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Begin to research and record your family history. Learn to use the information that is available in the Main Library’s Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room and how to find many other sources that can add to your family records. Workshops will be held at the following branches on the dates listed below. To enroll in one of these programs, call the branch directly where the program is being held.
Independence Regional Library
March 17, 2004, 7-8 p.m.
6015 Conference Drive
(704) 563-0945 (Registration begins March 3)
Mint Hill Branch Library
March 20, 2004, 1 –2 p.m.
6840 Matthew-Mint Hill Road
(704) 573-4054 (Registration begins March 6)
University City Regional Library
March 24, 2004, 1-2 p.m.
301 E. W.T. Harris Boulevard
(704) 595-9589 (Registration begins March 10)
Morrison Regional Library
April 3, 2004, 1-2 p.m.
7015 Morrison Boulevard
(704) 336-7823 (Registration begins March 20)
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Learn how the Internet has made genealogy, one of the most popular hobbies in the United States, easier. In these workshop offered by the Library’s Carolina Room staff, learn how to research your roots using listserves, search engines, government and private Web sites, surname searches, CD-ROM products and subscription services. Participants should have some prior experience with personal computers and basic genealogy research. These programs will be “Hands on” classes with each participant working at a computer. Seating will be limited, so sign up for a workshop two weeks in advance by calling the Library’s location.
Main Library, Carolina Room
March 20, 2004 from 10-11.30 a.m.
310 North Tryon
(704) 336-2980 (Registration begins March 6, 2004)
University City Regional Branch
March 29, 2004 from 7 –8:30 p.m.
301 E. W. T. Harris Boulevard
(704) 595-9589 (Registration begins March 15, 2004)
Mint Hill Branch Library
April 5, 2004 from 7-8:30 p.m.
(704) 573-4054 (Registration begins March 22, 2004)
May 3, 2004 from 7-8:30 p.m. (Registration begins April 19, 2004)
6840 Matthews-Mint Hill Road
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The Art of Romare Bearden
Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, 2003
The Civil War in North Carolina: Soldiers’ and Civilians’ Letters and Diaries 1861-1865 Volume 1: The Piedmont
Edited by Christopher M. Watford
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2003
Davie County Marriages 1836-1900
Nancy K. Murphy
Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1998
The Flags of Civil War North Carolina
By Glenn Dedmondt
Pelican Publishing Company, 2003
Four Trials
By John Edwards U.S. Senator, North Carolina with John Auchard
Simon & Schuster, 2004
Ghost Stories of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County: Remnants of the past in a New South
By Stephanie Burt Williams
Bandit Book, 2003
Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies: Words With the Bark On Them and Other Ozark Oddment
By Jane Mitch
Wildston Media, 2000
Iredell County North Carolina Cemetaries: Volumes 1-7
Compiled and published by Russell C. Black, Jr. and Irene Clanton Black, 1999
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Cemeteries: Volume 2 South Mecklenburg
Compiled by Mel and Penny Cook, Edited By Ellen Poteet and Mary Utting
Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society, 2003
The Thirty-seventh North Carolina Troops: Tar Heels in the Army of Northern Virginia
By Michael C. Hardy
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2003
World War II-Hometown and Home Front Heroes: Life Experience Stories from the Carolinas’ Piedmont
Edited by Margaret G. Bigger
A. Borough Books, 2003
View the Public Library’s catalog for a complete list of holdings
We need you help with a future exhibit we are developing on the history of Mecklenburg County schools. We would like to scan or copy any old school photographs, annuals or other information you may have about schools in Mecklenburg County. Call Jane Johnson at (704) 336-2980 if you have materials we can borrow for this project.
View our school publication holdings list
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Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room Image Collection
We're proud to announce a new feature. For the first time, the library’s image collection is available online. At this time, four collections appear on the website. The Hornet’s Nest, which is the oldest photograph collection in the Carolina Room; The Charlotte Postcard Collection that features colorful images of old Charlotte, The Myers Park Collection, which documents the development of this historic suburb, and the D.A. Tompkins Collection that captures the agricultural life in Mecklenburg County. Many of the photographs date to the mid-to-late nineteenth century. The collections display a wide range of subjects, and they are wonderful resource for documenting Charlotte's history as well as visualizing the many changes that have taken place in the city. Researchers seeking permission to use any of these images should contact the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room at (704) 336-2980.
Coming Soon!
Marriages, Deaths and Other Notices
Early Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Newspaper Abstracts
Premiers Spring, 2004
Celebrating the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
Premiers May 20, 2004
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A joint project of the Public Library’s North Carolina Room and Huntersville’s Cultural Development Committee to help preserve Huntersville’s history.
If you or someone you know has old photographs of people and places in Huntersville, artifacts, or personal knowledge of local history, we need your help. Library archivists will copy your photographs and artifacts for preservation in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room’s Main Library. Volunteers from Huntersville’s Cultural Development Committee will conduct videotaped oral history interviews to be preserved in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room and by the Town of Huntersville. To make an appointment, call (704) 895-0318.
When: March 23, 2004
Time: 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Place: North County Regional Library
16500 Holly Crest Lane, Huntersville, NC
For more information, call (704) 336-2980 and ask for Jane Johnson.
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We would like to give a heartfelt thanks to all the donors who contributed books, architectural drawings, funds, images, maps, periodicals, postcards, photographs and school publications to further the mission of the Carolina Room since July 1, 2003.
Reno Bailey
Martha L. Bartlett
Bethel Presbyterian Church
John Blythe
William & Susie Boyce
Mary Boyer
Valerie Burnie
Don Bynum
Daniel Harold Casey
Calvary Church
Mary Cochrane
Rosanne Cummins
James Cuthbertson
Suellen C. Delahunty
Frances Falls
Randy Frazier
David Hains
Raymond G. Hawes
Edward Henderson
B. Doyle Hester
F. Grady Hill
Linda Hutchinson
Dick Jensen
Jean Johnson
Pat Kelly
Gene Kirk and the Mallard Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery Committee
Abraham Kuykenall Chapter, NSDAR
James K. Latimer and the Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery Committee
H. Eugene Lehman
Joseph P. Little
Michael Lilly
Rev. Jeff Lowrance and the Hopewell Presbyterian Church
R. Powell Majors
Larry Manofsky
Jim Martin
Tommie Mayes
Clint McCall
Donald McCord
Carol J. McGinn
Richard W. McGinnis
Jean Oates McSwain
John M. Parker
Richard S. Parker
Charles Paty
Carl Pritchard
Pam Rasfeld
Richard Palmer Reagan
Rocky River Presbyterian Church
Elliot Sanderson
Keith Smith Shannon
Bob Shaw
Richard Sisson
Nancy Spaine
Kathy Gunther Sullivan
Porter E. Taggart
Mae S. Tucker
Tim Upton
Allan White
Snow Wildsmith
W. Carlton Wood
Mark and Lois Yandle
Jessie Youngblood
If you would like to donate materials or funds to the Carolina Room please call (704) 336-5153. All donations are tax deductible and very much appreciated.
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