The following resources may help you locate deceased individuals of Wake County
Obituaries/Death Notices
- Online Sources
- 1799-early 1900s – Wake County Deaths – reported in various newspapers; an ongoing project
- 1950-1957 – Wake County men who died during the Korean War
- Miscellaneous Wake County obituaries – dates vary
- Obituaries @ the Wake County NCGenWeb archives – date ranges vary
- Print Sources
- Bridges, Myrtle N. News Items & Death Notices in Weekly Standard, a Newspaper Printed in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1859-1864. Angier, NC: M.N. Bridges, 2003. [Index Available Free Online or Find in a Library]
- Neal, Lois S., A. T. Skeen, Elizabeth E. Ross, and Frances Holloway Wynne. Abstracts of Vital Records from Raleigh, North Carolina, Newspapers. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co, 1979. [Find in a Library]
Death Certificates
- 1900-1909 – Death Certificates from the Wake County Health Department
- 1906-1930 – NC Death Certificates – 1906-1930 – free from Family Record Search; includes microfilm images of death certificates
Additional Resources for Death Information
- North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994 – from Family Record Search
- Social Security Death Index (learn more) – freely available from
- GenealogyBank (updated weekly; requires registration)
- FamilySearch