Historical and Cultural Links
Craven County, North Carolina
was originally named Archdale in 1705 when it was formed from Bath County and its name later changed to Craven in 1712 and named for
William Craven, The First Earl of Craven (1608-1697),
one of the eight Carolina Lord Proprietors.
A listing of the Craven County Daughter Counties and the
Formation of North Carolina Counties.
The Craven County Seal was designed and adopted in 1981
and is based upon the coat of arms of The Earl of Craven.
The seal motto “Virtus In Actione Consistit”
means “Virtue Consists In Action.”
was originally named Archdale in 1705 when it was formed from Bath County and its name later changed to Craven in 1712 and named for
William Craven, The First Earl of Craven (1608-1697),
one of the eight Carolina Lord Proprietors.
A listing of the Craven County Daughter Counties and the
Formation of North Carolina Counties.
The Craven County Seal was designed and adopted in 1981
and is based upon the coat of arms of The Earl of Craven.
The seal motto “Virtus In Actione Consistit”
means “Virtue Consists In Action.”
Craven County
Craven County Ancestry.com Message Board
Craven County & Surrounding Counties Obituary Index (Kellenberger Room)
Craven County Arts Council
Craven County Cemeteries at FindAGrave
Craven County Clerk of Superior Court
Craven County Community College
Craven County Community Foundation
Craven County Cooperative Extension
Craven County Genealogical Society Facebook
Craven County Genealogical Society Research Assistance
Craven County Genealogical Society Website
Craven County Genealogy at FamilySearch.org
Craven County Genforum Message Board (Inactive, but Searchable Archive)
Craven County Government GIS Maps
Craven County Government Main Website
Craven County Government Various Maps
Craven County Highway Historical Markers
Craven County History NCGenWeb.org
Craven County History NCPedia.org
Craven County History Wikipedia.org
Craven County History and Genealogy Facebook
Craven County Municipal City of Havelock
Craven County Municipal City of New Bern (County Seat)
Craven County Municipal Town of Bridgeton
Craven County Municipal Town of Cove City
Craven County Municipal Town of Dover
Craven County Municipal Town of River Bend
Craven County Municipal Town of Trent Woods
Craven County Municipal Town of Vanceboro
Craven County National Register of Historic Places Listings
Craven County Register of Deeds Main Website
Craven County Register of Deeds:
Old Index Books, 1739-1983 & New Index Books, 1984-Present
Craven County Rootsweb Mailing List & Archives
Craven-Pamlico Regional Library
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
Family History Society of Eastern North Carolina Facebook
Family History Society of Eastern North Carolina Website
Havelock-Craven County Visitors Center and Aviation Museum
James City Historical Society Facebook Page: Crockett-Miller Slave Quarters
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, New Bern
National Forest: Croatan National Forest
New Bern Civil War Battlefield
New Bern Farmers' Market
New Bern Firemen's Museum
New Bern Historic Trolley Tours
New Bern Historical Preservation Foundation
New Bern Historical Society
New Bern and Craven County Maps
New Bern-Craven County Public Library, Kellenberger Research Room
New Bern-Craven County Visitors Center History Links
New Bern Mumfest
NewBernNow.com
Newspaper: New Bern Sun Journal
Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive.com via Kellenberger Room
Swiss and German Palatines Who Settled New Bern in 1710
The Pepsi Store - The Birthplace of Pepsi!
