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…
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NCHRO President to Speak at the 2022 National Genealogical Society Conference
David McCorkle, President of NC Historical Records Online, has been selected to speak at the 2022 National Genealogical Society Conference as part of their “Online at Home” offering. Here is the summary: Understanding Time and Place by Finding, Using, and Creating Historical Overlay Maps by David M. McCorkle Saturday, May 28. 2022 at 3:15PM…
Land Articles in the Most Recent North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
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…
NCHRO Board Members to Present at the NC Genealogical Society Conference
As with the National Genealogical Society Conference , two NCHRO board members will be presenting at the North Carolina Genealogical Society’s 2021 Fall Conference October 29 and 30, 2021 in Raleigh NC. DIANE L. RICHARD will present: Effective Transcription + Critical Thinking = New Research Paths (In-person workshop). Accurate transcription of historical documents is critical…
Thanks (over half) a Million! 77,000 New Images Online for Cherokee, Surry, and Others
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…
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…
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 has received 501(c)(3) tax exemption
NC Historical Records Online, a non-profit organization registered in the State of North Carolina, has been granted 501(c)(3) tax exempt status by the IRS. This designation is retroactive to the initial formation of the company January 14, 2020. Any contributions are tax deductible as allowed by your specific tax situation. We have now added a…
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…