New Bern-Craven County
Public Library

a member of the Craven-Pamlico-Carteret Regional Library System

History and Genealogy Resources

Resources available through:

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography via Greenwood  

HeritageQuest via HeritageQuest

ABC-CLIO E-book Collection
Gale Virtual Reference Library via Gale North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press
PBS Video Collection via NC LIVE Collections Sanborn Maps North Carolina via Sanborn Maps North Carolina
   
Additional resources available on the web:
AfriGeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy arcalife: Where Family Memories Live On.
Best of History Web Sites Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records
CivilWar.com Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet  
Dear Myrtle Documenting the American South
eHistory Ellis Island
FamilySearch.org Find-A-Grave
Footnote (Subscription site, but some resources are available free) TheHistoryNet--Where History Lives on the Web
The History Channel Interment.net
JewishGen  
National Archives and Records Adminstration National Park Service Civil War Homepage
Nationwide Veteran Gravesite Locator North Carolina Family Records Online
Reference on the Web: The Civil War
Rootsweb.com
World GenWeb Project (links to worldwide genealogy projects like USGenWeb)

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Updated:April 10, 2013