Durham County, North Carolina:
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Projects

• Digital Durham 
• Durham County History & Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Durham County NCGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Durham County, North Carolina      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)

Adjacent counties

• Chatham County, NC  to the south
• Granville County, NC  to the northeast
• Orange County, NC  to the west
• Person County, NC  to the north
• Wake County, NC  to the southeast

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Durham Co, North Carolina, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Durham GEDCOM Index 
• Historic Stagville Genealogy 
• Index to the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Olivia Raney Library  Durham County Biographies

Cemeteries (15)

Census Records and Indexes (16)

Directories

• Durham City Directories      (Source: Internet Archive)
• Durham City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Durham County City Directories      (Source: DigitalNC)
• Durham County, North Carolina Online Historical Directories      (Source: Online Historical Directories)

Estate Records

• Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1752-1800 and 1800-1850      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Durham County Wills      (Source: USGenWeb North Carolina Archives)
• North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970      (Source: Family History Library)

Ethnic

• A yearly contract with everybody and his brother  Durham County, North Carolina black female public school teachers 1885-1927     (Source: Questia Online Library)     ($)

History (22)

Introduction and Guides (12)

Libraries, Museums, Archives (13)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards (18)

Maps and Gazetteers (11)

Military Records and Histories

• Durham County Military Records      (Source: USGenWeb North Carolina Archives)
• Durham County, North Carolina Military Index      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Durham County, North Carolina     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Durham County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Durham County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Durham County, North Carolina  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)
  • World War II Scrapbooks Index 

Miscellaneous Data

• Bull City Blues  During the 1920s-1940s, Durham was home to African American musicians whose work defined a distinctive regional style. Blues artists often played in the surrounding Hayti community and downtown tobacco warehouse district. Prominent among these were Blind Boy Fuller (Fulton Allen) (1907-1941) and Blind Gary Davis (1896-1972), whose recordings influenced generations of players     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Durham County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Durham County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Durham County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• North Carolina, County Records  1833-1970     (Source: Family History Library)

Newspaper Records

• The Carolina Times, Durham  1937-1950     (Source: DigitalNC)
• Chronicling America  Durham County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Durham County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Durham County, N.C. Newspapers  North Carolina Newspaper Project
• Durham Skywriter      (Source: World Vital Records - mix of free and fee)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Durham County Obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb North Carolina Archives)
• Durham, North Carolina Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• The Herald-Sun 
• Herald-Sun  Durham, NC     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• The Herald-Sun  Durham     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Howerton & Bryan Funeral Home  Durham, North Carolina

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (12)

School Records and Histories (77)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• Durham County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• Stagville Plantation      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)

Societies

• Bennett Place Chapter 2241  Durham     (Source: United Daughters of the Confederacy)
• The Durham-Orange Genealogical Society of North Carolina 
• Historic Preservation Society of Durham 
• Historic Preservations Society of Durham, North Carolina 
• Pvts. Lorenzo L. Bennitt and Robert F. Duke Camp 773, Durham      (Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans)
• St. Joseph's Historic Foundation  at the Hayti Heritage Center

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (32)

Transportation and Industry

• Black Wall Street  In the early decades of the 1900s, Durham acquired national reputation for entrepreneurship. Businesses owned by African Americans lined Parrish Street. Among them were N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. (moved to Parrish, 1906), led by John Merrick, Dr. Aaron Moore, & C. C. Spaulding, and Mechanics and Farmers Bank (1907), led by R. B. Fitzgerald and W. G. Pearson     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Building histories of Durham County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• N.C. Society of Engineers  Organized in 1918 in the Malbourne Hotel, which stood here. J. N. Ambler elected first president     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Patents  Durham County, North Carolina     (Source: Google Patents)
• Remembering WDBS  The Campus Radio Station of Duke University (1950-1983)
• Rural Credit Union  Lowes Grove credit union, first in South, formed to serve local farmers. Est. Dec. 9, 1915, on initiative of John Sprunt Hill     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Trading Path  Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina passed nearby     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)

Vital Records

• Durham County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Durham County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb North Carolina Archives)
• Durham County North Carolina Marriage Records      (Source: GenWed.com)
• Durham County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975  Durham County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• North Carolina Death Collection  Durham County, 1909-1967     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• North Carolina Marriage Collection  Durham County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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