Chatham County Links

Chatham County Travel & Tourism - The place to look if you are planning a visit to Chatham County, NC. Includes accommodations, dining, shopping and events calendar.

Cemeteries of Chatham County, and cemeteries of surrounding counties are now online - The Chatham listing is a searchable database of all the cemeteries and family plots in Chatham County.

Chatham County Home Page - The official Chatham County, NC web site with links to various government, non-profit, and commercial sites in the county.

Chatham Links - A directory of Chatham County websites created by the editors of the Chatham Journal.

Col. John Randolph Lane Society- If you are interested in the Civil War and Chatham County's historical part in the war, this is the site for your research.

NCGenWeb: Chatham County - For any genealogical research in Chatham County, NC, this is the number one place to begin.

D'ADDEZIO Directory of Historical Societies in North Carolina. Also includes historical societies throughout the US and Canada.

NC Office of Archives and History - State archives, government records, other historical services. Includes NC Map of Historic Sites.

Friends of the Pittsboro Memorial Library - The Friends of the Pittsboro Memorial Library has a site that will help you do research at the Pittsboro Memorial Library.

Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough, North Carolina

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Durham-Orange Genealogical Society of North Carolina - Chatham County was formed from Orange County in 1770, so if you are researching early Chatham, you may want to check this web site.

Civil War Traveler. com. The North Carolina Civil War Trails program is officially under way with the installation of several new markers designating sites in various locations across the state.

North Carolina Railroad Museum

NC LIVE Did you know that thousands of primary source documents are available to anyone in North Carolina through NC LIVE, a gateway to selected subscription databases that can be accessed from any public library in the state, as well as from home?

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

Sanborn Maps North Carolina



North Carolina's public, academic and community college libraries offer access to NC LIVE, either through computers at these libraries or from home.

* at the library, ask the librarian for NC LIVE, and from the main welcome screen choose the Browse Resources tab, then pick Primary Source Documents from the list of Types of sources on the right hand side.

* from home, you need to know the password for your library. (Libraries will only share the password with people who have a library card, so if you don't have your library card, sign up today!) When you know the password for your library, go to http://www.nclive.org/ Select your library, enter the appropriate password (which changes every six months) and then you can search any of the above databases - and more! From the main welcome screen choose the Browse Resources tab, then pick Primary Source Documents from the list of Types of sources on the right hand side.

If you have any questions about NC LIVE, contact your public library

Oral Histories of the American South - Click on a general topic on the left side of the screen or put in a search word, such as 'Bynum.'

The Silk Hope Ruritan Club is dedicated to improving our community and building a better America through Fellowship, Goodwill and Community Service.

The Southern Oral History Program collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to a variety of fields and interviews that will render historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources.