Dear Mr. Browning:
Thank you for your interest. Alexandria Library is committed to making
the Index available in a number of different formats for all potential
users.
Will keep you apprised.
Leslie Anderson Morales
Reference Librarian
Local History/Special Collections
Alexandria Library
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-2420
(703) 838-4577 x213
http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/branches/lhsc.html
Lyle E. Browning wrote:
> While I certainly applaud your Herculean labors in the creation of
> this resource, you've really just migrated the disparate sources from
> microfilm back to paper, but with the advantage that it is all under
> one roof on paper. For it to be really useful, please consider
> dissemination an electronic format which you already have anyway.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lyle Browning
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> On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Leslie Morales wrote:
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>> Researchers might be interested to know that another volume is
>> available.
>> Thank you for sharing this information with our colleagues ... LAM
>>
>> <>Virginia Slave Births Index, 1853-1865, Volume 5, S-Z
>> Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections
>> Leslie Anderson Morales, Editor
>> Beverly Pierce, Assistant Editor
>> ISBN 978-0-7884-4496-4
>> $50.00 plus shipping/handling
>> Available from Heritage Books at www.HeritageBooks.com <http://
>> www.HeritageBooks.com> or 1-800-876-6103
>> In 1853, the Commonwealth of Virginia began an annual registration
>> of births and deaths. The Birth Index of Slaves, 1853-1865 was
>> later transcribed by the Works Project Administration (WPA) and
>> recorded on microfilm. While the information -- name of slave
>> owner, infant's name, mother's name, birth date, place of birth --
>> is of immense value to genealogists, working with the microfilm can
>> be problematic. Hence the creation of this multi-volume reference
>> work, Virginia Slave Births Index, 1853-1865.
>>
>> In 2003, staff and volunteers with Local History/Special
>> Collections, Alexandria Library began to transcribe the WPA
>> microfilm, enter data into spreadsheets, and sort the information by
>> slave owner's surname and given name. Entries include single
>> births, multiple births, and stillbirths. Occasionally, both
>> parents of an enslaved infant are identified. In rare instances,
>> the name of a freeborn infant appears. Independent city and couty
>> names are spelled out. Data not reported in the microfilm is
>> denoted by "----." Illegible text in the microfilm is denoted by
>> "####." This index includes more than 130,000 entries.
>>
>> Leslie Anderson Morales
>> Reference Librarian
>> Local History/Special Collections
>> Alexandria Library
>> 717 Queen Street
>> Alexandria, VA 22314-2420
>> (703) 838-4577 x213
>> http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/branches/lhsc.html
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