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).
  • Index, Raleigh News & Observer, 1926-1992.
  • Civil War resources.
  • Index to vols. 1-20 of North Carolina Troops 1861-1865, a Roster.
  • War of 1812 Pay Vouchers.
  • A recently updated 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 records. 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:
  • Digital Collections at Appalachian State University.
  • Digital Collections, Duke University.
  • Digital Collections,from East Carolina University. Includes NC History and Fiction Collection and medical resources.
  • Special Collections, North Carolina Central University.
  • Digital Collections from North Carolina State University.
  • Digital Collections, 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  
  
• Colonial and State Records thru DocSouth.
• North Carolina laws, published 1773.
• 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.
• Revolutionary War Soldiers for NC and SC.
• For Soundex census index images of the original cards, search by Soundex and state name at Archive.org.
• 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.
• 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.

Maps and Geography
• Historic North Carolina Topo Sheets.
• North Carolina Maps from the State Archives and UNC-Chapel Hill.
• About maps, the Historic North Carolina Maps Blog.
• Precincts and Parishes, 1715 - 1729.
• County Formation interactive slide show -- pick a date.
• County Chronologies.
• Historic Mapping Congress.
• Historical North Carolina Maps Guide.
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• North Carolina Postal History Society, post office locations.
• American Revolution Tour of North Carolina/
• Walton County, GA, now in NC.

Mailing Lists & Message Boards
• An NC directory.
• NC Reunions.
• Genforum NC. Click counties link for individual forums. This site is now read only; there will be no further posts.

Religious Groups:
• North Carolina Church Records wiki article.
• NC Baptist Historical Collection and the Biblical Recorder, 1833-1970, at Wake Forest Univ.
• Lutheran Genealogy. Start here.
• United Methodist Church records. Collection at Duke.
• South Carolina United Methodist Collection at Wofford College. Obit index includes deaths from other states.
• Moravian Church Genealogy Links.
• Presbyterian Historical Society. National.
• North Carolina Presbyerian Historical Society.
• Associate Reformed Presbyterian information at McCain Library, Erskine College, SC.
• Friends Historical Collection. Quaker records at Guilford College.
• List of Pastors and Ministers with their denomination, and years and location of service.

Societies:
• List of NC genealogy societies. Undated.
• North Carolina Genealogical Society.
• NC Chapter, Association of Professional Genealogists.
• Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont Genealogical Society: Franklin, Henry, Pittsylvania and Halifax in Virginia and Rockingham, Caswell and Person in North Carolina.
• Broad River Genealogical Society.

Native Americans
• Genealogy background from FamilySearch.
• North Carolina tribal communities with Map.
• American Indian Tribes in North Carolina.
• UNC American Indian Center.
• Native American History in North Carolina - some dates.

Counties:

• Miscellaneous
  • 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.
  
  
• Caldwell County
  • Register of Deeds.
  
  
• Chatham County
  • Chatham County Historical Association.
  • Excerpts: Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, (1774-1779).
  • Deeds.
  • Poe family records in NC and Chatham.
  
  
• Gaston & Lincoln
  • GCPL Guides.
  • Digital Gaston County.
  • Biography Index.
  • Ulrichsburg aka Crowder Town.
  
  
• Guilford County
  • Greensboro Libraries genealogy links.
  • High Point Public Library genealogy links.
  • Guilford County Genealogical Society.
  • Register of Deeds.
  
  
• Mecklenburg County
  • Register of Deeds, searchable vital and land records.
  • Known Cemeteries & Burial Records.
  • Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society.
  • History & Genealogy at the Public Library.
  • Newspaper Abstracts Search from the Library.
  
  
• Randolph County
  • Obituaries Index.
  • Randolph County Genealogical Society.
  
  

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