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…
Category: NC Land Grants
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…
Bertie, Burke, Moore, and more! 143,000 new shuck images for 17 counties are now online!
Thanks to your generous donations and the always excellent effort of the State Archives Microfilm Lab, the first set of shuck images has been digitized, processed, and is now online! This includes the following counties. Beaufort, Bertie, Burke, Clay, Edgecombe*, Glasgow, Graham, Granville, Greene, Haywood, Martin, Moore, Pitt, Stanley, Stokes*, Swain, and Tyrrell* [* some…
NC Land Grants Version 2
Version 2 of NC Land Grants will be released the weekend of May 15, 2021. We encourage everyone to check it out at https://testing.nclandgrants.com . You can use your existing userid and password, and all your flagged records and defaults are retained. Please report any problems or comments in general to info@nclandgrants.com . For details…
NCHRO board members will present at the National Genealogical Society Conference 2021!
We are pleased to announce that not one but TWO of our board members will be presenting at the National Genealogical Society 2021 Conference (online) in May 2021! One talk will feature our main project, nclandgrants.com . Here is a brief description of the talks: David M. McCorkle will present: Easily Find Your North Carolina…