Are you researching Orange County records, or county records in general?   The county Register of Deeds office not only handles deeds and real estate transactions, but other important records like marriages and births.  Please join us on Wednesday, August 3 at 7:00 PM ONLINE ONLY via Zoom for a livestreamed tour of the Orange County Register of Deeds (ROD) Office in Hillsborough NC hosted by Mark Chilton, Register of Deeds.  Unlike the standard "virtual tour", this will be live and you can ask questions during the event.   Mark will give an overview of the types of records they have, how to research both in person and online, and give a tour of the facility.   I will be in person at the ROD office to handle the livestream and interactions with the Zoom audience.

 

Our original plan was to have our July meeting in person at the ROD office, but we had some scheduling conflicts and things were getting a little tricky with the Covid cases rising.  We decided to go ahead and use our normal August meeting time for the ROD tour as online only, and will schedule the annual member "show and tell" for September.   Sorry for any confusion!  If anyone is interested in being at the ROD in person with Mark and I, please let me know and we'll see if we can make that work.  https://www.orangecountync.gov/2642/Register-of-Deeds

 

 Mark Chilton is the Register of Deeds of Orange County, North Carolina. He has a bachelor's degree is Geography from UNC- Chapel Hill and a law degree from NC Central University. As Register of Deeds, he has been working to make old Orange County records more accessible, both by putting more of them on the internet and by creating new search tools - including some that he will be presenting at this meeting.