Tryon Palace and The North Carolina History Center
Eastern North Carolina
Beaufort County Genealogcial Society
Beaufort County Register of Deeds
Beaufort, North Carolina Historical Association
Beaufort, North Carolina Maritime Museum
Carteret County Historical Society Museum and Research Library
Carteret County Register of Deeds
Carteret County Visitors Centers
CSS Neuse Museum & Gov. Caswell Memorial
CSS Neuse II Replica Gunboat
Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
Duplin County Public Library Genealogy Section
Duplin County Register of Deeds
Duplin County Visitors Center
East Carolina Roots
Eastern Carolina Village and Farm Museum (1840-1940)
Eastern North Carolina Genealogical Society Quarterly Review
Fort Macon State Park and Museum
Genealogical Records via NCLive.org (Free with NC Library Card)
Greene County Museum and Genealogical Society
Greene County Register of Deeds
Grifton Historical Museum & Catechna Indian Village Re-creation Facebook
Heritage Genealogical Society
of Greene, Jones, and Lenoir Counties Facebook
Heritage Genealogical Society of Greene, Jones, and Lenoir Counties Website (Jones County Cemetery Books)
Heritage Place Museum and Library at Lenoir Community College
Hyde County Historical and Genealogical Society
Hyde County Register of Deeds
John Lawson Legacy Days at the Grifton Historical Museum
Jones County African American Genealogy at NCGenWeb
Jones County Arts Council
Jones County Back In Time Museum
Jones County Cemeteries at FindAGrave.com
Jones County Community Foundation
Jones County Cooperative Extension
Jones County Genealogy at FamilySearch.org
Jones County Foscue Plantation
Jones County Friends of Brock's Mill Pond Facebook
Jones County Historical Society
Jones County Government Main Site
Jones County Government GIS
Jones County Government Register of Deeds Main Site
Jones County Government Register of Deeds Online Search (~1779-1977)
Jones County Government Register of Deeds Online Search (1978-Present)
Jones County Heritage Festival
Jones County Highway Historical Markers
Jones County History NCGenWeb
Jones County History NCPedia.org
Jones County History Wikipedia
Jones County Maps
Jones County National Register of Historic Places Listings
Jones County Rootsweb Mailing List & Archives
Jones County Things From Yesteryear Museum
Jones County Town of Maysville
Jones County Town of Pollocksville
Jones County Town of Trenton (County Seat)
Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce
Kinston-Lenoir County Visitor Center & Civil War Museum
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Centers
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Goldsboro
Latter-Day Saints History Research Center, Greenville
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Harkers Island
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Jacksonville
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Kinston
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Morehead City
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Washington
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Woodington
Lenoir County Historical Association at Harmony Hall Facebook
Lenoir County Register of Deeds
Liberty Hall Home & Museum, Kenansville, North Carolina
May Museum & Park, Farmville, North Carolina Facebook
May Museum & Park, Farmville, North Carolina Website
Native American Eastern North Carolina
at the Coastal Carolina Indian Center
Native American North Carolina Book,
The Tuscarora War, by Dr. David LaVere
Neuse Regional Library of Greene, Jones, and Lenoir Counties
New Hanover County Public Library, North Carolina Research Room
New Hanover County Register of Deeds
Newport Heritage Museum
Onslow County Museum and Research Room
Onslow County Public Library, Tucker Reed Littleton Research Room
Onslow County Register of Deeds
Onslow County Visitors Center
Old Dobbers (Glasgow-Greene, Lenoir, aka Dobbs County)
Pamlico County Heritage Center, Village, and Research Room Facebook
Pamlico County Heritage Center, Village, and Research Room Website
Pamlico County Register of Deeds
Pender County Poplar Grove Plantation Home & Musuem,
Scotts Hill, North Carolina
Pender County Public Library, Carolina Heritage Research Center:
(The William Dallas Herring Collection)
Pender County Register of Deeds
Pitt County Family Researchers
Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly
Pitt County Historical Society
Pitt County Register of Deeds
Sampson County Historical Society Facebook
Sampson County History Museum
Sampson County Register of Deeds
Swansboro Historical Association
Tryon Palace and the North Carolina History Center
North Carolina
African American Genealogy, North Carolina at FamilySearch.org
African American Genealogy, North Carolina at NC State Archives
African American (Free, Non-Enslaved) Genealogy, North Carolina
African American Special Projects, NCGenWeb
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
East Carolina University Digital Collection
East Carolina University Joyner Library Manuscript and Rare Book Collection
East Carolina University Joyner Library Special Collections
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies
Genealogical Records via NCLive.org (Free with NC Library Card)
The Huguenot Society of North Carolina
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Centers
Native American North Carolina Bureau of Indian Affairs
at the National Archive
Native American North Carolina Genealogy at FamilySearch.org
Native American North Carolina Tribes at NCPedia.org
