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From: H-NET List for Southern History [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:22 AM
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Subject: The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) introduces a new
website: Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories,
1740-1810.

From: Kristin Lehner [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Subject: The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) introduces a new
website: Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories,
1740-1810.

What was daily like life in the 18th century? For slaves? For
slaveowners? What objects did people use everyday for work, eating, or
play? CHNM (George Mason University) is pleased to introduce Probing the
Past (http://chnm.gmu.edu/probateinventory), a free website that allows
users to explore these questions and many more.  
Probing the Past presents 325 probate inventories that were recorded
between 1740 and 1810 in selected Virginia and Maryland counties.  
Resources include digitized copies and transcriptions of the
inventories, keyword and advanced searches, browsing by decade and
county, two in-depth interviews with scholars on how to analyze probate
inventories, and three lesson plans.

Funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and completed in
collaboration with Gunston Hall Plantation, Probing the Past uses
material culture to illuminate the rituals and social relations of
18th-century families in Virginia and Maryland, as well as the region's
economy and connection to larger markets.

Kristin Lehner
Online History Projects Manager
Center for History and New Media


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David Herr
Editor, H-South
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Laurinburg, NC

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