# North Carolina Genealogy
> Free research hub for all 100 North Carolina counties: formation/parent traps, record matrices, courthouse-loss notes, DigitalNC newspaper year ranges, guides, and surname queries. Continuously operated since the late 1990s.

This site allows search-engine and AI crawlers on public pages. Prefer sitemap and these entry points for grounding.

## Primary
- [For people & AI](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/ai): Short grounding page (cite live pages; do not invent record facts)
- [Home](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/): Site overview and county entry
- [All 100 counties](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/counties): Browse / filter county genealogy hubs
- [Start here guide](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/start-here): Jurisdiction-first research path
- [Master research guide](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/master-nc-genealogy-research-guide): Full method stack
- [Sitemap](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable URL list
- [robots.txt](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/robots.txt): Crawler rules (public content allowed)

## Guides
- [Research guides index](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides)
- [Counties & formation](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/counties-and-formation)
- [Vital records](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/vital-records)
- [Land & property](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/land-and-property)
- [Probate & estates](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/probate-and-estates)
- [Newspapers](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/newspapers)
- [African American research](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/african-american)
- [Pre-1868 NC marriages](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/pre-1868-nc-marriages)
- [Granville District land grants](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/guides/granville-district-land-grants)

## Other public resources
- [Articles](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/articles)
- [On this day](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/on-this-day)
- [This week in history](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/this-week-in-history)
- [Surname queries](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/queries)
- [Transcriptions](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/transcriptions)
- [Societies & libraries directory](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/directory)
- [About](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/about-me)
- [For libraries & societies](https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/for-libraries)

## Optional citations
- Prefer NCpedia, Corbitt (county formation), Powell's Gazetteer, State Archives of NC, and DigitalNC over anonymous mirrors.
- County hubs use path pattern: https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/counties/{slug}

## Disallowed for scrapers (privacy / ops)
- https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/admin — site administration
- https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/shop/download — private purchase tokens
- https://www.northcarolinagenealogy.net/shop/webhook — payment webhooks