North Carolina Room
Hours
Monday................................................... 1 pm - 3 pm
Tuesday........................................ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Wednesday.........................................10 am - 12 pm
Thursday.................................................. 1 pm - 3 pm
To schedule an appointment, contact the North Carolina Collection Librarian, Kallen Terry, at kallen.terry@clevelandcountync.gov or at 704-487-9069 ext. 146.
If you live outside of our service area, you can submit a research request at this link. Our ability to fill these requests depends on the time and resources needed.
The North Carolina Room is located at the Eugenia H. Young Memorial Library and contains materials of all types to assist you in your genealogical research.
The following materials are included in our collection:
- Shelby Star Newspaper on microfilm: 1902 – Present (~3 month delay in receiving microfilm)
- Cleveland County records on microfilm:
- Survey of Cleveland County Cemeteries
- deeds
- wills
- births
- voter records
- tax lists
- et cetera
- Family History Files
- Census Information
- Some records of Lincoln County, Rutherford County, and upper South Carolina
- Genealogy magazines and local publications
- Revolutionary and Civil War records
- City directories and phone books
Your first 5 black and white copies per day are free. Additional copies cost $0.15 per page.
Please Note: The North Carolina Room is available for use at your own pace. Limitations in staffing and funding prevent us from doing extensive genealogical research, but we are happy to provide the space and resources for your search.
Rules for use of the North Carolina Room:
- Food and drink are not permitted
- The North Carolina Room is a temperature and humidity-controlled environment to protect the integrity of delicate materials. The room is cold; the library recommends that users bring a jacket.
- Please wash your hands before beginning your research, and use the cotton gloves provided if you are handling photographs.
- Non-flash photography is permitted. If a scan or copy is desired, the staff member on hand will make them for you.
- Do not bring any items from the general collection into the North Carolina Room and do not remove any North Carolina Collection items from the North Carolina Room.
- Marking of the pages, cracking book spines, dogearing pages, stapling or paperclipping archive materials, and similar damage to the items is not permitted. Scraps of paper will be available to save places; these will be removed when your visit is complete.
Below are some additional internet resources to assist you in your search. Please keep in mind that some of these links are only available for free access from inside the library.
- Free Ancestry.com – In Library Use Only!
- Broad River Genealogical Society
- Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records – Provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 & the present.
- Census Online – Contains links to federal censuses and indexes, state and territorial censuses, tax lists, voter lists, military pensioner lists, and international records.
- Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites – A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
- Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals – American Family Immigration History Center
- Family Search – Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records & resources.
- Find a Grave – World’s largest gravesite collection with over 170 million memorials.
- Fold3 Library Edition – Ancestry provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos and documents of the men and women who served.
- FreeBMD – Free civil registration index of births, marriages, and deaths.
- GENUKI – UK & Ireland Genealogy.
- HeritageQuest Online – Is now available thru NC LIVE. A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.
- Mocavo and Findmypast – Research over 5 billion Ancestors for Free
- NC Digital Heritage Center – A statewide program to digitize and publish historic materials online.
- The Kings Mountain Herald – Digitized microfilm of The Kings Mountain Herald made available through NC Digital Heritage Center.
- Obituary Daily Times – Index of published obituaries.
- RootsWeb – The oldest and largest free genealogy site.
- StoryCorps – An independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening.
- TheShipsList – Passenger lists and more.
