Resource Center
The HCGS maintains a Resource Center which is open by request; call 828-456-3042, 828-627-9828, or 828-452-3733 to schedule an appointment. A wide variety of materials is available including instructional videotapes (specialized lectures on "How to" topics and methods of researching) and a variety of genealogical magazines and basic genealogical reference works. Also available are:
Volunteers from the Society are available at the Haywood County Public Library in the North Carolina Room on Friday afternoons between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm. If you contact a volunteer in the library he/she will be able to direct or accompany you to the Resource Center. For appointments at other times call one of the numbers above. The Resource Center materials are for reference only, and materials will not circulate. A copying machine is available. Members have free access to the center and to its contents. For non-members a $3 donation per visit is requested. When you visit Waynesville stop by and visit with us. We will be glad to give any advice and information we can.
Note: Many Haywood County records were destroyed in 1932 during the move to a new courthouse.
The Register of Deeds office files all certificates for Haywood County beginning in 1913. A certified copy of a certificate is $10.00 and may be used for any legal purpose. A plain copy, suitable for genealogical purposes, is 25 cents. For Birth Certificates, send the full name at birth, the date of birth, and the parent's full names with the mother's maiden name. For Death Certificates, send the full name at death and the date of death. For Marriage Licenses, send the bride and groom's full names with the bride's maiden name and the wedding date For more information call the Register of Deeds office at 828-452-6635. Their office hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. They don't have the staff to do searches so be specific and request only one or two documents at a time. Send a check or money order with your request, signature, phone number, and a stamped self-addressed envelope to:
215 N. Main Street Waynesville, NC 28786 (828)-452-6635
For information about Wills you may write to or call the Haywood County Clerk's office: 215 N. Main Street Waynesville, NC 28786 (828)-456-3540 "Where there's a will there's a bunch of curious relatives." Columbus Citizen-Journal, Jan. 26, 1985
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION MICROFILM Available at STATE LIBRARY The State Library of North Carolina's Genealogical Services is very pleased to announce that the Revolutionary war pension and bounty-land warrant application files microfilm is now available for research in the Library and on Interlibrary Loan to North Carolina residents. No longer will researchers in North Carolina have to drive to Washington, East Point, or Richmond to use this film. No longer must they wait months and months for photocopies ordered from the National Archives to arrive. This National Archives and Records Administration microfilm (series M804) records in their entireties 80,000 files of applications or other records pertaining to claims to the U. S. government for Revolutionary pensions and bounty-land warrants. The 2670 reels constitute one of the richest sources of genealogical and historical information for the Revolutionary era. (Although the subscription database HeritageQuest now offers the option “Search Revolutionary War,” its source is the abbreviated microfilm series [898 reels] of selected papers from these application files.) The film is available for use on the First Floor of the State Library Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. On Saturdays (9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon; 1:00–5:00 p.m.) staff will retrieve it for use in the Genealogical Services section on the West Mezzanine. Patron must specify the full name of the ancestor whose application he is searching. He will also want to have at hand the Pension or Bounty-land Warrant Number application number to facilitate his locating the correct ancestor when there are duplicate names. This number can be found in Virgil White's Genealogical abstracts of Revolutionary War pension files or the National Genealogical Society's index of Revolutionary War pension applications in the National Archives. If your library holds neither of these titles, please call Genealogical Services or use our E-Mail Reference Service to which you can quick link from the SLNC website at http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/. Nor will it be necessary for North Carolina residents to drive to Raleigh to use the Revolutionary pension microfilm. Researchers will be able to borrow the film on Interlibrary Loan through their local libraries. They will need to provide the full name of the ancestor in question for the Borrowing Notes field of the OCLC request form (OCLC # 31327622). State residents may borrow up to six reels per request from the State Library's genealogical microfilm collection for a loan period of one month. There will be no renewals of this film series. Please direct questions about this microfilm or others in the State Library's genealogy microfilm collection to Genealogical Services at 919-807-7460 or by e-mail to Pam Toms: pamtoms@library.dcr.state.nc.us. For questions regarding the status of a request or for assistance in preparing a genealogy interlibrary loan request, librarians should contact the Resource Sharing Branch at 919-807-7457 or e-mail Joyce Throckmorton at jthrockmorton@library.dcr.state.nc.us.
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