State Library of North Carolina

United States North Carolina  Archives and Libraries  

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:slnc.reference@ncdcr.gov slnc.reference@ncdcr.gov]

Address:


 * 109 East Jones Street
 * (Mail to: 4641 Mail Service Center)
 * Raleigh, NC 27699-4641

Telephone: 919-807-7460

Hours and holidays: Closed on state holidays.


 * Government and History Research Room, First Floor Mon.- Fri. 8:30am - 5:00pm
 * Genealogy Services, Mezzanine Tues.-Fri. 8:30am - 5:00pm; Saturdays: 9:00am-2:00pm

Map, public transportation, driving directions, and parking

Internet sites and databases:


 * State Library of North Carolina government and heritage library, library development, library for the blind and handicapped, catalogs, services, and resources.
 * Government and Heritage Library Online Catalog search by title, keyword, subject, author, series, and call number.
 * Genealogy Research online, on site, interlibrary loan, county records, and census records.
 * North Carolina Family Records Online Bible records, newspaper marriage and death notices, family history books, and cemetery photos.

Collection Description
Great collection of books, periodicals, and genealogies for North Carolina. Their collection includes genealogy databases; digital: family Bibles, marriages, deaths, newspapers, and cemetery photos; genealogy guides; county records including wills, deeds, marriages, court minutes, tax lists, and probate records.

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Guides

 * Government Information State government information: online, in print, NC MOSAIC, State Government website archives, census data 1960-1980, and state agency databases ; federal government documents: federal documents available, FDsys online fed gov doc access, and suggested websites and publications.
 * North Carolina Newspapers.


 * Databases A large list of links to many genealogical site within the library.
 * Digital collections, including Family Records Six Digital Genealogical Collection Online.
 * How To:
 * Getting started in genealogy
 * Finding slave records
 * Sources for North Carolina vital records
 * Tracking Back to North Carolina (pdf)
 * North Carolina county formation
 * North Carolina newspapers
 * Tennessee counties originally in North Carolina

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 remiain unchanged.
 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service and 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.

Similar Collections


 * 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.

Neighboring Collections


 * North Carolina Vital Records, Raleigh, order for a fee births since 1913, deaths since 1930, marriages since 1962, and divorces since 1958.
 * Wake County Register of Deeds births since 1913, marriages since 1770, deaths since 1913, and land entries since 1774.
 * Wake County Clerk of Superior Court probate records since 1770.
 * North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, Raleigh, publishes NC Historical Review.
 * Wake County Historical Society program archives, newsletter, and photos.
 * North Carolina Genealogical Society, Raleigh, NC Revolutionary War petitions and index, NC Loose Estates Records indexing project, newsletter, and society publications.
 * Wake County Genealogical Society meetings, newsletter, journal, and local genealogy publications.
 * Olivia Raney Local History Library, Raleigh, Internet databases, books, maps, photos, and files, and states from which North Carolinians emigrated such as Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
 * U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina criminal and civil court records.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Chattam, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, Johnston, and Nash.
 * UNC Chapel Hill Libraries have the famed Southern Historical Collection  of plantation records, slavery, Civil War, families, religious communities, Civil Rights, NC books and their biographical index.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Repositories in other surrounding states: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
 * 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 Collection but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia  families.