Free Online North Carolina Digital Archives

The Ancestor Hunt has been cataloging and listing links to free online genealogy collections in over 24 different record categories since 2014. These are available for you to view and use via the Resources tab above.

There is a massive amount of genealogy and historical material that can help us researchers as we discover who belongs in our family tree, and more importantly, what is their life story. But much of this genealogical and historical material doesn’t fit nicely into a specific genealogy record category.

As researchers, we should avail ourselves of the types of materials listed below. They definitely will help us in our genealogy and family history research  These online resources are available generally at state libraries and archives, larger public libraries, and college and university digital collections. Hence the creation of these lists of links to free online digital archives for the state. I hope they prove useful to you in your pursuit

Types of Information Available in Digital Archives

• Scrapbooks
• Diaries
• Family Papers, Biographies, and Other Collections
• Letters
• Oral Histories
• Maps
• Bulletins and Newsletters
• Corporate Collections
• Local Community and County Histories
• Photographs and Postcards
• Rare Books and Manuscripts
• Government Publications and Documents
• and Yes, Genealogy Record Collections and Indexes

The Free Online Digital Archives for the state are listed below, preceded by Archives that are available for the region or the country:

Multistate Archives

• A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University (HBCU)
• Digital Commons Collections
• Digital Library of Appalachia
• Digital Public Library of America
• Documenting the American South
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• National Archives Online Exhibits
• PastPerfectOnline Collections
• Smithsonian Digital Library

North Carolina Archives

• Appalachian State University Digital Collections
• Bennett College Digital Collections
• Campbell University Digital Collections
• Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
• Davidson College Digital Collections
• Digital Durham
• DigitalNC – North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
• Duke University Digital Collections
• East Carolina University Digital Collections
• Elon University Digital Collections
• FamilySearch – North Carolina Online Genealogy Records
• Fayetteville State University Digital Collections
• John Hope Franklin Research Center For African And African American History & Culture
• National Archives at Atlanta
• NCpedia
• North Carolina A&T State University Digital Collections
• North Carolina Central University Digital Collections
• North Carolina Digital Collections
• North Carolina School of the Arts Digital Collections
• North Carolina State Archives
• North Carolina State University Digital Collections
• Rowan Public Library – Local History
• State Library of North Carolina
• The SNCC Digital Gateway
• UNC Wilson Library – Southern Historical Collection
• University of North Carolina – Asheville Digital Collections
• University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Digital Collections
• University of North Carolina – Charlotte Digital Collections
• University of North Carolina – Greensboro Digital Collections
• University of North Carolina – Pembroke Digital Collections
• University of North Carolina – Wilmington Digital Collections
• Wake Forest University Digital Collections
• Western Carolina University Digital Collections
• Winston-Salem State University Digital Collections