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The Davidson History Project is a joint project of the Public Library’s Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room and the Davidson Branch Library.
If you or someone you know has old photographs of people and places in Davidson, artifacts, or personal knowledge of local history, we need your help. Library archivists will copy your photographs and artifacts of the Davidson area for preservation in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room at the Main Library. We ask you to share your memories with staff and volunteers from the Public Library, who will conduct videotaped oral history interviews. The interviews, with your permission, will be preserved in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, Main Library, and the Davidson Public Library.
When: Nov. 16, 2004 from 10am - 12pm & 1:30pm - 4pm
Where: Davidson Branch Library
To register to have your photos and artifacts copied or to participate in the oral history interviews, call Davidson Branch Library at (704) 892-8557.
Family Tree Climbing:
An Introduction to Genealogy
Genealogy On The Internet
The Carolina Room has recently purchased all 126 rolls of the Loose Estate Papers of Mecklenburg County. Ellen Poteet of the Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society had this to say:
“I consider these files to be the single most important group of records for Mecklenburg research next to Herman Ferguson's abstracts of deeds, wills, and court minutes. The loose estates files contain mostly matters relating to people who died intestate, although wills occasionally show up. The files can include administrator's bonds, guardianship bonds, inventories, estate sales (many with names of the buyers), estate settlements that list heirs, divisions of property with plats attached, etc. Many times you can get much more information from the estate file than you can from a will. Heretofore, these files could only be ordered from the N. C. Archives; they are not available here in the court house. So having them available here at the library is fantastic!"
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Past & Present: The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
An exhibit tracing the history of Charlotte’s public library from one building to its current 23 branches is currently on display in the Carolina Room from October to December.
Upcoming Display: Antique and reproduction needlework samplers from the Carolina Sampler Guild on exhibit December 1st thru March 1st
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We have improved the appearance of the Carolina Room by rearranging some furniture, moving materials, displaying more of our photographs on the walls and changing the signs on the end panels.
You now have two ways to make better copies of documents and photographs! We have added a new scanner to one computer in the Family Research Computer Center so you can scan and save items to diskette. Bring your own diskettes or purchase one for $1 at the reference desk. We also have a new, quieter copier in the map room for better quality copies of documents and photographs.
A selection of new books is now on the tops of the filing cabinets and a new map cabinet will be added soon so that we can help you more quickly. We now have historic newspapers on microfilm arranged alphabetically by title to help you find papers more easily. Charlotte city directories, cemeteries and building permits are now included in the Mecklenburg County records microfilm section.
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As always, we appreciate your gifts of photographs, maps, family research, school publications, postcards, and books we can keep or trade with other libraries. Past planning and generous contributions of patrons have made our collection one of the best public library special collections in the state.
Listed below is a small sampling of the latest items now available for your research.
- 1700-2003 “My McGinnis History Begins to Fit”
- Building a Town, Wendell, North Carolina
- Looking Back on Littleton, North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Cemeteries, Vol. 3, East Mecklenburg
- The Moores Creek Bridge Campaign, 1776
View the complete listing of new acquisitions
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Computer lovers will be happy to know that Heritage Quest will be coming soon to a branch near you! PLCMC will begin offering this popular online product at the branches. PLCMC will publicize when the product is available for use.
Due to a vendor change, we will soon discontinue access to Ancestry Plus. The replacement resource will be Ancestry Library Edition, available exclusively in the Family Research Computer Center.
With both of these products available to our patrons, genealogy will be easier and more thorough.
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As our collection grows, so does our need for volunteers. There are a variety of projects to work on, and schedules are flexible. If you are interested in volunteering in the Carolina Room, you can learn more and find an application form here.
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