Libraries 

Duke University Special Collections Library 
East Carolina University's Joyner Library
State Library of North Carolina
State Library Genealogical Research
State Library of North Carolina Genealogical Research
North Carolina State University Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Manuscripts Department
The Library of Virginia Digital Collections

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) is a cataloging program organized by the Library of Congress.  RLIN is an online card catalog that make it possible to find out where information is.  Select the RLIN AMC search -- you can search a family name and other terms.  For example, you might be interested in the WINDSOR family; type "Windsor Family." 
 
 

North Carolina

North Carolina Resources at Roots-L: Databases and files online 
North Carolina Division of Archives and History  The folks here will check records and report back with results and price for any found documents. They take e-mail requests for document searches at: archives@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us.  The address is: 
   NC Div. of Archives and History 
   Archives and Records Section 
   109 East Jones Street 
   Raleigh, NC 27601-1807 
   You may also use their rather clunky TelNet to do a lookup yourself through their MARS system. Check the page at: 
   http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/archives/arch/mars.htm
North Carolina Genealogical Society
North Carolina Vital Records - birth, death, marriage, divorce -- how and where to get them 
Everton's Genealogy in North Carolina - just about everything you need to get started researching your NC roots. 
American Local History Network -- NC State Homepage http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nc/state1/
North Carolina Marriage Databasehttp://tn-3.rootsweb.com/~marce/ncarolina/index.html
North Carolina Gravestone Inscriptions Database  http://tn-3.rootsweb.com/~marce/ncarolina/cemetery.html  Searches may be done by county or last name.  You may add your gravestone inscriptions.
North Carolina Migrations Database - track the movement of people into and out of North Carolina
NC@YourServicehttp://www.ncgov.com/html/basic/index.html
Registers of Deeds by county many with e-mail addresses 
NC listings in the National Register of Historic Places, by county 
General Information on North Carolina http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/cover.htm

Maps

A clickable map of N.C. showing all the counties http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/map1.html
1895 Atlas online http://www.livgenmi.com/1895.htm
 
 

USGenWeb

USGenWeb Project
US GenWeb Archives - steadily growing archive of public record files and indexes.
The USGenWeb Census Project - North Carolina - census records for North Carolina
Tombstone Transcription Projecthttp://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/
The Way We Were - An Unauthorized History of the USGenWeb Project http://www.radix.net/~merope/history/ourhist.htm
 

War Pages

Revolutionary War

North Carolina in the Revolutionary War NCGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncrevwar/ncrevwar.htm
The National Society Children of the American Revolution
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

War of 1812
War of 1812 Records:  Where and How do I get them?
Military history: War of 1812 (1812-1814)

Civil War

A Brief Introduction to Genealogy and the American Civil War
American Civil War Era Genealogy
    http://angiesplace.behosting.com/roots/ncrebel.htm
American Civil War Homepage   http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
Camp Humes' Calvary Division newspaper article In the Field, Wayne County, NC April 3, 1865
Civil War Diaries; Location of Women's Diaries 
     http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/lotsofnames/cwdiaries.html
Fredericksburg Civil War Cemetery List .  Confederate soldiers buried around Fredericksburg,  Virginia. Listed in state order and also alphabetically by surname.
    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~helmsnc/FredCWCEM/
North Carolina Civil War Home Pagehttp://members.aol.com/~jweaver303/nc/nccwhp.htm
North Carolina Union Volunteershttp://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ncuv/ncuv.htm
Researching People of the Civil War Era
Selected Civil War Photographshttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html
The 21st North Carolina Troopshttp://www.tarheelconfederate.com/21st/21st.htm
The US Civil War Center - LSU's list of info available on the Internet http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
Union Civil War Prison at Elmira, NY
United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
United States Colored Troops Formed in North Carolina During the Civil War
War of the Rebellion.  Cornell University has placed online all volumes of the War of the Rebellion.  Included are scanned images of reports, correspondence, seizures of Southern property, etc. sent to the War Department during the Civil War (also known as the War of the Rebellion, the War of Northern Aggression, the War between the States, and the War).  It includes both Union and Confederate accounts. It is in chronological order but there is no online index.  Many libraries have the index.  Find  the volume and page number for your subject in the index at the library, then read the actual pages at http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/MOA-JOURNALS2/WARO.html
 
 

Spanish-American War

The Spanish American War Centennial
Spanish-American War Page

World War I
About World War I Draft cards http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/learningcenter.html

World War II 

North Carolina in World War IIhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~ncwwii/NC-WWII.htm

Order forms for military service and pension and other family history records

A "pension" record is not the same as a "military" record.  It's important which one you order.

The "pension" record is the one that contains the most genealogical information.  This contains a man's (or widow or dependent's) application, giving identifying information about the applicant and the military service performed:  usually complete date of birth, place of birth, date and place of entry into service, military unit designation.  Often contains questionnaires filled out by the pensioner with name of spouse and children, date and place of marriage.  When the pensioner is dropped from the pension roll because of death, the complete death date is often given in the "drop report".

Ordering the "military" record can be disappointing.  It may contain little biographical information - possibly only the man's name, age and residence at enlistment, where he entered the service, unit designation, rank attained, where and when discharged.  Sometimes they show where the man was born.  Shows the man's whereabouts during his period in the service.  May give details on temporary duty assignments, illnesses or wounds received and show where and when hospitalized.

Papers are "selected" from a file to be copied and sent to you, and there is no guarantee that you'll receive those that may be of most importance to you.  You'll never know exactly what treasures are in a pension record unless you order the entire file.  Depending on the size of the file, it may be expensive to order.  My understanding is that effective September 1, 2000, the entire file will be sent when ordering, and the fee at that time for copies will be $17.50.

A selection of genealogy and Southern history books is available at Diana's Book House for purchase.  Thanks for your support which helps to sponsor this page. 

Family Homepages

Roberts Family data can be found at  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6738
Holland Family History and Tree is online at http://www.betterthanmost.com/holland/
Barnes Family History http://members.skyweb.net/~korbach/1790wayne.htm
Pate Family at http://home.earthlink.net/~wspate/
 

Other Helpful Links

Copyright Information
U.S. Copyright Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
U.S. Copyright Statute: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/title17/
For the UK:
The Patent Office (UK): http://www.patent.gov.uk/dpolicy/
Her Majesty's Stationery Office: http://www.hmso.gov.uk/copyhome.htm
Copyright at the Public Record Office: http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/copyright/default.htm
UK Data Protection Act of 1998: http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm
Public Domain and Intellectual Property Issues for  Genealogists:    http://www.bright.net/~webmarji/GenPD/

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