North Carolina Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution
North Carolina Civil War History Center
North Carolina Collection at Ancestry.com
North Carolina Collection at FamilySearch.org
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center: Digital North Carolina Blog
North Carolina Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
North Carolina Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy
North Carolina Genealogical Society
North Carolina Genforum Message Board (Inactive, but Searchable Archive)
North Carolina Museum of History
North Carolina NCPedia.org
North Carolina Rootsweb Mailing List and Archives
North Carolina Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
North Carolina Society of Historians
North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (NCSHPO)
North Carolina NCGenWeb
Palatines to America German Genealogy Society, North Carolina Chapter
Preservation North Carolina
Scottish Heritage Society of Eastern North Carolina Facebook
Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
State Archives of North Carolina
State Library of North Carolina
This Day In North Carolina History
VisitNC.com
United States of America
African American Genealogy, United States
American Ancestors: New England Genealogical Society
American Battlefield Trust: Revolutionary and Civil Wars
BillionGraves.com
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database: Confederate & Yankee
Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
Documenting the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill
Latter Day Saints Family History Research Centers
Library of Congress
Military Records at Fold3.com
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Native American Genealogy at FamilySearch.org
New York Public Library Digital Collection, Waightstill Avery Letter, 1781
New York Public Library Digital Collection, Willie Jones Letter, 1781
Online Genealogy Links PDF by Mark West, 2016
Rootsweb Mailing Lists: United States, International, Surnames, Etc.
Scotch-Irish Society of the United States of America
Swiss American Historical Society
Swiss Center of North America
Union Veterans of The Civil War: Sons & Daughters
United States of America Collection at Ancestry.com
United States of America Collection at FamilySearch.org
United States Genforum Message Board (Inactive, but Searchable Archive)
United States USGenWeb
World
Africa Genealogy
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
Dutch, The Netherlands Genealogy
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
French Genealogy
Google.com
InternetArchive.org
Irish Genealogy
Jewish Genealogy
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Centers
Lebanese Genealogy
Scandinavian Genealogy
Scottish Genealogy
Spanish Genealogy
Swiss Genealogy
The Legal Genealogist
United Kingdom National Archives
Welsh Genealogy
World Collection at Ancestry.com
World Collection at FamilySearch.org
World Genforum Message Board (Inactive, but Searchable Archive)
Craven County Ancestry.com Message Board
Craven County & Surrounding Counties Obituary Index (Kellenberger Room)
Craven County Arts Council
Craven County Cemeteries at FindAGrave
Craven County Clerk of Superior Court
Craven County Community College
Craven County Community Foundation
Craven County Cooperative Extension
Craven County Genealogical Society Facebook
Craven County Genealogical Society Research Assistance
Craven County Genealogical Society Website
Craven County Genealogy at FamilySearch.org
Craven County Genforum Message Board (Inactive, but Searchable Archive)
Craven County Government GIS Maps
Craven County Government Main Website
Craven County Government Various Maps
Craven County Highway Historical Markers
Craven County History NCGenWeb.org
Craven County History NCPedia.org
Craven County History Wikipedia.org
Craven County History and Genealogy Facebook
Craven County Municipal City of Havelock
Craven County Municipal City of New Bern (County Seat)
Craven County Municipal Town of Bridgeton
Craven County Municipal Town of Cove City
Craven County Municipal Town of Dover
Craven County Municipal Town of River Bend
Craven County Municipal Town of Trent Woods
Craven County Municipal Town of Vanceboro
Craven County National Register of Historic Places Listings
Craven County Register of Deeds Main Website
Craven County Register of Deeds:
Old Index Books, 1739-1983 & New Index Books, 1984-Present
Craven County Rootsweb Mailing List & Archives
Craven-Pamlico Regional Library
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
Family History Society of Eastern North Carolina Facebook
Family History Society of Eastern North Carolina Website
Havelock-Craven County Visitors Center and Aviation Museum
James City Historical Society Facebook Page: Crockett-Miller Slave Quarters
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, New Bern
National Forest: Croatan National Forest
New Bern Civil War Battlefield
New Bern Farmers' Market
New Bern Firemen's Museum
New Bern Historic Trolley Tours
New Bern Historical Preservation Foundation
New Bern Historical Society
New Bern and Craven County Maps
New Bern-Craven County Public Library, Kellenberger Research Room
New Bern-Craven County Visitors Center History Links
New Bern Mumfest
NewBernNow.com
Newspaper: New Bern Sun Journal
Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive.com via Kellenberger Room
Swiss and German Palatines Who Settled New Bern in 1710
The Pepsi Store - The Birthplace of Pepsi!
