The Local History & Genealogy Specialist works out of the May Memorial Library and may be contacted directly at [email protected]. Limited inquiries may be answered via mail if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is provided.
Genealogy from Home
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- Family Search - Access contributed family trees and records compiled by the Mormon (Latter Day Saints) Church – https://www.familysearch.org/register/custom/1
- World War I Civilian Draft Registrations: Find records for prospective soldiers from 100 years ago-the original “pandemic” generation – https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3172/
- North Carolina City Directories via Digital NC – https://www.digitalnc.org/collections/city-directories/
- UNC-G Digital Library on American Slavery – https://library.uncg.edu/slavery/
- Free genealogy classes
Requires your 14-digit library card number (beside the barcode on your card)
- “Finding Your Roots” TV program episodes via “Films on Demand”: Watch 1-hour episodes of the televised genealogy program with Henry Louise Gates (23 available) – https://access.infobase.com/search?q=finding%20your%20roots
Online Resources
- Alamance County History in Photos
- Early Transportation in Alamance County, NC Alamance Faces
- Alamance County Textile History
- Alamance County City & Institutions
- Alamance County Schools Historical Photos
- 19th Century Mebane Family Photograph Collection
- Alamance County Photos Courtesy of Don Bolden Bequest
- Free Genealogy Resources
- Edward J McCauley, Times-New Photographer 1949-1971, Photo Collection
- McCauley index at UNC-Chapel Hill
- All Things Alamance
- Genealogy Research Guides:
- Alamance County Records:
- Alamance County Newspaper Obituary Abstracts
- Alamance County Marriage Notices
- Alamance County, NC Area Bible Records – more than 150 digitized family Bible records.
- Alamance County Divorce & Annulment Records – An index to final divorce decrees issued in Alamance County, NC from earliest to 1963.
- Alamance County Justice of the Peace Office – burial list
- Alamance Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Records
- Alamance Genealogist Magazine – Triannual genealogy magazine devoted to the family history of north Central North Carolina for more than 35 years; Alamance County, NC was formed from old Orange County, NC in 1849
- Alamance County School Information:
- Historic Houses & Neighborhoods from the Pages of “Alamance Magazine”
- Roots-l Resources Page: The homepage of the best-known genealogical mailing list with more than 10,000subscribers.
- Soundex Converter: Convert a surname to the Soundex Code used for indexing census microfilm from the National Archives and Records Administration.
- Alamance County Genweb: Alamance County NC site of the USGenWeb Project
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: Search the International Genealogical Index (IGI) of the Mormon Church.
- Africana Heritage Project: The Africana Heritage Project was begun in order to assist African Americans who are researching their family histories. Our mission is to rediscover those valuable records that document the names and lives of slaves, freed-persons, and their descendants.
- Cemetery Census: A volunteer effort to provide free listings of complete cemetery surveys along with photographs of grave markers. This is not a commercial web site.
- The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal is available digitally. Only at the library with staff assistance.
Databases
In-Library Use Only
Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition – With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories;passenger lists and more.
Ancestry Library EditionIn-Library Use Only
Community History Archive
Copies of digitized local newspapers in this fully searchable resource. The entire Alamance Gleaner, all library holdings of the Alamance News, and The Times News 1954-1957; 1978-1988; and 1990 – 2025: only available at library locations!
Community History ArchiveHeritage Quest
An NC LIVE database that you can access with your library card, Heritage Quest provides access to U.S. census records, books, Revolutionary War service records, and Freedman’s Bank deposit or records. It also can lead you to resources on how to do genealogy research.
Heritage QuestHistoric NC Digital Newspaper Collection
3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 historical NC county newspapers including the daily Burlington Times-News through the 1970
Historic NC Digital Newspaper Collection