Hi, Thought you all would be interested in this. Joy Pixler Hyde May my words be sweet and tender for tomorrow I may have to eat them. --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Dorothy Gray" <rogrvdot@harborside.com> To: NCCASWEL-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:54:57 -0700 Subject: LDS RESEARCH OUTLINES & LAND GRANTS Message-ID: <E131e8H-0001va-00@mail.harborside.com> Attn. All Researchers. The "Research Outline" is available for every state and some countries from the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. You can download ALL of them at the LDS website at: www.familysearch.org. There is about 80 pages of them. I suggest printing all of them out in hard copy. On 1/1/2000, www.dear Myrtle.com suggested copying these would be your FIRST priority. The Research Outline for North Carolina contains 11 pages of information to be used when you don't know where/whom to contact regarding your ancestors. Info on Archives & Libraries, Bible Records, Biographies, Cemeteries, Census, Church Records, City Directories, Emigration and Immigration, Gazetteers, Genealogy, History, Land and Property*** (Land Grants), i.e., Crown Colony grants 1735-1775; Pre-Statehood and Statehood Grants 1778-1959; County Records, Maps, Military Records including Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War and other Wars. Native Races, Naturalization and Citizenship, Newspapers, Periodicals, Taxation, Vital Records, and more! Re: Proprietary Colony Grants 1663-1729: In 1663 Charles II granted land in the Carolinas to eight of his followers, called Lords Proprietors of Carolina. These men had the right to grant their land to others. One of the proprietors was the Governor of Virginia and he issued many land grants in 1663. Records of only 29 of these are known to exist and have been abstracted in Nell Marion Nugent, "Cavaliers and Pioneers" Virginia Land Patents and Grants,s 1623-1732, 3 vols. (Richmond, VA: Dietz Printing Co., 1963, Family History BOOK 975.5 R2N (A film/copy of the book can be ordered through your local Family History Center which will be in the building of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, nicknamed The Mormons. Note: In November 1777, a North Carolina law created a land office in every county to grant land previously held by the Crown and by Earl Granville. records of most of these offices have been indexed and sent to the state office in Raleigh. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of most of these records and indexes. North Carolina also granted land in Tennessee for service in the Revolutionary War. The original records are at the Tennessee State Library and Archives. (In Nashville). The Family History Library has copies of the following records: *Revolutionary Warrants, 1783-1837 (FHL films 1,013,361-75). *Tennessee land grants,s 1788-1810. (FHL films 1,013,300-22; separate index.) I've copied this data from the LDS NCResearch Outline, in part only, for your information and so that you can see the extensive materials they have to offer us. Dot