Online Research-History & Genealogy

Access Newspaper ARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700's, including the Statesville Daily Record, the Statesville Landmark and the Statesville Record & Landmark from 1874-1876, 1880-1907, 1921-1933, and 1945-1955.

Contains original page images for the entire U. S. Census from 1790 to 1930 as well as over genealogy 25,000 books, PERSI™, and other expanding collections.

Resources on Iredell County history and genealogy. Part of the USGenWeb Project, by a group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone.

Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.

You can search the library's catalog for obituary and birth notices from local newspapers. The catalog currently has obituary records from 1949 through 2006 and birth records from 1954 to 2001.