Genealogy & Local history

Kings Mountain City & County Resources

The library owns local family history specific to the Kings Mountain area. The library houses a small vertical file of newspaper clippings, photographs, brochures and some magazine publications concerning the City of Kings Mountain, the area and its citizens. Interspersed in these vertical files are unpublished, donated family histories.

Kings Mountain Herald: Local newspapers dating back to 1914
Cleveland County Cemeteries: cemetery records
Harris Funeral Home Obituary Search: from 1930-present
Mountain Rest Cemetery: Dating from 1876 and owned by the City of Kings Mountain, this cemetery contains approximately 2,000 graves and covers 25.67 acres
Mountain Rest Cemetery Burial Records Search: Mountain Rest Cemetery Online Burial Search
Broad River Genealogy Society: Area genealogical records and historical information

North Carolina Family Records Collection

North Carolina Family Records Collection is comprised of North Carolina family history materials from the holdings of the State Archives of North Carolina and State Library of North Carolina.

North Carolina Digital Collections

The North Carolina Digital Collections database contain over 90,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina. The collections are free and full-text searchable, and bring together content from the State Archives of North Carolina and the State Library of North Carolina.
Collections include:

1,901 Confederate pension applications
Family records
North Carolina newspapers

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.

General Research

Family Search: Census records, birth certificates, death certificates, and more!
RootsWeb: The oldest and largest free genealogy site.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites: Comprehensive list of genealogy resources online.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records: Federal land conveyance records for the public land states.
FreeBMD: Civil registration index of births, marriages, and deaths in England and Wales.

Obituary & Grave Research

Find a Grave: Over 121 million grave records.
Obituary Daily Times: Index of published obituaries.

Immigration Research

Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals: American Family Immigration History Center.
TheShipsList: Passenger lists and more.
Castle Garden: U.S. immigration database with records from 1820-1892.

African American Research

African American Online Genealogy Records: Comprehensive list of online African American genealogy collections.
AfriGeneas: African American and African Ancestor Genealogy.

Military Research

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database: Information about both Union and Confederate troops during the Civil War.
Revolutionary War Military Records