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Re: death records
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Holly Cochran <[log in to unmask]>
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Holly Cochran <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 7 Dec 2002 21:42:04 -0800
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>Does anyone know if many Virginia counties kept official
>death records for slaves?

Starting in mid-1853, all VA counties were required to report deaths of
slaves along with deaths of non-slaves. In general, death records are good
until the Civil War, spotty to downright missing for the war years, and
then good again until 1896, as another reader mentioned. It would not
surprise me if some slave deaths went unreported, however.

--Holly

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