Tryon Palace and The North Carolina History Center
Eastern North Carolina
Beaufort County Genealogcial Society
Beaufort County Register of Deeds
Beaufort, North Carolina Historical Association
Beaufort, North Carolina Maritime Museum
Carteret County Historical Society Museum and Research Library
Carteret County Register of Deeds
Carteret County Visitors Centers
CSS Neuse Museum & Gov. Caswell Memorial
CSS Neuse II Replica Gunboat
Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
Duplin County Public Library Genealogy Section
Duplin County Register of Deeds
Duplin County Visitors Center
East Carolina Roots
Eastern Carolina Village and Farm Museum (1840-1940)
Eastern North Carolina Genealogical Society Quarterly Review
Fort Macon State Park and Museum
Genealogical Records via NCLive.org (Free with NC Library Card)
Greene County Museum and Genealogical Society
Greene County Register of Deeds
Grifton Historical Museum & Catechna Indian Village Re-creation Facebook
Heritage Genealogical Society
of Greene, Jones, and Lenoir Counties Facebook
Heritage Genealogical Society of Greene, Jones, and Lenoir Counties Website (Jones County Cemetery Books)
Heritage Place Museum and Library at Lenoir Community College
Hyde County Historical and Genealogical Society
Hyde County Register of Deeds
John Lawson Legacy Days at the Grifton Historical Museum
Jones County African American Genealogy at NCGenWeb
Jones County Arts Council
Jones County Back In Time Museum
Jones County Cemeteries at FindAGrave.com
Jones County Community Foundation
Jones County Cooperative Extension
Jones County Genealogy at FamilySearch.org
Jones County Foscue Plantation
Jones County Friends of Brock's Mill Pond Facebook
Jones County Historical Society
Jones County Government Main Site
Jones County Government GIS
Jones County Government Register of Deeds Main Site
Jones County Government Register of Deeds Online Search (~1779-1977)
Jones County Government Register of Deeds Online Search (1978-Present)
Jones County Heritage Festival
Jones County Highway Historical Markers
Jones County History NCGenWeb
Jones County History NCPedia.org
Jones County History Wikipedia
Jones County Maps
Jones County National Register of Historic Places Listings
Jones County Rootsweb Mailing List & Archives
Jones County Things From Yesteryear Museum
Jones County Town of Maysville
Jones County Town of Pollocksville
Jones County Town of Trenton (County Seat)
Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce
Kinston-Lenoir County Visitor Center & Civil War Museum
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Centers
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Goldsboro
Latter-Day Saints History Research Center, Greenville
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Harkers Island
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Jacksonville
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Kinston
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Morehead City
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Washington
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Center, Woodington
Lenoir County Historical Association at Harmony Hall Facebook
Lenoir County Register of Deeds
Liberty Hall Home & Museum, Kenansville, North Carolina
May Museum & Park, Farmville, North Carolina Facebook
May Museum & Park, Farmville, North Carolina Website
Native American Eastern North Carolina
at the Coastal Carolina Indian Center
Native American North Carolina Book,
The Tuscarora War, by Dr. David LaVere
Neuse Regional Library of Greene, Jones, and Lenoir Counties
New Hanover County Public Library, North Carolina Research Room
New Hanover County Register of Deeds
Newport Heritage Museum
Onslow County Museum and Research Room
Onslow County Public Library, Tucker Reed Littleton Research Room
Onslow County Register of Deeds
Onslow County Visitors Center
Old Dobbers (Glasgow-Greene, Lenoir, aka Dobbs County)
Pamlico County Heritage Center, Village, and Research Room Facebook
Pamlico County Heritage Center, Village, and Research Room Website
Pamlico County Register of Deeds
Pender County Poplar Grove Plantation Home & Musuem,
Scotts Hill, North Carolina
Pender County Public Library, Carolina Heritage Research Center:
(The William Dallas Herring Collection)
Pender County Register of Deeds
Pitt County Family Researchers
Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly
Pitt County Historical Society
Pitt County Register of Deeds
Sampson County Historical Society Facebook
Sampson County History Museum
Sampson County Register of Deeds
Swansboro Historical Association
Tryon Palace and the North Carolina History Center
North Carolina
