University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries

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Contact Information
Two libraries at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill which have collections of interest to genealogists are:

E-mail:


 * Wilson Special Collections Library  [mailto:nccref@unc.edu nccref@unc.edu]
 * Davis Library  Email a Question form

Address:


 * Wilson Special Collections Library 200 South Road Wilson Library (Campus PO Box #3948) UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890 Telephone: 919-962-1172


 * Davis Library 208 Raleigh Street (Campus PO Box #3916) UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Telephone: 919-962-1151

Hours and Directions:


 * Wilson Special Collections Library  Hours and Directions.
 * Davis Library  Hours, Directions, and Parking.

Internet sites and databases:


 * UNC Chapel Hill Libraries libraries and hours, research tools, using the library, research and learning, about us, library news, and current exhibits.
 * UNC Chapel Hill Libraries Catalog search by keyword, title, author, subject, ISBN, publisher, OCLC number, or call number.
 * Family History and Genealogy Resources in the North Carolina Collection online catalog, NC biographical index, newspaper clippings, and censuses.
 * Orange County History Guide - Genealogy biographies, family and local histories, marriage and death newspaper notices, land grants, cemeteries and marriage bonds.

Collection Description
Wilson Special Collections Library  is home to: the famed Southern Historical Collection with strengths in plantation records, slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights, communities, family, race relations, and religious communities ; the North Carolina Collection of published works on North Carolina and its people and biographical index ; the Rare Book Collection; the Southern Folklife Collection; the Manuscript Department  collection of personal papers, letters, and diaries of early North Carolina residents; and the Map Department.

Davis Library has humanities, and foreign language materials, maps, a federal documents depository, and microforms.

Tips
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Guides

 * Blosser, Susan Sokol, and Clyde Norman Wilson Jr. The Southern Historical Collection: A Guide to Manuscripts (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Library, 1970). ; . This guide may help you locate biographical and local history information pertaining to a family.
 * Smith, Everard H. Southern Historical Collection: Supplementary Guide to Manuscripts, 1970–1975 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Library, 1976). ;.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * Library of Congress, Washington, DC, is the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, books, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources. The Local History and Genealogy Reading Room has moved to the Main Reading Room, but services remain unchanged.
 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service &amp; pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.
 * National Archives at Atlanta records of federal agencies and courts for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, censuses, ships lists, naturalizations, Indian records, and military records.
 * North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, has so many county court records they have not all been cataloged, NC government records at the state, district, and county levels, maps, War of 1812, Civil War, World Wars, newspapers, photos, organization records, private collections, and defunct academic institution records.
 * State Library of North Carolina, Raleigh, has Internet genealogy databases; digital: family Bibles, marriages, deaths, newspapers, and cemetery photos; genealogy guides; and county records.

Similar Collections


 * Duke University Perkins Library, Durham, largest manuscript collection in the South, including newspapers, county records, Bibles, and journals. Also census records from the National Archives.

Neighboring Collections

Repositories in surrounding counties: Alamance, Caswell, Chattam, Durham, Granville, Person, and Wake. Repositories in other surrounding states: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
 * North Carolina Vital Records, Raleigh, order for a fee births since 1913, deaths since 1930, marriages since 1962, and divorces since 1958.
 * Orange County Register of Deeds births and deaths since 1913, marriages from 1754, divorces from 1869, probate records from 1856, and civil court records from 1865.
 * Orange County Clerk of Superior Court probate records since 1752.
 * North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, Raleigh, publishes NC Historical Review.
 * Chapel Hill Historical Society programs, publications, newsletter, and town treasures.
 * North Carolina Genealogical Society, Raleigh, NC Revolutionary War petitions and index, NC Loose Estates Records indexing project, newsletter, and society publications.
 * Durham-Orange Genealogical Society surnames, cemeteries, events, membership, queries, links, look ups, publications, and blog.
 * U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina criminal and civil court records.
 * Olivia Raney Local History Library, Raleigh, Internet databases, books, maps, photos, and files, and states from which Carolinians emigrated such as Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
 * Moravian Church Archives, Winston-Salem, for Moravians in southern states some diaries with name indexes, memoirs, published family histories, and research service for an hourly fee.
 * North Carolina Friends Historical Society, Greenboro, history of Quakers in North Carolina.
 * Presbyterian Heritage Center Research Library, Montreat, 35,000 books, Presbyterian church and congregation records, minutes, periodicals, church and mission histories.
 * Chattanooga Public Library Downtown, Tennessee, has the Upper South's largest family folder collection which is heavy on North Carolina, Internet genealogy databases, census, newspapers, obituary index, county records, 30,000 books, manuscripts, and genealogical periodicals.
 * Knox County Public Library, Tennessee, has the best index to North Carolina families, Internet genealogy databases, 75,000 books, genealogies, First Families of Tennessee, manuscripts, censuses, state and local government records, newspapers, Knoxville city directories, maps, and photos.
 * Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown, California, holds the Tina Brayton Collection which is equivalent to the Draper Manuscript Collection  but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia  families.