Date: October 27, 2015 Time: 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM Location: Olivia Raney Local History Library

NC Land Grants

4016 Carya Drive
Raleigh, NC 27610
 

Speaker: David McCorkle

The free website nclandgrants.com contains searchable data for over 216,000 land grants issued in North Carolina from 1663 to 1960, linked to 50,000 high quality digital images of all existing Land Patent Books which contain the state’s record of those grants. In addition, there are over 120,000 high quality digital images of original warrants and surveys for all grants in Mecklenburg, Wilkes, and Orange Counties. David will discuss the land grant process along with examples of the various documents generated and will give a live demonstration of the website.

David grew up in Charlotte, and after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill in 1979 he remained in the Triangle area working in the software industry.  He currently owns and operates a small software company in Cary and manages to squeeze in genealogy and local history in his "spare" time.

All ancestral lines on his father’s side were present in what is now Union County, NC by the early 1800s, some as early as the 1750s, and almost all remained there until the 1920s. Two lines, Traywick and Thomas, were briefly in Wake County in the late 1700s.
 
WCGS meetings are free and open to the public. 
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