I've been wanting to do it for years myself, but haven't found the book on
microfilm. I don't get to the Fluvanna Court House very often, but maybe one
day!

Eric Grundset

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        From:   Hollis Gentry [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Tuesday, October 17, 2000 9:31 AM
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        Subject:        Re: Cohabitation Registers

        Actually the Freedmen's Bureau field office records
        contain a number of unique registers that are similar
        to the one you described.  Herbert Gutman analyzed
        several black Virginia population records, but there
        were others, various lists of freedmen that served a
        number of purposes.

        Some of the details in these records are amazing,
        especially when parents account for all of their
        children, living, dead or lost.  Perhaps you could
        post this to a genealogy list.  I'm sure someone out
        there would take on the trascription project.

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