While the aims of getting more info out to the public is certainly
laudable, I wonder why those funds couldn't be spent in creating
digital images such as Chesterfield County has for its land records.
These are basically just digital images with an keyed index on a
computer.
Just asking, and hoping.
Lyle Browning
On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Childs, Carl (LVA) wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> For the last several years, The Library of Virginia (LVA) has been
> expanding its collection of county and city records on microfilm
> through
> an ambitious microfilm duplication project.
>
> This ongoing project seeks to provide access to additional locality
> records dated prior to 1900 and identified as having high-research
> value. These new reels are being duplicated from microfilm housed and
> preserved in the Library's security microfilm vault and are made
> available to the public in the LVA reading room and through its
> interlibrary loan program. The project is being completed in rough
> alphabetical order starting with the counties and then followed by the
> cities.
>
> At this time, we are pleased to announce the latest addition of 48
> reels
> (reels 75-122) of Prince Edward County microfilm to the Library's
> reading room and interlibrary loan film collection. The new reels
> contain records from the following major categories of local records:
> court records, fiduciary records, land records, marriage records and
> vital statistics, school records, township records, and wills.
>
> Please see the Library's Guide to Virginia County and City Records on
> Microfilm http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/local_rec/
> index.htm
> for a full listing of the Library's growing microfilm holdings. We
> will
> make further announcements as microfilm from other localities is added
> to the collection.
> For more information on the Library's interlibrary loan program,
> please
> use the following link. http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/ill/
> index.htm
>
>
> Carl
>
> Carl Childs
> Director, Local Records Services
> Library of Virginia
> 800 East Broad Street
> Richmond, Virginia 23219
> (804) 692-3739 (phone)
> (804) 692-2277 (CCRP) (fax)
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