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


On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Leslie Morales wrote:

> 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