The Library of Virginia (LVA) is pleased to announce the availability of
additional Prince Edward County chancery causes. The images have been
added to the Chancery Records Index
<http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/>  (CRI) on Virginia
Memory <http://www.virginiamemory.com/> .  The newly added Prince Edward
County chancery images span the years 1754 through 1883. Combined with
the previously released images for Prince Edward County, the locality's
chancery causes have been digitized for the years 1754 through 1913.

This locality joins forty-eight 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 5.6 million digital
chancery images. Additional localities are presently being scanned and
will be posted in the coming months. However, because of reductions to
the Library of Virginia's budget in recent years, the pace of the
agency's digital chancery projects will necessarily proceed more slowly.
Please know these projects remain a very high priority for the agency
and it is hoped that the initiative can be resumed in full when the
economy and the agency's budget situation improve. 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]
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Vincent T. Brooks

Senior Local Records Archivist

The Library of Virginia: Archives of the Commonwealth

800 E. Broad St.

Richmond, VA  23219

804/225-4452 (voice)

804/692-2277 (fax)

Website: http://www.lva.virginia.gov
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