Civil War

The following documents can be read or search online:

Stanly Co. Research Guide

Facts and Myths about Indians in Stanly Co.

Stanly Co. Death Certificates

1850 Stanly Co. Census

1880 U.S. Census at the Church of Latter-day Saints website

42nd Regiment, Company C., North Carolina, Confederate Army

42nd Regiment, Company H., North Carolina, Confederate Army

Kendall's Cemetery

Anderson Grove Cemetery

Running Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery

Index to Stanly Co. Estate Records

Abstracts of Stanly Co. Will Book II, 1868-1910

19th Century Stanly Co. Divorces

Page about Gold Mines in Stanly Co. and surrounding counties

Many Stanly Co. Cemeteries at the Stanly Co. NCGenWeb Archives

ADDRESSES

Stanly County Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 31
Albemarle, NC 28002

Membership in this non-profit organization is seven dollars a year.

Cecil Almond
Register of Deeds
P. O. Box 97
Albemarle, NC 28002

Death certificates from this government agency are three dollars.

Books About Stanly County

THE MARGARET JOHNSTON HERITAGE ROOM AT THE Stanly County PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Margaret Johnston Heritage Room at the Stanly County Public Library, 133 East Main Street, Albemarle, NC 28001. Phone (704) 986-3768.
The Margaret Johnston Heritage Room offers many resources to genealogists and local history buffs. The Heritage Room is widely regarded as one of the best in the region. Recent acquisitions include the following multi-volume sets: The Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865; Confederate Military History; The Campaigns of the Civil War; The Civil War at Sea. Some notable single volumes include local author Michael Taylor's To Drive the Enemy From Southern Soil; Extracts From the Letters of Major-General Bryan Grimes to his Wife; and many others. The Heritage Room has good coverage of NC censuses, and many counties' marriage records, deed abstracts, land entries, etc., plus a great deal of Virginia information. They have Internet access for searching GenWeb resources. The Stanly County Public Library is currently working on a webpage, so please look for it in the future.