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Generally available to present online lectures or pre-recorded webinars regardless of location.
In person talks are limited to North Carolina. No travel charges within 2 hours of Cary NC, negotiable otherwise. Can provide AV equipment if needed.
Permission for recording and/or broadcasting of talks to the general public will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Talks are generally focused on North Carolina records and research, and may be tailored to a specific county/region upon request. - yes
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David M. McCorkle is a land records expert with research experience in a wide variety of other records used by genealogists including court records, probate, colonial records, and governmental records. He has an extensive background in computer software, and has been working on using Artificial Intelligence tools to help researchers process evidence from these records in a more comprehensive and less time consuming manner.
He has given in-person, online, and hybrid lectures and workshops to national, state, and local genealogical and historical organizations, and well as corporate and government audiences. His topics include land grants, court records, digitization, maps, mapping tools, Artificial Intelligence, land records in general, DNA, land platting workshops, and introduction to genealogy.
David is the sole creator and ongoing administrator of the free website NC Land Grant Images and Data http://nclandgrants.com . This website contains searchable records for all 200,000+ land grants issued by North Carolina since 1663, along with over a million high quality images of original records. Many of these records cannot be viewed anywhere else outside of the State Archives of NC.
He 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 President of the North Carolina Genealogical Society (NCGS) and the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society (D-OGS), Vice President of the Friends of the (NC) Archives, Treasurer of the Genealogical Speaker's Guild and of the Historic Mapping Congress, and on the board of the Mecklenburg Genealogical Society.
All of these projects along with his work with genealogical societies resulted in David receiving an award of merit in 2023 from the National Genealogical Society, as well as awards from the NC Genealogical Society and from local societies.
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, and has been working in the software industry for over 40 years. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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My main focus is on North Carolina, specifically land grants, deeds, miscellaneous land records, and court records. General topics include digitization, maps and mapping tools, DNA, and land platting.
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The following presentations are typically 1 hour unless stated otherwise:
1. Using Maps and Mapping Software to Help Understand Your Ancestor's Time and Place
2. North Carolina Land Records
3. Finding and Understanding North Carolina Land Grants
4. Using the Free Website nclandgrants.com (includes demo).
5. Finding, Understanding, and Using Deeds
6. Lord Granville Grants
7. Exhausted All the Deeds? Use Other Land Records to Uncover Even More Valuable Information
8. Introduction to Property Description in State Land States (30 minutes)
9. Understanding Time and Place by Finding, Using, and Creating Historical Overlay Maps
10. Finding and Understanding NC Court Records
11. Digitizing loose and bound documents and more at repositories and home in the 2020s
12. Introduction to Genealogy in the 2020s (30 or 60 minutes)
13.Genealogical Trivia: Missing Dates and Odd Measurements (30 minutes)
14. New and New-ish DNA ToolsThe following 1 hour hands-on workshops can be combined into one event:
A. Creating Metes and Bounds Plat Maps By Hand and With Software
B. Create Your Ancestor's Neighborhood by Putting Multiple Plats Together to Map a Region -
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NATIONAL CONFERENCES
2025 May - National Genealogical Society Family History Conference *
2024 Oct - Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Annual Conference
2024 May - National Genealogical Society Family History Conference
2023 Oct - Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Annual Conference
2023 May - National Genealogical Society Family History Conference *
2022 May - National Genealogical Society Family History ConferenceSTATE CONFERENCES
2025 Nov - Florida State Genealogical Society
2025 Oct – North Carolina Genealogical Society Fall Conference *
2025 Jul - South Carolina Genealogical Society Summer Workshop *
2025 Mar - North Carolina Genealogical Society Virtual conference
2024 Oct – North Carolina Genealogical Society Fall Conference *
2024 Jul - South Carolina Genealogical Society Summer Workshop *
2023 Aug – Kentucky Genealogical Society Summer Seminar
2023 Mar - North Carolina Genealogical Society Virtual conferenceCOUNTY / LOCAL
2025 Aug - Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont Genealogical Society *
2025 Jun - Rowan County [NC] Genealogical Society *
2025 Jan - Greater Miami [FL] Genealogical Society
2025 Jan – Moore County [NC] Genealogical Society *
2024 Nov - Durham-Orange [NC] Genealogical Society *
2024 Oct – York County [SC] Genealogy Fair *
2024 Oct – Old Dobbs [NC] Genealogical Society *
2024 Sep - Wake County [NC] Genealogical Society
2024 Feb - Northern Waters [WI] GS
2023 Dec - Durham-Orange [NC] Genealogical Society *
2023 Oct – Fearrington [NC] Genealogy Group
2023 Sep – Edgecombe [NC] Genealogical Society *
2023 Aug – Gaston County [NC] Genealogy Fair *
2023 Aug - Watauga [TN] Association of Genealogists
2023 May - Genealogical Society of the Ozarks [MO]
2022 Dec - Wake County [NC] Genealogical Society
2022 Dec - Durham-Orange [NC] Genealogical Society *
2022 Oct - Lincoln County [NC] Public Library *
2022 Aug - AAHGS Charlotte [NC] Chapter
2022 Sep - Hickory [NC] Public Library *
2022 Apr - Buncombe County [NC] Genealogical SocietyOTHER
2025 Jan – NC [High] School of Science and Math *
2024 Dec – Genealogical Speakers Guild Webinar
2024 Jun - Gann Historical Society *
2024 Jun - Cline Family Reunion *
2023 Nov - Historic Mapping Congress *
2023 Mar - Let's Talk NC Genealogy
2022 Dec - Historic Mapping Congress *
2022 Jul - Cline Family Reunion *
