Bookmarks : Genealogy: North Carolina
Resource and Database Sites:
- North Carolina Digital Collections from the State Archives and State Library. There is an overall search and browse on the home page.
Includes:
- North Carolina Historical Review.
- North Carolina Family Records; includes bibles,newspaper abstracts, family histories.
- State Government Publications including Session Laws, House and Senate Journals, and Public Documents.
- Our State [The State], 1933 - 2018.
- Early North Carolina Newspapers. 18th cent + The Western Carolinian, [1820-1842] and Carolina Watchman, [1832-1898] from Salisbury. Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1789-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington (1765-1816).
- Civil War resources. Also 1885 Confederate Pension Applications and 1901 Confederate Pension Applications.
- Index to vols. 1-20 of North Carolina Troops 1861-1865, a Roster.
- War of 1812 Pay Vouchers.
- A will index to 1900.
- N. B.: Do a separate search in the State Archives Online Catalog for material not in the digital collections search.
- DigitalNC, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center: city directories, newspapers, photographs, yearbooks, etc. from UNC and other collections.
- FamilySearch, Getting started with North Carolina research. Prime source for original county records.
- North Carolina Land Grant Images and Data.
- North Carolina Vital Records Guide from North Carolina Genealogical Society.
- University digital resources:
- Special Collections at Appalachian State University.
- Campbell University Archives, holds Little River Baptist Association Minutes.
- Davidson College Archives and Special Collections.
- Digital Collections, Duke University.
- Digital Collections,from East Carolina University. Includes NC History and Fiction Collection and medical resources.
- Elizabeth City State University Archives.
- Elon University Archives and Special Collections.
- Fayetteville State University Archives and Special Collections.
- Special Collections, North Carolina Central University.
- Digital Collections from North Carolina State University.
- Archives, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Includes North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisments.
- DigitalCollections, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library and specifically Genealogy. Follow their blog NC Miscellany for info on the North Carolina Collection.
- University of North Carolina at Asheville Special Collections.
- Digital Collections at University of North Carolina at Charlotte includes resources from the city of Charlotte, the county of Mecklenburg, and some local individuals and organizations.
- Gateway, collections from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and other institutions, community groups, and individuals in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad Region.
- University of North Carolina at Pembroke Special Collections and Archives.
- Digital Collections, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
- Digital Collections at Wake Forest University including North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection.
- Digital Collections from Western Carolina University. Includes selections from the Cherokee Phoenix.
- Winston-Salem State University Digital Collections.
- Colonial and State Records thru DocSouth.
- North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Journals, proceedings, etc.
Historical Marker database.
- North Carolina at CemeteryCensus. See also FindaGrave.com and Billion Graves.com.
- North Carolina GenWeb.
- North Carolina Yearbook Index. (See also Yearbooks in DigitalNC.)
- List of Registered Motor Vehicle Owners published about 1919.
- North Carolina at Access Genealogy. Collection of links including to African American and Native American sites.
- African American Genealogy Resources from North Carolina Genealogical Society.
- Revolutionary War Soldiers for NC and SC.
- For Soundex census index images of the original cards for 1880, 1910, 1920,and 1930, search by Soundex, state name, and census year at Archive.org.
- North Carolina laws, published 1773.
- North Carolina Supreme Court PDF volumes, final book publication of opinions (with headnotes), orders, and more in the North Carolina Reports and North Carolina Court of Appeals Reports, 1778-.
- A digest of all the reported cases
both in law and equity, determined in the courts of North Carolina, from the earliest period to the present year, together with a table of the names of the cases, pub. 1866.
Mailing Lists & Message Boards
- North Carolina. You do not have to have an Ancestry membership to use this.
- Genforum NC. Click counties link for individual forums. This site is now read only; there will be no further posts.
Counties:
- Henry E. McCulloch survey book, 1762-1773, surveys and plans of lands in Rowan, Guilford, and Anson counties, N.C., belonging to McCulloh, with lists of lands sold or to be sold in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
Chatham County Historical Association.
Chatham County at Carolana.com.
Excerpts: Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, (1774-1779).
Register of Deeds.
Poe family records in NC and Chatham.
Gaston Lincoln Genealogical Society.
Gaston County Public Library Genealogy and Local History.
Digital Gaston County compiled by the library.
Gaston Lincoln Biography and History Index.
Ulrichsburg aka Crowder Town.
Greensboro Libraries genealogy links.
High Point Public Library genealogy links.
Guilford County Genealogical Society.
Register of Deeds.
Register of Deeds, searchable vital and land records.
Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society.
History & Genealogy Exhibits at the Public Library. Includes Known Cemeteries and newspaper abstracts.
Obituary Indexes.
Randolph County Genealogical Society.
This page last updated 5 Oct 2024.
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