I should add a big THANKS to Eric and Wesley for steering me in the right
direction.


On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 9:58 AM Sally Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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 <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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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