Bingo. We've asked that it be put under publications too.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, May 3, 2022 9:58 am
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] New King William County Record Books
I had the same problem. There's nothing on the KWCHS website. The
information is in their newsletter page.
https://kingwilliamcounty.us/DocumentCenter/View/1338/April-2022-Historic-Society-Newsletter
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 8:32 AM CAROLIN WALDEN <
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> Mr. Grundset,
> I have searched the KWCo Historical Society website and I am unable to
> locate these PDFs. I would ver much like to purchase them. Please, if
> possible, tell me exactly where on the website they are located - under
> what menu item?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On May 2, 2022, at 4:10 PM, Eric Grundset <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Sally,
> > Most likely you've seen references to the fact that nineteen volumes of
> King William County records that survived the last fire in 1885 were being
> transcribed. I'm pretty sure that nothing new has been found. I produced
> verbatim transcripts of Book One and Book Two for the King William
> Historical Society, but these are only available as pdfs. Book One is
> available for purchase from the society on its webpage. The price if $50
> for each pdf. Book Two is in process to be made available for sale. I'm not
> involved in this aspect of the work, only the transcription of the first
> two books.
> > Book One is mostly deeds and seems to be the actual Deed Book 1 for the
> county covering 1702-1707 roughly. Book Two continues the first one, then
> has some pages from the 1720s, and finally jumps to documents from the
> 1780s and 1790s. Except for Book One, which constitutes the first deed
> book, the rest of the volumes are compilations of loose papers that weren't
> burned in the past. The first several of these compilations have been
> abstracted in the past by others but are only abstracts. The county
> historical society wants the current project to produce verbatim
> transcripts so that the original wording is clear and that everything can
> be searchable and accessible. I think that someone else may have started to
> transcribe Book Three, but I'm not sure. This is a very slow process.
> >
> > The books are key-word searchable within the pdf, so there are no
> separate indexes at this point. The versions for sale show a page of the
> original on the left page and the transcription on the right page. They
> both have been reviewed by others to check on spelling uncertainties,
> punctuation, typos, etc.
> > So, this must be what you got an inkling of because if ten books of King
> William County records - besides these surviving compilations of the
> documents that didn't burn in the three courthouse fires the county has
> suffered - had been found it would have been in the newspapers and been
> online in several groups' posts.
> > Your lips to God's ears on this though!
> > Eric GrundsetBurke, Virginia
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sally Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Mon, May 2, 2022 3:18 pm
> > Subject: [VA-ROOTS] New King William County Record Books
> >
> > I recently read that ten King William County record books have been
> > discovered in the past few years. Does anyone know what type of records
> > the books contain, the dates of the records, and where and when the
> > information in the books will be made available? Thank you!
> >
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