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• Want to learn how to plat NC land grants and more? (9/16/2024) - Property boundaries in the original 13 colonies were described using a system called metes and bounds.  You will see these descriptions for all the land grants found on the NC Land Grants website, and they are key to determining the location of the land and your ancestor's neighbors. The creator of this website, David McCorkle,… . . .
• Come Hear and Meet Us at the NC Genealogical Society Fall Conference! (9/16/2024) - NCHRO President David M. McCorkle and Vice President Diane L. Richard will be lecturing at the North Carolina Genealogical Society Fall Conference October 25-26 both in person in Raleigh and streamed online.  We will also have a table in the vendor room where you can stop by and chat. David is presenting: Introduction to North… . . .
• NC Land Grants at the 2023 National Genealogy Society Conference (1/29/2023) - Want to meet the folks behind NC Land Grants?   NCHRO President David McCorkle and Secretary Diane L. Richard will each be giving two talks at the annual National Genealogical Society Family History Conference in Richmond VA May 31-June 3, 2023.  We will also have a booth so you can come by and chat with us… . . .
• Over One Million Images! (11/25/2022) - We have now passed over ONE MILLION images of original land grant documents on nclandgrants.com!  To be precise, that's 1,064,943 high quality images.  The newest addition adds 136,500 new images for Bladen, Cumberland, Johnston, McDowell, New Hanover, and Robeson.  We're down to the final order which was placed a few weeks ago, but unfortunately we… . . .
• No bunkum! 68,000 new land grant documents online for Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Onslow, and Polk (7/19/2022) - 68,000 new NC land grant loose document images ("shucks") have been added to http://nclandgrants.com making a total of 929,000 land grant related images on the website.  These new images are for Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Onslow, and Polk Counties.   Images are currently being digitized for Bladen, Montgomery, and Robeson, with 3 more sets waiting to be… . . .
• 61,000 new images for Caldwell, Macon, Mitchell, and Washington, plus assorted Tennessee counties (6/6/2022) - 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,… . . .
• 71,500 shuck images now online for Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Gates, and Randolph! (3/28/2022) - 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… . . .
• 57,000 New Land Grant Images Now Online, and . . . FUNDING IS COMPLETE! (2/15/2022) - 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, with a total of almost $10,000 received in 9 months.  For more… . . .
• Another 150,000 images for 43 counties added to the NC Land Grants website! (2/1/2022) - 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! (1/12/2022) - 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… . . .