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<>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