North Carolina has a very long history, and all sorts of records useful for genealogical research have been created all alogng the way, but where can you find them and how can they help?  Please join us on Wednesday, March 4 at 7:00 PM at the OWASA Community Center, 400 Jones Ferry Rd, Carrboro, OR ONLINE via Zoom, to hear D-OGS and NCGS president David M. McCorkle present NC Genealogy Records and Where to Find Them. 

 

This lecture will start with a brief history of North Carolina and the various entities that controlled it. This is important in knowing where to find records for the dates you are researching.  Many records are now online and we'll cover those, but quite a few are still on paper in repositories, big and small, all over the state.  We will also talk about the major record groups, why they are important for genealogy, and how to use them.

 

David M. McCorkle is a land records expert with research experience in a wide variety of other records used by genealogists.  He has recently been working with Artificial Intelligence tools to assist with genealogical research.  He has presented to national, state, and local genealogical and historical organizations.

 

He is the creator of the free website http://nclandgrants.com  which contains records for all 200,000+ North Carolina land grants along with 1.2 million images of original records.  David is President and founder of NC Historical Records Online, a 501(c)(3) which provides free online access to original NC records.  He is President of the North Carolina Genealogical Society and The Durham-Orange Genealogical Society, Vice President of the Friends of the (NC) Archives, and on the board of several other genealogy / history related non-profits.

 

David is a native of North Carolina with deep roots on many lines dating back to the 1700s, primarily in the Mecklenburg County area.  He wrote his first computer program in 1973.

 

You can read more details about David at https://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org/directory-of-members/user/367/