I agree. His job of checking out the 'treasures of the vault' would  
seem like being given a personal key to storage at the Smithsonian.

Janice



On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Tammy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> *Wow...Thanks for sharing!!*
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Dale Dulaney <
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>
>> Trees grow in the strangest places! Take a look at the latest entry  
>> on
>> the "Out of the Box" blog from the LVA's archival staff. It is  
>> about the
>> discovery of a hand-drawn family tree from the 1860s in a chancery  
>> court
>> case in Nelson County that charts the branches of the powerful Carter
>> family.
>> Though this example is of a prominent family, most chancery suits  
>> concerned
>> ordinary Virginians and some even document the lineage of the  
>> enslaved.
>>
>> http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/
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