History & Genealogy

Annals of American History
This is a large collection of primary source materials from American history including sound & video from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Ancestry Library Online
This genealogical database includes federal and state census, church, military, court, land, probate, immigration and vital records. (Access to Ancestry.com is not available outside of the library.)

Digital Mooresville
This site has a web-based collection of photographs, documents, maps and images that depict the history of Mooresville from the earliest images to the present. Digital Mooresville preserves and promotes the history and heritage of Mooresville and the surrounding area by making that history available to researchers, teachers, students and others in an online environment.

Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South includes books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews and songs related to southern history, literature and culture.

Heritage Quest
Genealogy buffs or historians may search federal census records, family histories, local histories, the Periodical Source Index and more with records from 1700 to the present.

NC LIVE Video Collection
This collection contains more than 250 high-quality documentary and educational video programs produced for PBS, covering the sciences, U.S. and world history, biographies, current events, the arts, and a variety of other subjects. Several educational series for children are included.

Sanborn Maps North Carolina
This site contains Sanborn fire insurance maps from 1867-1970 for all parts of North Carolina.