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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]


 * 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

North Carolina State Library

Regional
University of North Carolina Davis Library

Duke University Perkins Library

Rowan Public Library

Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County

Genealogical Society of Old Tyron County

McEachern Library of Local History

Outside North Carolina
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library

Knox County Public Library

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