The Families of Northern Moore County - Abstract of Miscellaneous and Rare Records Volume II

Moore County NC has long been a challenging place to do genealogical research even more so if your family lived in Northern Moore County. Due to the immense loss of records in the 1889 Moore County courthouse fire combined with Northern Moores large mix of Scotch-Irish German Swiss English and other settlers who often kept to themselves and left very little evidence behind - genealogical and historical research on these families generally leaves researchers with no shortage of dead ends brick walls and ancestors who disappear into genealogical black holes. With this series Morgan Jackson (www.MooreCountyWallaces.com) seeks to shine a light on these families and piece together the records that survived the fire and the test of time.Utilizing over thirty years of personal research and a multitude of information from numerous sources he abstracts rare and hard to find land grants deeds church records school records wills estates tax lists pension records family bibles newspaper accounts and court records. This second volume abstracts thousands of these records in a timeline format dating from 1831-1929 including several hundred images and hard to find maps. A full name index includes over 11000 individuals and over 900 place names.