Speaker’s Name:

David McCorkle

Event Details

Land records can provide useful genealogical information beyond just time and place, such as relationships, clues to wealth, occupations, neighbors, and more.  Land Grants are of particular interest because they represent the first time a particular plot of land was allocated to settlers, and also because the grant process required a number of steps and often took several years, with numerous documents generated.  North Carolina has original documents going back to 1663, and the free website nclandgrants.com has searchable data on all the grants along with many original document images.

About our Speaker

David McCorkle has been writing software for 45 years, and is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) focusing on North Carolina research.   He created the website nclandgrants.com in 2014 providing free original document images and searchable data for 216,000 NC Land Grants.  He has lectured on various topics at NGS and numerous county genealogical societies.  He is President of the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society, and on the board of several other NC county and historical societies.

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