The SHC has some exciting news for our researchers: we’ve embarked on a 3 year project funded by a grant from NC ECHO to update and make available online over 1000 finding aids currently only available in paper format. Over 200 of these finding aids are now available online!
These finding aids represent some of the earliest acquisitions of the SHC. Many of these collections contain information about the Civil War and early North Carolina politics.
Some collections that have jumped out at us from the initial group of 200 include:
This collection contains a letter arguing that Enloe fathered Abraham Lincoln.
Spinsters’ Club Records, #4144-z
Membership in this Fayetteville, NC club was limited to women under the age of 30.
Green, a farmer and physician, served in the 53rd North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War and his diary contains entries from his active duty in army hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina.
Included in this collection is a diary kept by Kealhofer describing her activities during the Civil War in Hagerstown, Md. and her travels to Canada and upstate New York.
We will be posting newly updated finding aids each month so stay tuned for more highlights!
A list of all finding aids published online through this project is now available.