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  • David M. McCorkle

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  • dmccorkle@nchistoricalrecords.org
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  • Wake County, NC
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  • https://www.facebook.com/nchistoricalrecords/
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  • http://nchistoricalrecords.org
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  • http://nclandgrants.com
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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.
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  • David is President and founder of NC Historical Records Online (NCHRO), a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation 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. Their main project is the free website NC Land Grant Images and Data which David created in 2014. This website contains searchable records of all NC land grants along with 750,000 associated images.

    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) and is on the board of the NC Genealogical Society, the Mecklenburg Genealogical Society, and the Historic Mapping Congress. He has given lectures and webinars to national, state, and local audiences on topics such as land grants, court records, digitization, maps and mapping tools, land records, DNA, and land platting. He has published several articles on NC land records, along with various blog posts on that subject.

    David has been writing software for close to 50 years for many types of computers/devices, operating systems, environments, and businesses.
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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 Tools

    The 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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  • Aug 2022 AAHGS (live webinar): NC Court Records
    July 2022 - Cline Family Reunion (in person): Intro to Genealogy
    Apr 2022 - Buncombe GS (live webinar): Land Grants in Western NC
    Jan 2022 - NCGS (live webinar): Finding, Understanding, and Using Deeds
    Dec 2021 - Durham-Orange GS (in person/Zoom): Genealogical Trivia: Dates and Measures
    Nov 2021 - NCGS Conference (recorded): Lord Granville Grants
    Nov 2021 - NCGS Conference (in person): Land Mapping Workshop
    Nov 2021 - Historic Mapping Congress (in person/Zoom): Describing Property
    Jul 2021 - Mecklenburg GS (Zoom): Finding and Understanding NC Court Records
    Jul 2021 - Chapel Hill Rotary (in person): Genealogy in the 2020s
    Jul 2021 - Old Dobbs GS (in person): Finding and Understanding NC Court Records
    May 2021 - National GS Conference (live webinar): Using nclandgrants.com
    May 2021 - National GS Conference (recorded): Other Land Records
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