Rockingham Legacy Digital Project Overview

1. Local History at Your Fingertips

2. 
 The Digital Heritage Center of North Carolina works
with cultural institutions across the state to make
local history available online through Digital NC,
a web-based historical project.
Digital NC

3. 
 Rockingham County Public Library and Rockingham
County Community College are collaborating with
Digital NC to make Rockingham County history
available online.
Collaboration with Digital NC

4. 
 Working with Digital NC, we have developed our
own “exhibit” within the larger Digital NC
collection.
 It is a gateway to the “images, documents and
artifacts” contributed by Rockingham County which
relate specifically to our “people, history and
cultural heritage.”
 http://www.digitalnc.org/exhibits/rockingham-county-legacy/
Rockingham County Legacy

5. 
 Digital NC connects our local history to the state
history with every search.
 Each item in our Rockingham County Legacy Exhibit
also intersects with the larger collections in the
Digital NC site such as Newspapers, Yearbooks,
Memorabilia, Images, and City Directories.
Connected

6. 
 Church History
 City Directories
 Early Bookmobile Film
What can You find?
To date, we have 742 items, and we add more all the time!
Samples include:

7. 
 Photographs
 Postcards
 Scrapbooks
More Samples

8. 
 Obituary Clippings
(1920~1999; text searchable from within each group)
 Honor Roll Rockingham County: WW II
 Yearbooks
(up to 1965 due to privacy restrictions)
Genealogy Resources

9. 
Begin at: www.bit.ly/rockingham-legacy
Best Ways to Find Content:
 Search by Material Type
 Browse by Location (Avalon, Draper, Eden etc.)
 Browse by Contributor
How do I find it?

10. 
 Ask Shirley Brim Jones: genealogy@rcpl.org
 Ask Rhonda Hooker: rhooker@rcpl.org
 Ask Ingrid Hayes: ihayes@rcpl.org
Enjoy!
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