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Cohabitation Registers Added to Digital Collection

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the addition of records from Fluvanna, Goochland, and Montgomery Counties to the cohabitation register digitization project. This project,…

Sarah NerneyDecember 9, 2011

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The Siege of Veracruz in Amelia Co.?

Occasionally the strangest things will surface in the county records. While processing Amelia County records (Barcode 1147160), archivist Callie Freed found a map depicting the…

Sarah NerneyNovember 30, 2011

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The Gingaskins of Virginia

November is Native American Heritage Month, a month set aside to recognize the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the…

Sarah NerneyNovember 16, 2011

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Don’t Block the Vote

In honor of the upcoming Election Day, today’s post presents a record that illustrates the struggles that some Virginians experienced while attempting to exercise the…

Sarah NerneyNovember 2, 2011

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Drunkenness is no excuse…

Ever want to claim you were too drunk to be responsible for committing a criminal act? In Virginia in 1915, you would have been out…

Sarah NerneyOctober 19, 2011

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Mayhem and Skull Fragments in Rockbridge Co.

At the October 1903 session of Rockbridge County court, Oliver R. Bane, called “Dock” Bane (alternately spelled Bain), was convicted of unlawful assault against Lone…

Sarah NerneyOctober 5, 2011

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Primary Source Offers Questions and Clues About Will, Runaway Slave

Located among the odds and ends of Accomack County court records is this 1758 advertisement from Landon Carter of Richmond County for his runaway slave…

Sarah NerneyAugust 10, 2011

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Antique License Plates

At the 24 February 1910, meeting of the Manchester Ordinance Committee, committee member W. W. Workman moved that the city auditor be requested to advertise…

Sarah NerneyMarch 16, 2011

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Virginians in the California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 with the discovery of gold at John A. Sutter’s sawmill in Coloma, California. During the next seven years,…

Sarah NerneyOctober 13, 2010

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Solid Genealogical Gold

Genealogists researching enslaved African Americans face serious challenges. Records that exist for the free population do not exist for the enslaved since slaves were considered…

Sarah NerneyJune 23, 2010