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  • David McCorkle

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  • David McCorkle

  • 102 Brimmer Court
  • NC

  • 27518
  • United States
  • (919) 362-3777
  • (GMT -5:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada), Bogota, Lima
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  • http://davidmccorkle.com

  • David McCorkle is President and founder of NC Historical Records Online (NCHRO), a 501(c)(3) non-profit with a mission to provide public online access to images of original records and other relevant information useful to researching North Carolina history and genealogy. He is the creator of NCHRO’s main project, the free website NC Land Grant Images and Data http://nclandgrants.com, which contains searchable records for all 200,000+ land grants issued by North Carolina along with over a million images of original records.

    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 is President of the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society (D-OGS), First Vice President of the North Carolina Genealogical Society, and is on the board the Mecklenburg Genealogical Society and the Historic Mapping Congress. David wrote his first computer program in 1974, and has recently retired after working in the software industry for over 40 years.

  • National Genealogical Society, Award of Merit 2023

  • Land records, maps and mapping tools, North Carolina research

  • A. LAND RECORDS
    1. Finding and Understanding North Carolina Land Grants
    2. Using the Free Website nclandgrants.com (includes demo).
    3. Finding, Understanding, and Using Deeds
    4. Lord Granville Grants
    5. Exhausted All the Deeds? Use Other Land Records to Uncover Even More Valuable Information
    6. North Carolina Land Records (combines the above in a 1 to 4 hour presentation)
    7. Introduction to Property Description in State Land States (30 minutes)
    8. Tracing Land Ownership Over Time: Forwards, Backwards, and from the Middle

    B. MAPS
    1. Using Maps and Mapping Software to Help Understand Your Ancestor's Time and Place
    2. Understanding Time and Place by Finding, Using, and Creating Historical Overlay Maps

    C. OTHER RECORDS
    1. Finding and Understanding NC Court Records

    D. MISCELLANEOUS
    1. Digitizing loose and bound documents and more at repositories and home in the 2020s
    2. Introduction to Genealogy in the 2020s (30 or 60 minutes)
    3.Genealogical Trivia: Missing Dates and Odd Measurements (30 minutes)
    4. New and New-ish DNA Tools
    5. Newpaper research
    6. Useful websites
    7. The Albemarle Sound Region of North Carolina and Virginia: Genealogical Resources and Research

    E. WORKSHOPS (In person or online)
    1. Creating Metes and Bounds Plat Maps By Hand and With Software
    2. Create Your Ancestor's Neighborhood by Putting Multiple Plats Together to Map a Region

  • Travel expenses may be billed for in-person lectures more than 60 miles from Cary NC

  • * = in person

    2023 Sep – Edgecombe Genealogical Society *

    2023 Aug – Gaston County Genealogy Fair *

    2023 Aug – Kentucky Genealogical Society Summer Seminar

    2023 Aug - Watauga Association of Genealogists

    2023 May - National Genealogical Society Family History Conference *
    2023 May - Genealogical Society of the Ozarks
    2023 Mar - Let's Talk NC Genealogy
    2023 Mar - NC Genealogical Society Virtual conference

    2022 Dec - Wake County Genealogical Society
    2022 Dec - Durham-Orange Genealogical Society *
    2022 Dec - Historic Mapping Congress *
    2022 Oct - Lincoln County Public Library *
    2022 Aug - AAHGS Charlotte Chapter
    2022 Sep - Hickory Public Library *
    2022 Jul - Cline Family Reunion *

    2022 Apr - Buncombe County Genealogical Society
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