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Databases and Websites by Subject: History and Genealogy

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Available on any computer with a library card, you will need an NC LIVE password to access some of these databases remotely. Please call 452-5169 for more information.

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	American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography via Greenwood Life histories of former slaves
	Ancestry via Ancestry.com Genealogy Resource
	Annals of American History via Britannica U.S. history source documents
	Daily Life Through History via Greenwood History and society
	HeritageQuest via HeritageQuest Research materials for tracing family history and American culture
	Historic Events of the 20th Century via Greenwood Narrative history and analysis of historic events
	North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press Women's writings from the Colonial period to 1950
	Sanborn Maps North Carolina via Sanborn Maps North Carolina Historical maps of North Carolina
	World Data Analyst via Britannica Statistical portraits and tools for making comparative charts and tables of countries.