Find your ancestors – Durham County Library

Your Durham County Library card and PIN offer free access to:

Ancestry Library Edition

(In-library use only)
Census data, vital records, military records, and immigration records

Census data, local history, and family records

Durham photographs, oral histories, historic city directories, and urban renewal records

Local histories and genealogy guides in ebook and e-audio

Books, oral histories, diaries, and letters related to Southern history, culture, and literature

Online archive of Durham’s The Herald-Sun newspaper