The Library of Virginia (LVA) is pleased to announce the completion of
another digital scanning project. The processing, indexing, and digital
reformatting of the Powhatan County chancery causes is now complete.
The images have been added to the existing index on the newly redesigned
Chancery Records Index <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/>  (CRI)
which is now located on the Library's home for digital collections,
Virginia Memory <http://www.virginiamemory.com/> .  The Powhatan County
chancery images date between 1782 and 1929 (The index of cases covers
the years 1782 through 1938). This locality joins twenty-seven counties
and cities whose chancery causes have been digitally reformatted and
made available through the Library's innovative Circuit Court Records
Preservation Program, which seeks to preserve the historic records of
Virginia's Circuit Courts.  

 

To date, The Library of Virginia has posted over 3 million digital
chancery images. Seventeen localities are presently being scanned and
will be posted in the coming months. Please see the Chancery Records
Index for a listing of the available locality chancery collections. 

 

Chancery causes are cases that are decided on the basis of equity and
fairness as opposed to the strictly formulated rules of common law
cases.  Chancery cases are especially useful when researching local
history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions.  They
are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and
serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history.
Chancery causes often contain correspondence; property lists, including
slaves; lists of heirs; and vital statistics, along with many other
records.  Some of the more common types of chancery causes involve
divisions of the estate of a person who died intestate (without a will);
divorces; settlements of dissolved business partnerships; and
resolutions of land disputes.

 

If you have any comments, questions, or corrections regarding the CRI or
scanned images, please contact [log in to unmask]

 

 

Vincent T. Brooks

Senior Local Records Archivist

The Library of Virginia

800 E. Broad St.

Richmond, VA  23219

804/225-4452 (voice)

804/692-2277 (fax)

http://www.lva.virginia.gov <blocked::http://www.lva.virginia.gov/>  

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