Forsyth County Public Library Welcomes New Photograph Collection Librarian

The Forsyth County Public Library’s North Carolina Collection welcomed a new staff member in October. Cade Carlson is the new photograph collection librarian in charge of caring for the library’s extensive photograph collections and responding to Digital Forsyth requests. Cade graduated from the UNC School of Information and Library Science where his focus was on…

Genealogy Help Calendar for August

We are back to providing Genealogy Help in-person! We have a calendar of times for you to drop in for in-person help or sign up for virtual help at the Library's Computer Training Bridge. Look for our future calendars on the Genealogy page.

Genealogy Help

Are you new to genealogy? Are you stuck finding information about an ancestor? Do you want to learn what resources are available through the library for your genealogy research? Come to our Genealogy Help sessions! We will meet with you one-on-one to work through your genealogy questions. Each session is available in person, or virtually.…

Forsyth County Genealogical Society Meetings

The regular monthly meeting of the Forsyth County Genealogical Society will be held at 2 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month in the auditorium of the Reynolda Manor Branch of the Forsyth County Public Library at 2839 Fairlawn Drive NW in Winston-Salem, unless otherwise noted. Social hour begins about 1:30 p.m. and the…

Free Digital Newspaper Trial of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel

The Forsyth County Public Library is offering a free online trial of the historic "Winston-Salem Journal" and "Twin City Sentinel" from February 14 (Happy Valentine's Day!) through April 15. You will be able to access the newspapers from the links provided with your library card. Click on the buttons below and use your library card…

America 250 Celebration

People have been asking why we have a Christmas Tree in our research room. It is not in fact, a Christmas Tree. It is a Patriot Tree 🇺🇸! Colonel Joseph Winston Chapter of the NSDAR America 250 Patriot Tree The Colonel Joseph Winston Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution…

Sanborn Insurance Maps Now Available Digitally

Our collection of Sanborn Insurance Maps have been digitized and are now accessible on the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center's website. These maps are helpful for researching historic properties and businesses, past street names, and historic neighborhoods, including ones that no longer exist. The maps are digitally available in high resolution with zoom capability. A…

Preservation Month Postcard Exhibit

In honor of May being Preservation Month, Preservation Forsyth and the FCPL's North Carolina Collection have teamed up to bring you a new exhibit of historical postcards. Stop by the second floor of the Central Library to view this exhibit. The cases outside the room and inside the room have postcards of buildings and other…

History of Piedmont Airlines Exhibit at Central Library

This month the Piedmont Aviation Historical Society has curated an exhibit of their archives in the North Carolina Collection at the Central Library. The exhibit will run from January through April. Piedmont Aviation Historical Society Banner Piedmont Airlines began in February 1948 with a flight from Wilmington to Cincinnati on a Douglas DC-3 with founder…

Winston-Salem Family History Center

We are posting updated information from the Winston-Salem Family History Center. This is a free genealogy resource for the community. If you haven't been check it out. Attention, genealogists! Have you ever visited FamilySearch.org? This absolutely free service of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints searches millions of genealogical records, historical books, Websites,…