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…
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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…
The Shuck Digitization Project is off to a great start!
NC Historical Records Online is happy to announce that our project for digitization of the NC land grant loose documents, a.k.a. “the shucks”, has been a huge success so far! In the past month we received over $6,000 in donations which will purchase 392 reels of microfilm containing over 400,000 images. Donations came from 76…
New project: acquiring DVDs of microfilms from the State Archives of NC
We have started a new project to obtain content for our upcoming website with images of original North Carolina records. A good starting point are the DVDs made from microfilms which can be purchased on-demand from the State Archives of North Carolina. We would like people who have purchased any of these DVDs to share…