Major Repositories & Libraries
Where the big collections live—state, university, and national.
- State Archives of North Carolina — cornerstone for state-level and many county records
- State Library of North Carolina
- DigitalNC — newspapers, yearbooks, maps, and more
- North Carolina Digital Collections
- FamilySearch — catalog, images, wiki
- U.S. National Archives
- Library of Congress
- University special collections (UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, NC State, ECU, and others) for manuscripts and family papers
Also see the Resources hub and each county page for local societies and government links.