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…
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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…
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…