The staff of the North Carolina Room of the Morganton Public Library provides professional research help in response to written and telephone requests for genealogical research for Burke County and western North Carolina. The rates for research are as follows:

$4.00 per hour of research plus copy fees plus postage

Copy Fees-10 cents per page for Xerox copy/25 cents per page for microfilm copy

$2.00 per obituary request (will search only in the Morganton News Herald and the correct date within one week must be provided-limit of 6 obituary requests per letter

$2.00 per Burke County land grant reques (limit of 6 land grant requests per letter)

Written and telephone requests will be answered in the order that they are received.

The turnaround time for all requests is approximately 2-3 weeks.

Please send written requests to: 

Morganton Public Library
Attn: North Carolina Room
204 S. King Street
Morganton, NC 28655
Telephone: (828) 437-5638

Please make checks payable to: Burke County Public Library, Inc.