For those interested in genealogy sources for North Carolina, there are two great web sources available.

The first source is at AccessGenealogy.com.

The site bills itself as a free genealogy resource, and although some info is free, other information requires a subscription. Still, it's worth checking out. Information available on the site covers topics from North Carolina cemetery records to military records from the Civil War and Revolutionary War.

State Library of North Carolina: The genealogy desk at the State Library of North Carolina. There is information both at the library, and on the Internet.A public source of genealogy information for North Carolina is at the State Library of North Carolina.

The Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of North Carolina has an extensive Genealogy Collection located on the West Mezzanine of the Archives & History/State Library building.

Beginning and seasoned researchers utilize these resources to trace families in North Carolina as well as the states from which many migrated. The collection contains family histories, published abstracts, periodicals, county histories, and reference materials.

It also contains published materials for areas from which many North Carolinians came, and states to which many North Carolinians migrated. There is a large collection of census records, an assortment of electronic databases, and vast microfilm collections.

You can get tips about getting started with genealogy, download blank ancestor and cousin charts, get tips on finding slave records and for tracing an ancestor back to North Carolina. There are also a number of helpful genealogy links (that don't link to a for-profit genealogy company).

If that isn't enough, the library offers access to online databases the library uses, including subscription-based and free databases. You can't get better than that, my friends.