NBC17 out of Johnston County, NC reports that all Johnston County land record books back to the mid-1700s are scanned in and now searchable online, at the Register of Deeds office website...

http://www.johnstonnc.com/registerofdeeds

All vital records, which include marriages, births and deaths have been digitized since 2003. Land records from 1940 to 1988 were digitized in 2005. Birth and death images date back to 1913 and marriage images date back to the 1700s, with some of these records being marriage bonds.

Labels: North-Carolina-Genealogy