Hello Everyone,
I am resending the message below which was cutoff first time around.
Janet Hunter
Subj: Re: [VA-ROOTS] (UVA's Special Collections) Elizabeth Roderick's
Request
Date: 11/1/2003 8:30:11 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: <A HREF="mailto:janethunter703">janethunter703</A>
To: <A HREF="mailto:Caddowens">Caddowens</A>, <A HREF="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]</A>
In a message dated 11/1/2003 6:00:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
> Whew! Elizabeth...I read it (twice).... why not put this in genealogical
> terms that will specifically grab us; perhaps then we will be able to help
> you?
> Frankly, I didn't see anything in the message that I could relate to...but
> that is probably my own limitations.
>
> Alice in Fluvanna
>
Alice and everyone.
Unless I am terribly wrong (help me out here Elizabeth), I believe that
Elizabeth Roderick is referring in the message below on the project to (at least)
the documents/books in UVA's Special Collections holdings. If you are curious,
you should browse the website that is fully searchable, etc. here:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/
To quote the website: "The Special Collections Library administers over 12
million manuscripts, 2.5 million items in the University archives, and 268,600
rare books, as well as approximately 4,000 maps, over 4,000 broadsides; more
than 125,000 photographs and small prints; over 8,000 reels of microfilm and
8,000 microfiche; and substantial holdings of audio recordings, motion picture
films, and ephemera."
I have done research in the collection at the Alderman Library on a limited
basis. I can tell you that in 2000 the Reading Room had a number of family
type books on the shelves (ie, Cocke was one if I remember correctly). I was
looking specifically at a collection of letters and documents relating to a
particular family. I know they have several documents relating to the Baugh
family, but I didn't have a chance to look at them.
I would imagine everyone on the Va-Roots list would say to keep and preserve
everything! <smile>
Best Regards,
Janet (Baugh) Hunter
[Note this is from the Archives]
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:56:39 -0500
Reply-To: Elizabeth Roderick <[log in to unmask]>
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