Some of you may remember a blog post nearly a year ago about shredded 
pages from a family Bible submitted as evidence in a Rockingham County 
Chancery Cause. Like many chancery court records this particular case is not 
only a gold mine for genealogists but may also be of interest to social 
historians, military historians, and local historians. An extensive genealogy of 
the Smith family is recorded on the Bible pages and the depositions of the 
court case record an attempted exodus of families to Georgia as they sought 
to escape the war-torn Shenandoah Valley. These Bible pages are now 
conserved. See the work of our conservationists and read the original post.  
Today’s post also records my farewell to blog readers and the Library of 
Virginia. See the Out of the Box blog at 

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/

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