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| === Migration === | | === In-Country Migration === |
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| Three of the major roads used to reach North Carolina:
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| *[[King's Highway]]
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| *[[Fall Line Road]]
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| *[[Great Valley Road]]
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| Other migration routes are listed on the [[North Carolina Genealogy|North Carolina]] page.
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| Many researchers know an ancestor was born in North Carolina, but they don't know precisely where. To begin in-depth research in the state, you will need to pinpoint specific counties where your ancestors lived. Jeffrey L. Haines, CG, prepared a list of "people finders" that can help you accomplish this task during different periods of North Carolina's history. See:
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| *Haines, Jeffrey L. "People Finders for North Carolina," ''North Carolina Genealogical Journal'', Vol. 35, No. 1 (Feb. 2009):5-14. {{FHL|12718|item|disp=FHL Book 975.6 B2j}}.
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| Free native-born North Carolinians, alive in 1850, who had left the state, resettled as follows:<ref name="Lynch">These statistics do not account for the large number of North Carolinians who had migrated and died before the year 1850. See: William O. Lynch, "The Westward Flow of Southern Colonists before 1861," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug. 1943):303-327. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2191319 JSTOR] ($).</ref>
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| | bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''State'''
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| | bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''Persons Born in North Carolina'''
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| | bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''Percentage'''
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| | Tennessee
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| | 72,027
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| | Georgia
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| | 37,522
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| | Indiana
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| | 33,175
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| | Alabama
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| | 28,521
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| | Mississippi
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| | 21,487
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| | Missouri
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| | 17,009
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| | Kentucky
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| | 14,279
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| | Illinois
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| | 13,851
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| | Arkansas
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| | 8,772
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| | South Carolina
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| | 6,173
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| | Texas
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| | 5,155
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| | Ohio
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| | 4,807
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| | Florida
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| | 3,537
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| | Louisiana
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| | 2,923
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| Dorothy Williams Potter in ''Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823'' ({{FHL|265121|item|disp=FHL Book 975 W4p}}) identifies some migrants from North Carolina into territories that are now [[Alabama, United States Genealogy|Alabama]], [[Florida Genealogy|Florida]], [[Louisiana Genealogy|Louisiana]], [[Mississippi Genealogy|Mississippi]], and [[Missouri, United States Genealogy|Missouri]].
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| Robertson compiled a list of North Carolinians living in Kansas in 1860:
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| *Robertson, Clara Hamlett. ''Kansas Territorial Settlers of 1860 Who were Born in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina: A Compilation with Historical Annotations and Editorial Comment''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976. {{FHL|205844|item|disp=FHL book 978.1 H2ro}}.
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| Useful sources showing migration patterns:
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| *Dollarhide, William. ''Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735–1815''. Bountiful, Utah: AGLL Genealogical Services, 1997. {{FHL|205844|item|disp=FHL book 973 E3d}} This book contains many good maps.
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| *Billington, Ray Allen. ''Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier''. 5th ed. New York, New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1982. {{FHL|51843|item|disp=FHL book 973 H2bw}} This book has explanations and maps of settlement and migration of various groups.
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| Works on migration within and through North Carolina are listed under:
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| :'''UNITED STATES - MIGRATION, INTERNAL'''
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| :'''NORTH CAROLINA - MIGRATION, INTERNAL'''
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| == References == | | == References == |