Huzzah for getting those things into digital form. So much easier to share.
I just bought 100 "Gold" CDs which are advertised to hold the data for 300
years!!!!! Why, my ancestor, William Cabbell, had not even come to America
300 years ago. I don't think anybody in the Coloney even had a CD player.
That's a round-about-way of saying that I don't think for one minute those
disks are going to last 300 years, but apparently they do last considerable
longer than plain vanilla CDs. I have some audio CDs that I acquired about
1982, and they are still going strong 28 years later...... So maybe the
300-ones will go for a century. Then the problem will be WHAT to play them
on!!!!!!
Randy Cabell
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Burnett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] FW: Goochland County marks 5 millionth chancery
image
> 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) <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 <blocked::http://www.lva.virginia.gov/>
>>
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> Satellite Beach
> FL
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