NC Historical Records Online (NCHRO) is very pleased to announce that we have completed our multi-year project to put 1.2 million images of original documents associated with all 200,000 North Carolina land grants on our free website http://nclandgrants.com . The final counties added were Columbus, Davidson, Hyde, Nash, Montgomery, Richmond, Sampson, and Davidson TN. The…
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NCHRO board members speaking at NGS 2023!
NC Historical Records Online continues its streak of having at least 1 board member selected to speak at the National Genealogical Society Annual Conference. This year’s conference will be nearby in Richmond VA May 31-June 3, 2023. DIANE L. RICHARD (Secretary) will be presenting: Scholarly Resources/Platforms Invaluable to Genealogists — Expand Your Research Many Arrive…
Over One Million Images!
We have now passed over ONE MILLION images of original land grant documents! To be precise, that’s 1,064,943 high quality images. The newest addition adds 136,500 new images for Bladen, Cumberland, Johnston, McDowell, New Hanover, and Robeson. We’re down to the final order which was placed a few weeks ago, but unfortunately we found out…
No bunkum! 68,000 new land grant documents online for Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Onslow, and Polk
68,000 new NC land grant loose document images (“shucks”) have been added to http://nclandgrants.com making a total of 929,000 land grant related images on the website. These new images are for Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Onslow, and Polk Counties. Images are currently being digitized for Bladen, Montgomery, and Robeson, with 3 more sets waiting to be…
61,000 new images for Caldwell, Macon, Mitchell, and Washington, plus assorted Tennessee counties
New NC land grant loose document images (“shucks”) have been added to http://nclandgrants.com making a total of 861,000 land grant related images on the website. These new images include Caldwell, Macon, Mitchell, and Washington counties, as well as the Tennessee counties of Carter, Tennessee, Washington, and Wilson. Images are currently being digitized for Buncombe, Carbarrus,…
NEW PROJECT! NC Land Grant Map Inventory
NC Historical Records Online has started a project to create a public inventory of all existing maps showing NC land grants, and we need your help to find them all. Our hope is to have as many as possible on our website http://nclandgrants.com, or at least let researchers know where to find these maps. BACKGROUND…
71,500 shuck images now online for Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Gates and Randolph!
Thanks to your generous donations and the always excellent effort of the State Archives Microfilm Lab, we now have a total of 696,000 NC land grant loose document images (“shucks”) online at http://nclandgrants.com. This represents around 2/3 of the total shuck images, and we hope to have them all online by the end of this…
57,000 New Land Grant Images Now Online, and . . . FUNDING IS COMPLETE!
NC Historical Records Online is extremely pleased to announce that our project to digitize all the North Carolina land grant loose documents (“the shucks”) is now fully funded! Our thanks go to over 100 individual donors contributing anywhere from $16 to almost $1000. Most donations were under $100, with a total of almost $10,000 received…
Another 150,000 images for 43 counties added to our NC Land Grants website!
NC Historical Records Online is pleased to announce that another 150,000 images of land grants records representing 43 counties have been added to our free website http://nclandgrants.com . This last set included a number of smaller counties as well as most of the counties now in Tennessee. This brings the total number of images on…
1,434 “Missing” North Carolina Land Grants Now Online!
Due to a decision made over a century ago, 1,434 NC land grants were never included in any of the online land grant databases: The Discover Online Catalog (DOC) operated by the State Archives of NC (SANC), its predecessor MARS, NCHRO’s free website http://nclandgrants.com which used the MARS data, and ancestry.com which independently cataloged the…