And Duke research has finally perfected that cartilage replacement
procedures for joints. Lolol

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 2:11 PM Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> I was thinking more in terms of a mechanism by which people who have
> transcribed records could forward them to the LVA as eventually a lot of
> the deeds, land tax and personal property tax records would be then
> digitized.
>
> Believe me I understand the enormity of the task to total digitalization.
> I’m often asked as an archaeologist which period of the past I would like
> to visit. I always tell them 200 years into the future when diseases are a
> thing of the past, body parts can be replaced and every single historical
> record is digitized.
>
> Lyle
>
> > On Jan 24, 2024, at 10:08 AM, Brooks, Vincent (LVA) <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Mr. Browning,
> >
> > The Library of Virginia has a robust crowd-sourced transcription project
> including From the Page (transcription/indexing) and Virginia Chronicle
> (text correction). To-date, those efforts have
> indexed/transcribed/corrected over 5 million pages of original materials.
> It will never be possible to digitally reformat and transcribe the entirety
> of the Library's collections (which at last count was estimated to be
> 132,000,000 items). Further, the Library of Virginia does not have the
> ability to assign transcription work to students. Several educators, both
> high school and college level, have engaged their classes with our
> transcription project, and we certainly welcome that and facilitate that
> engagement whenever possible.
> >
> > The purpose of The UncommonWealth blog, in part, is to highlight and
> bring attention to collection materials, many of which will never be
> digitally reformatted. The goal is to make these materials more
> discoverable in searches outside of the Library's catalog. The blog posts
> are evergreen and show up in Google results. Despite our daily efforts to
> make more materials available online, it will always be necessary for some
> researchers to visit the archives in-person in order to access the
> collections that interest them.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Vincent T. Brooks
> > Local Records Program Manager
> > Office: 804-692-3525
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> > Address: 800 East Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219
> > Website: www.lva.virginia.gov<http://www.lva.virginia.gov>
> > ________________________________
> > From: LyleBrowning <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 4:26 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] The UncommonWealth
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > These posts are cogent. However, the conversation runs between
> interested parties who read the original documents. Is there not a
> mechanism for the digital transcription of them such that those of
> interested in adjacent, peripheral or directly cogent interests can have
> them in digital format? My view is that the discussions are excellent, but
> that we “silo” the information by not having it available digitally for
> others who may have an alternative view that would be best served by a
> digital archive. Is it not possible to assign classes of students to
> transcribe one page and over a couple of semesters, have a digital
> transcription of the document?
> >
> > Lyle Browning, RPA
> >
> >> On Jan 22, 2024, at 9:21 PM, Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you, Vincent, for posting the Lynchburg ledger. I guess that only
> an
> >> obsessive would say that a ledger is fascinating. As have many members
> of
> >> this list, I’ve spent many months, years, scrutinizing ledgers. I
> remember
> >> 25 years ago when I was finishing my work on the Hairston families I
> >> mentioned to Ed Ayers that if any of his grad students were looking for
> a
> >> Master’s thesis idea, they should go to Alderman and read the microfilm
> of
> >> the Beaver Creek plantation ledger kept by Ann Hairston Hairston (that’s
> >> not a typo: Ann Hairston married her cousin Marshall Hairston and became
> >> Ann Hairston Hairston. The original Beaver Creek ledger is at Southern
> >> Historical Collection at UNC.) Far as I know, none of the students
> picked
> >> up on that idea. It was only by finding Ann Hairston’s list of the
> >> distribution of blankets that I stumbled across mothers-fathers-children
> >> and from those lists of names, families emerged, and I was able to link
> >> those lists to the Cohabitation Register. And so, out of a mundane
> business
> >> record, life stories came forth. I’m working on a new study of the
> Hairston
> >> family and I expect that this ledger will be revealing because all the
> >> Hairston business flowed through Lynchburg.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> As many of you know, Lynchburg was the major center of trade and the
> James
> >> River shipping point for southern Virginia in all kinds of goods, farm
> >> equipment, imported luxuries, and tobacco, &c. Many roads led to
> Lynchburg.
> >> Hogsheads of tobacco, raised by enslaved people, passed through the
> >> Lynchburg traders and from there to Richmond and then by ship to Europe,
> >> mainly to France. (One of the things I noticed in studying the Hairston
> >> papers is how closely the planters in the interior – the broad region of
> >> Danville, Martinsville, Halifax, and into North Carolina -- followed
> >> newspaper reports of the markets, banking, currency, and war news from
> >> France, which was the major market for Virginia tobacco.) Lynchburg was
> a
> >> financial center, in its way. At one point a Hairston planter had a
> $12,000
> >> credit with a Lynchburg merchant but couldn't withdraw any hard money
> >> because there was no specie in southern Virginia. It’s revealing to see
> how
> >> the market worked. Through these records we can see how the wealth
> flowed,
> >> and we can “follow the money.” And everything, all the wealth, came from
> >> forced labor. So in these pages there are life stories.
> >>
> >> Henry Wiencek
> >>
> >> Charlottesville
> >>
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