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/> .
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> Richmond, VA  23219
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Satellite Beach
FL

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