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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,…

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…

The most recent issue of the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal (volume 47 # 3) has been released.  The focus of this issue is on North Carolina land records, and there are two articles by David McCorkle, President of NCHRO: North Carolina Land Grant Records, and Researching Lord Granville Grants.  There are a number of…

There are now a total of 524,554 high quality images of land grant records for over 200,000 grants available on the free website nclandgrants.com .  The latest addition adds 77,000 “shuck” images representing 14,000 grants in Brunswick, Cherokee, Guilford, and Surry counties issued from 1764 to 1959.  Thanks to everyone who donated (and plan to…