Visit us to research your family’s roots or delve into Lowcountry, American, or European history.

Membership entitles you to free use of the library and newsletters on events and history.

Non-members may use our library for a nominal fee.

Trained volunteers will help you with your project.

Learn about the Hilton Head Island historic sites maintained by the Foundation: Fort Mitchel and the Zion Chapel of Ease cemetery.

The Library contains over 4,500 books. Our collection deals half with genealogy and half with history. We also have material on microfilm, CD-ROMs, and in our vertical files. The collection is constantly growing, as history aficionados donate material. About 10% of our holdings deal with South Carolina; the balance is of other states and countries.

Volunteers help guide patrons to an extensive collection of data including census and other Hilton Head records transcribed and indexed by the Library. Complete research facilities include computers, high-speed Internet, microfilm readers and printers. The Library is also an accredited branch of the LDS library in Salt Lake City; here you can order microfilm from their voluminous files.

Members of the Heritage Library Foundation have unlimited access to our extensive files, data  collections, and volumes of history. Through this Web site they can access many of the Library’s files. Premiere members may also access HeritageQuest.com through this site. Non-members are welcome and may use the facility for a nominal fee.