The Library of Virginia (LVA) is pleased to announce the completion of
another digital scanning project. The processing, indexing, and digital
reformatting of the Madison County chancery causes is now complete.  The
images have been added to the existing index on the newly redesigned
Chancery Records Index <http://beta.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/>  (CRI)
which is now located on the Library's home for digital collections,
Virginia Memory <http://www.virginiamemory.com/> .  The Madison County
chancery index covers the years 1801 through 1881. This locality joins
twenty-two counties and cities whose chancery causes have been digitally
reformatted 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.  

 

To date, The Library of Virginia has posted over 2.2 million digital
chancery images. Sixteen localities are presently being scanned and will
be posted in the coming months. Please see the Chancery Records Index
for a listing of the available locality chancery collections. 

 

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.

 

If you have any comments, questions, or corrections regarding the CRI or
scanned images, please contact [log in to unmask]

 

 


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