BIBLE
BIOGRAPHIES
CEMETERIES
- Individual Cemetery Listings
- Durham County cemeteries at USGenWeb Archives
- Durham County Cemeteries at Cemetery Census
- Durham County Cemeteries at Find-A-Grave
- Durham County Cemeteries at BillionGraves
- WPA Cemetery Survey from the 1940s – includes pre-1914 burial records
CENSUS
- 1900 US Census – free at FamilySearch
- 1910 US Census – free at FamilySearch
- 1920 US Census – free at FamilySearch
- 1930 US Census – free at FamilySearch
- 1940 US Census – free at FamilySearch
CHURCH
COURT RECORDS
- Durham County Civil Actions Container List | NC Archives (ncdcr.gov)
- Durham County Estates | NC Archives (ncdcr.gov)
- Durham County Miscellaneous Records | NC Archives (ncdcr.gov)
- Durham County Widows’ Year’s Support | NC Archives (ncdcr.gov)
- Durham County Wills | NC Archives (ncdcr.gov)
DEATHS
- Misc. Durham County Obituaries – misc obituaries submitted to the site
- Family Obituary Groups
- Barbee Family Obituaries – submitted by Linda Thompson
- McDade Family Obituaries – submitted by Ellen Kerley
- Weaver Family Obituaries – submitted by Ellen Kerley
- Durham County obits at the USGenWeb Archives
- Social Security Death Index – at FamilySearch
DIRECTORIES
- Durham County directories at DigitalNC.org – more than 50 directories from 1875 forward
EDUCATION
- Durham County students in NC colleges -mostly seniors and mostly pre-1931
- School-specific yearbooks – digitized online
- Durham High School 691:[Durham High School] AND collectioninformation:”North Carolina High School Yearbooks” – Search Results – DigitalNC
- Durham Technical Community College North Carolina College and University Yearbooks – Search Results – DigitalNC
- Duke University North Carolina College and University Yearbooks – Search Results – DigitalNC
- Hillside High School 691:[Hillside High School] AND collectioninformation:”North Carolina High School Yearbooks” – Search Results – DigitalNC
- North Carolina Central University North Carolina College and University Yearbooks – Search Results – DigitalNC
HISTORY
- Happy 150th Birthday, Durham! by Jim Wise, Herald Sun
- History of the town of Durham, N. C., embracing biographical sketches and engravings of leading business men, and a carefully compiled business directory of Durham, to which is annexed a compilation of useful information in relation to the cultivation, curing and manufacture of tobacco in North Carolina and Virginia, by Hiram V. Paul (1884) – includes biographical sketches of prominent Durham citizens and has an overall focus on the tobacco industry
LETTERS
- Letters from Charlies V. Wilkins – submitted by Iris Hill Brown
LOOKUPS
MARRIAGES
- Durham soldiers in the North Carolina Confederate Soldiers Burial Database
- Durham County marriages at the USGenWeb Archives
MILITARY
NEWSPAPERS
- Carolina Times Newspaper – full text issues of this African-American newspaper from 1937-1972
- Durham Daily Globe – full-text issues from 1889-1894
- North Carolina Central University Student Newspaper – full text issues of this historically black school from 1927-1969
- Newspapers published in Durham County
- Article transcriptions
- Trinity College Notes (27 October 1899)
- Trinity College Notes (17 November 1899)
WILLS & ESTATES
- Durham County Estates | NC Archives (ncdcr.gov)
- Durham County Wills | NC Archives (ncdcr.gov)
- TILLEY, George – 23 July 1887
- Whitted Family Will Abstracts – Murrow Jordan, William Whitted, Louisa A Burton, Tempie Jordan Whitted, A J Whitted, E M Sears, Walter Lewis Whitted, Richard B Fitzgerald, Charles H Shepard (Doctor), James M Whitted, and Sadie Pratt