The Library of Virginia (LVA) is pleased to announce that the digital
reformatting of the Rockbridge County chancery causes is now complete.
The images, over 500,000 of them, have been added to the Library's
on-line Chancery Records Index
<http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/chancery/index.htm>  and are
now available for searching through the LVA website.  The images cover
the years 1781 through 1932.  Rockbridge County joins the growing list
of localities whose chancery causes have been preserved 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.  Please see the Chancery Records Index for a
listing of additional locality chancery collections that are available. 

 

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.

 

For more information on the Circuit Court Records Preservation Program
<http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/ccrp/index.htm> , please see our page
on The Library of Virginia website. 

 

 

Vincent T. Brooks

Senior Local Records Archivist

The Library of Virginia

800 E. Broad St.

Richmond, VA  23219

804/225-4452 (voice)

804/692-2277 (fax)

http://www.lva.virginia.gov <blocked::http://www.lva.virginia.gov/>  

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