Whether you're completely new to genealogy research or you're a seasoned pro, there's always more to learn. In this class, we'll join the librarians at the State Library of North Carolina as they take us through some of the best sources and strategies for conducting an organized and efficient search for your family's history both online and in libraries and archives near you. 

Resources and Forums

Tips, lessons, and tutorials

This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites.

Free access to Ancestry records from the PA State Archives

The National Archives has the census schedules available from 1790 to 1950, and most have now been digitized by our digitization partners.  Family researchers generally find it most helpful to begin with the most current census and work backwards as a strategy for locating people in earlier generations.

The rules followed (or ignored) by census takers.

Includes both paid and free sites

Cemetery Records & Obituaries

Cemetery Records & Obituaries

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/