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Ancestry.com This link opens in a new window
Ancestry Library Edition, is one of the most important genealogical collections available today with unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom. Its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest Online
ArchiveGrid This link opens in a new window
Access to primary source information, including birth and death records, ship logs, and cemetery records.
DigitalNC This link opens in a new window
NCLIVE Resource
Digital NC is home to tens of thousands of items, containing hundreds of thousands of digital images from cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina.
HeritageQuest via HeritageQuest This link opens in a new window
NCLIVE Resource
HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Collection contains information from US Census records, geneology and local history books, periodical source index, revolutionary war records and more
Digital Public Library This link opens in a new window
Online access to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural institutions.
ProQuest: Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window
3.5 million digitized pages of historic newspaper content from the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Sanborn Maps North Carolina via Sanborn Maps North Carolina This link opens in a new window
NCLIVE Resource
Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.