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United States North Carolina  Archives and Libraries

These archives, libraries, societies, and museums preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in North Carolina.

National
National Archives at Atlanta 5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, Georgia 30260 Telephone: 770-968-2100 Fax: 770-968-2547 Email: [mailto:atlanta.archives@nara.gov atlanta.archives@nara.gov] Internet: http://www.archives.gov/atlanta/


 * Collects federal agency and court records for North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. They have both a Microfilm Research Room and an Archival Research Room. There is an extensive microfilm collection of value for genealogy research and general historical interest. Genealogy records include censuses, military service records, pensions and bounty-land, and Gulf Coast passenger arrivals. Subject specialties include the Vice Admiralty Court of South Carolina, Civil War and Reconstruction, organized crime, World Wars, the New Deal, and space exploration. The collection holds about 70,000 cubic feet of archival holdings from 1716 to the 1980s, primarily textual records but also maps, and photographs.

Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave. SE Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ G4 Washington, D.C. 20540-4660 Telephone: Reading Room: 202-707-5537 Fax:  202-707-1957 E-mail:  Ask a Librarian Internet: http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/


 * Use this library for its outstanding genealogical guides and indexes. They are part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, 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 are unchanged.

State
North Carolina State Archives 109 East Jones Street  (Mail to: 4610 Mail Service Center) Raleigh, NC 27699-4610 Telephone: 919-807-7310 Fax: 919-733-1354 E-mail: [mailto:archives@ncdcr.gov archives@ncdcr.gov] Internet: http://www.ncdcr.gov/archives/Home.aspx


 * Collection of country court records so large it has not all been cataloged. The North Carolina State Archives maintains original records of North Carolina governments on the state, district, and county levels. Includes audio visual material, government records, maps, War of 1812, Civil War, World Wars, newspapers, photos, county records, state agency records, veterans records, organization records, private collections, and defunct academic institution records.

State Library of North Carolina 109 East Jones Street  (Mail to: 4641 Mail Service Center) Raleigh, NC 27699-4641 Telephone:  919-807-7460 E-mail:  [mailto:slnc.reference@ncdcr.gov slnc.reference@ncdcr.gov] Internet: http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/index.html


 * 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.

Regional
A web page containing suggestions for genealogical research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is found at UNC Libraries Website

Two libraries at the University of North Carolina with departments and collections of interest to genealogists are the Wilson Library and the Davis Library.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – The Wilson Library

The Wilson Library includes the special collections, manuscript, and map departments. Addresses and holdings of the departments follow:


 * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill North Carolina Collection Wilson Library CB 3930 Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 Telephone: 919-962-1172 Email:[mailto:nccref@unc.edu nccref@unc.edu]


 * The North Carolina Collection contains published works on North Carolina and its people. The collection does not have original records. They have a file of newspaper clippings on North Carolina. The file does not include obituaries.


 * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Manuscript Department Wilson Library CB 3926 Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 Telephone: 919-962-1345 Fax:919-962-3594 Online inquiry: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/mailref.html


 * The Manuscript Department collects personal papers, letters, and diaries of early North Carolina residents. The Family History Library has the following guides to their manuscript collection:

A Guide to the Manuscript collections may be found at the Family History Library. The university’s Internet site contains an inventory of the records the Manuscript Department has received since they published the 1976supplement.


 * 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. ;

University of North Carolina Davis Library


 * North Carolina history, rare books, and the famous "Southern Historical Collection." They are a designated government depository for the state, including many federal papers.


 * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Davis Library CB3916 Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 Telephone: 919-962-1151

Duke University Perkins Library


 * Largest manuscript collection in the South, including newspapers, county records, Bibles, and journals. They also have many census records originally at the National Archives.

Duke University William R. Perkins Library Manuscript Department 104 Chapel Drive Durham, NC 27708 Telephone: 919-660-5800

Duke University has holdings on the American South and North Carolina. The libraries' collections contain published diaries, letters, papers, maps, newspapers, and public documents.

Trilley, Nannie M., and Noma Lee Goodwin, Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Duke University Library. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1947. This guide lists about 8,000 names of individuals, families, and historical subjects, and it is indexed.

Rowan Public Library


 * This library has manuscripts, diaries, journals, Bible records, and family folders from the crossroads of colonial North Carolina.

Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County


 * Virtually a second state archives for the southern part of the state. Emphasis is on Germans, Highland Scots, and Scots-Irish immigrants to North Carolina. Many references to Quakers moving from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. This collection has good indexes, biographies, family folders, and genealogies.

Genealogical Society of Old Tyron County


 * Use this library for finding books, periodicals, Bible records, obituaries, biographies and indexes for pre-Civil War people from both North Carolina and South Carolina.

McEachern Library of Local History


 * This library has the largest collection in North America of family folders for immigrants from Scotland, including the highland Scots who came to the Cape Fear River region of North Carolina.

Olivia Raney Local Library

Olivia Raney Local History Library 4016 Carya Drive Raleigh, North Carolina 27610 Phone: 919-250-1196

The collection of 18,178 items is primarily local and family history oriented, broadly interpreted to serve the diverse background of local residents today. One will find background materials on American, North Carolina and local history for students and researchers. For the genealogist, there is a variety of resources covering both American and international geographical areas. Researchers can contact library staff for more information.

Outside North Carolina
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library


 * Includes the Upper South's largest family folder collection which is heavy on North Carolina.

Knox County Public Library Calvin M. McClung Historical Collections 601 South Gay Street Knoxville, TN 37901-1629 Telephone: 865-215-8801 E-mail: [mailto:www.easttnhistory.org www.easttnhistory.org] Internet: http://www.knoxlib.org/


 * The McClung Historical Collection includes an index to early North Carolina families. No index in North Carolina can top this one. The same building also houses the Knox County Archives, and the East Tennessee Historical Society and Museum.

Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown 224 Church Street Santa Cruz, California 95060 Telephone: 831-427-7707 ext. 5794 E-mail: E-mail reference service form Internet: http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/


 * Holds the Genealogial Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including 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.

Guides
To learn more about the history and records of North Carolina counties, use the inventories that have been published for each county. These inventories have been printed in:


 * The Historical Records of North Carolina, 3 vols. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Historical Commission, 1938–39. The inventories are in alphabetical order by county.


 * Ellen Garrison, Archives in Appalachia: A Directory  (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). . . For Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, arranged alphabetically, each entry shows the archive, address, phone, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, subjects, and size of the collection. Indexed by record type, and by subject.

Guides and inventories for collections at archives and libraries can be found in the Family History Library Catalog by using a Place Search under:




 * NORTH CAROLINA, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES