Mr. Burnett,
These files include all of the extant documents for the particular case.
The case files have not been subjectively scanned.
That said, additional documents are sometimes found in other record
series after the initial scanning effort. Those documents are then
scanned and added to the existing images.
Basically, we scan everything we can find at the time at we find it.
Thank you for your interest,
Vince
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
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An education question please.
Are these files complete or have they been screened and what is felt the
most valuable digitized? Not intended as a criticism but just want to
know
if we find something interesting should we then pull the complete file.
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Brooks, Vincent (LVA) <
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> The Library of Virginia (LVA) is very pleased to announce the
completion
> of another digital scanning project and to mark a milestone in its
> ongoing effort to preserve the documentary heritage of Virginia's
> circuit courts. The processing, indexing, and digital reformatting of
> the Goochland County chancery causes is now complete. The Goochland
> County chancery images span the years 1731 through 1912 (the index
> covers through 1924) and bring the total number of available chancery
> images to over 5 million. The images have been added to the Chancery
> Records Index <http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/>
> (CRI) on Virginia Memory <http://www.virginiamemory.com/> .
>
>
>
> Because these records rely so heavily on testimony from witnesses,
they
> offer a unique glimpse into the lives of Virginians from the early
18th
> century to the eve of First World War. A broad spectrum of
citizens-rich
> and poor, black and white, slave and free-appear in the records.
> Chancery cases are a valuable source of local, state, social, and
legal
> history and serve as a primary source for understanding local history.
> They show the growth of business and industry in a locality, from
> taverns and churches to mines and creameries.
>
>
>
> Among the 119,000 images scanned from the Goochland collection are
ones
> related to disputes over land, wills, divorces, debts, and business
> issues. The names of slaves suing for their freedom, of the
descendants
> of the Huguenot settlers of Manakin-Towne, of planters, millers, coal
> miners, church leaders, and ordinary citizens appear in the records.
> Carefully-drawn plats sometimes illustrate cases involving disputed
> property lines and mining rights. Ornate marriage certificates and
> licenses accompany some divorce suits. Broadsides advertise the
auction
> of farms and businesses describing the land and its features or the
> business and its equipment. This wealth of information is available
from
> any Internet connected computer.
>
>
>
> Goochland County joins forty-six counties and cities whose chancery
> causes have been digitally reformatted and made available through the
> Library's innovative Circuit Court Records Preservation Program.
>
>
>
> 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
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> Senior Local Records Archivist
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> The Library of Virginia
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> 800 E. Broad St.
>
> Richmond, VA 23219
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> 804/225-4452 (voice)
>
> 804/692-2277 (fax)
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