NCGS members are invited to participate in the NCGS Annual Meeting on October 28th, 2023, at 11:45 a.m. at the McKimmon Conference and Training Center, 1101 Gorman Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, in conjunction with the 2023 Fall Conference. The Annual Financial Statement will be made available along with reports from the board. The meeting is open to any member and you do not have to be registered for the conference to attend, though we hope you do join us for the all day event.
Elections will be held during the Annual Meeting. Last year, in lieu of any candidates for President, Laurel Sanders served an additional year. She stepped down at the beginning of 2023 and, as 1st Vice President, I stepped in to fill the position. David McCorkle stepped into the 1st Vice President role. Those interim terms are now at an end and require voting on by the membership.
Here is the slate of candidates proposed by the Nominating Committee:
President: Jennifer Crowder Daugherty (incumbent) (Jan. 1st 2024-Dec. 31st 2025)
1st Vice President: David McCorkle (incumbent) (Jan. 1st 2024-Dec. 31st 2025)
2nd Vice President: Sandra Watts (Jan 1st. 2024-Dec.31st 2025)
Directors: Candice Roth ( Jan. 1st 2024-Dec. 31 2026)
Tyrone Goodwyn (Jan 1st 2024-Dec. 31 2026)
Nominating Committee 2 Open Positions:
Susan Michael (Jan. 1st 2024-Dec. 31st 2025)
Luke Alexander (Jan. 1st 2024- Dec.
31 2025)
Below you will find the candidate biographies:
President: Jennifer Crowder Daugherty (incumbent) (Jan. 1st 2024-Dec. 31st 2025)
Jennifer served as the interim President for the last year and has been on the NCGS board for several years filling various roles. Her work as a librarian has been entwined with her interest in genealogy throughout her 15+ year career. As the current Head of the North Carolina Collection at East Carolina University, knowledge of local and state history, North Carolina records and laws, and other types of resources commonly used for genealogy, has been essential. She attended the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University as a Jean Thomason Scholarship Award recipient. Jennifer earned her Master’s Degree in Library Science at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) and her Bachelor’s Degree in English from Eastern Kentucky University. She also holds a Certificate in Archives and Records Management.
1st Vice President: David McCorkle (incumbent) (Jan. 1st 2024-Dec. 31st 2025)
David served the remaining term on the vacant position of 1st Vice President in 2023 and was previously a Director. Specializing in land mapping and records, especially land grants, David created the free website NC Land Grant Images and Data. He is one of the founders and President of NC Historical Records Online, a non-profit with a mission to provide public online access to images of original records useful in researching North Carolina history and genealogy. A native of North Carolina with deep roots dating to the 1700s, primarily in the Mecklenburg County area, David currently serves as President of the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society and as a board member of the Mecklenburg Genealogical Society and the Historic Mapping Congress. He lectures locally and nationally on topics related to land, court records, digitization and DNA. David has been writing software since 1974 and is President of Practicore Incorporated, a software company providing web-based services to small businesses.
2nd Vice President: Sandra Watts (Jan 1st. 2024-Dec.31st 2025)
Sandra has been a member of NCGS off and on for many years and has also served as a Board member in the past. Most recently, she has been a Director. She lives in Wilkes County, NC, and is retired after 38 years in the banking industry. She spends her time volunteering for her local volunteer fire department as a medical responder, board member, and treasurer. Currently serves as the president of the board for historic Fort Defiance located in Caldwell County, NC., and was regularly active in her local genealogical society, serving as treasurer and president.
Director: Candice Roth ( Jan. 1st 2024-Dec. 31 2026)
Candace Roth is a dedicated Tarheel genealogist and historian. As the North Carolina State Registrar for the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Historiographer for Edenton’s St Paul’s Episcopal Church, and photographer and recorder of over 5000 gravesites for Find a Grave, she has loved meeting Tarheels through her service. She has transcribed over 1,000 documents for the DAR Supporting Documentation Project and over 50,000 names for the Patriot Indexing Program. She is a Life Member of the National Society of the Descendants of Early Quakers and the Chicamacomico Historic Life Saving Site on Hatteras Island. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she has two amazing grandsons and has a business, the Daisy Cottage, where she makes glass beads, jewelry and specialty soaps.
Director: Tyrone Goodwyn (Jan 1st 2024-Dec. 31 2026)
Tyrone Goodwyn, a child of southeast North Carolina, has been researching his family since he was fifteen years old. Throughout his life he has regularly visited the southeastern tip of North Carolina, where free people of color landed circa 1750s. As the son of a Pender County Jacobs, he is related to most of the other FPOC surnames across the region and across the South. Born and raised in Tidewater Virginia, he is a graduate of The College of William and Mary, Old Dominion University, and George Mason University. His degrees are in Marketing. and Systems Information, and was a Systems Architect in telecommunications for decades. Currently he is working with Williamsburg and Custis museums researching the enslaved descendants of Custis plantations. He is a member of the League of the Descendants of the Enslaved of Mount Vernon. He is retired and now lives in Washington DC.
Nominating Committee 2 Open Positions:
Susan Michael (Jan. 1st 2024-Dec. 31st 2025)
Luke Alexander (Jan. 1st 2024- Dec. 31 2025)