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Leslie Morales <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:37:10 -0500
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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
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>

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