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Braswell Memorial Library: Local History

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ASK TRACI!

You can email Traci Thompson, our Local History/Genealogy Librarian, a question at  lhrequest@braswell-library.org. She can provide advice and perform free lookups in indexed sources. In-depth research, photocopies, and scans are available for a fee. Please contact Traci for more details.

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Select NC Marriage Documents

Below are extracts from select marriage records, mostly from Nash County, in North Carolina.

Printing at the Library

To print to Braswell Library owned printers (printers at main library only) from your computer, smart phone, or tablet from anywhere click on the image below:

(Normal library printing charges apply, prints are one-sided only and $ .25 a page in BLACK & WHITE, $ 1.00 a page in COLOR)

For privacy reasons, the print jobs submitted through our Mobile Print services will be deleted from the queue after 2 hours.

GENEALOGY and LOCAL HISTORY

The Kornegay Room of Braswell Memorial Library offers a substantial genealogy and local history collection focusing on the history of Rocky Mount and Nash and Edgecombe Counties.  More...

 

Some specific resources available in the library:

  • Ancestry Library Edition
  • Rocky Mount city directories
  • Vertical Files
  • Local genealogical/historical publications
  • Published transcriptions and abstracts of local county records
  • Local maps
  • Local area newspapers on microfilm:
    • Rocky Mount Telegram (1916 - present)
    • Nashville Graphic (1900-present)
    • Enfield Progress (1887-1973)
    • Tarboro Southerner (various years)
    • Miscellaneous, short-run area newspapers (various years)

 

Maps For Sale

Nash County Map, 1918-19                                                   $20.00
Prepared by direction of the County Commissioners and the
Board of Education by Wells & Brinkley, Engineers, 1919.

Shipping and handling: $3.00 per item.

The library can accept check or money order only.  Please make checks payable to Braswell Memorial Library, and send to the attention of: Traci Thompson, Local History/Genealogy Librarian, 727 N. Grace St., Rocky Mount, NC 27804.