Find your ancestors
Looking for family history? Use your Durham County Library card and PIN to enjoy free access to the following online resources:
Ancestry Library Edition
Temporarily available from any computer using your library card
Census data, vital records, military records, and immigration records
Documenting the American South
Books, oral histories, diaries, and letters related to Southern history, culture, and literature
Herald-Sun
Online archive of Durham’s The Herald-Sun newspaper. Full text edition with news and feature articles from 1995 to current. Full color image edition with news, feature articles, obituaries, advertisements, and extra sections available from October 2018 to current.
Heritage Quest
Census data, local history, and family records
hoopla
Local histories and genealogy guides in ebook and e-audio
Help and more info for hooplaNorth Carolina Collection
Durham photographs, oral histories, historic city directories, and urban renewal records