African American Genealogy, North Carolina at FamilySearch.org
African American Genealogy, North Carolina at NC State Archives
African American (Free, Non-Enslaved) Genealogy, North Carolina
African American Special Projects, NCGenWeb
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
East Carolina University Digital Collection
East Carolina University Joyner Library Manuscript and Rare Book Collection
East Carolina University Joyner Library Special Collections
Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies
Genealogical Records via NCLive.org (Free with NC Library Card)
The Huguenot Society of North Carolina
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Centers
Native American North Carolina Bureau of Indian Affairs
at the National Archive
Native American North Carolina Genealogy at FamilySearch.org
Native American North Carolina Tribes at NCPedia.org
North Carolina Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution
North Carolina Civil War History Center
North Carolina Collection at Ancestry.com
North Carolina Collection at FamilySearch.org
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center: Digital North Carolina Blog
North Carolina Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
North Carolina Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy
North Carolina Genealogical Society
North Carolina Genforum Message Board (Inactive, but Searchable Archive)
North Carolina Museum of History
North Carolina NCPedia.org
North Carolina Rootsweb Mailing List and Archives
North Carolina Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
North Carolina Society of Historians
North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (NCSHPO)
North Carolina NCGenWeb
Palatines to America German Genealogy Society, North Carolina Chapter
Preservation North Carolina
Scottish Heritage Society of Eastern North Carolina Facebook
Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
State Archives of North Carolina
State Library of North Carolina
This Day In North Carolina History
VisitNC.com
United States of America
African American Genealogy, United States
American Ancestors: New England Genealogical Society
American Battlefield Trust: Revolutionary and Civil Wars
BillionGraves.com
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database: Confederate & Yankee
Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
Documenting the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill
Latter Day Saints Family History Research Centers
Library of Congress
Military Records at Fold3.com
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Native American Genealogy at FamilySearch.org
New York Public Library Digital Collection, Waightstill Avery Letter, 1781
New York Public Library Digital Collection, Willie Jones Letter, 1781
Online Genealogy Links PDF by Mark West, 2016
Rootsweb Mailing Lists: United States, International, Surnames, Etc.
Scotch-Irish Society of the United States of America
Swiss American Historical Society
Swiss Center of North America
Union Veterans of The Civil War: Sons & Daughters
United States of America Collection at Ancestry.com
United States of America Collection at FamilySearch.org
United States Genforum Message Board (Inactive, but Searchable Archive)
United States USGenWeb
World
Africa Genealogy
DNA: AncestryDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com
DNA: FamilyTreeDNA.com Genetic Genealogy DNA Research Projects
DNA: GedMatch.com
DNA: MyHeritage.com
DNA: 23andMe.com
Dutch, The Netherlands Genealogy
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
French Genealogy
Google.com
InternetArchive.org
Irish Genealogy
Jewish Genealogy
Latter-Day Saints Family History Research Centers
Lebanese Genealogy
Scandinavian Genealogy
Scottish Genealogy
Spanish Genealogy
Swiss Genealogy
The Legal Genealogist
United Kingdom National Archives
Welsh Genealogy
World Collection at Ancestry.com
World Collection at FamilySearch.org
World Genforum Message Board (Inactive, but Searchable Archive)
These historical and cultural links are a work in progress
and are provided to assist you in your research.
Please let us know of any other historical or cultural resources
by sending us an email.
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Historical & Cultural Links Courtesy of
The Family History Society of Eastern North Carolina
and are provided to assist you in your research.
Please let us know of any other historical or cultural resources
by sending us an email.
Follow the Craven County Genealogical Society via Facebook and Email List.
Historical & Cultural Links Courtesy of
The Family History Society of Eastern North Carolina