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• 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… . . .
• Thanks (over half) a Million! 77,000 New Images Online for Cherokee, Surry, and Others (9/5/2021) - 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! (8/16/2021) - 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! (6/17/2021) - 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 is now hosted on Amazon Web Services (6/13/2021) - As of June 13, 2021, the NC Land Grants website has been moved to a new server hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS).  You should see no differences and we don't anticipate any issues, but please contact us if you run into anything at info@nclandgrants.com As background for those who are interested, the site has… . . .
• Answers to unanswered questions from the NGS land grants talk (5/21/2021) - The creator of the NC Land Grants website, David McCorkle made a presentation about this website to NGS Live! on May 20, 2021.   Audience members could type questions in the "Q&A" box, but unfortunately there was not enough time to answer them all.   The following are the answers to those unanswered questions. Q: Are citation… . . .
• NC Land Grants Version 2 – Now Live! (5/6/2021) - Version 2 of NC Land Grants is activate as of May 16, 2021.   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 on what is in the new version, see NC Land Grants Version… . . .