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  E-mail 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

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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). ;.

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Overlapping Collections


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