There is listing in Campbell County, Virginia Courthouse of all free African
American men living in the county in 1850(52, I think) in the courthouse.
Please do not call them as I do not think they are allowed to look this up
for genealogical purposes, but did want to make this known in case it could
help someone.
Frank Murray
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From: "Leslie Morales" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 6:14 PM
Subject: FYI: Va Slave Births Index
> Researchers might be interested to know that another volume is available.
> Thank you for sharing this information with our colleagues ... LAM
>
> <>Virginia Slave Births Index, 1853-1865, Volume 5, S-Z
> Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections
> Leslie Anderson Morales, Editor
> Beverly Pierce, Assistant Editor
> ISBN 978-0-7884-4496-4
> $50.00 plus shipping/handling
> Available from Heritage Books at www.HeritageBooks.com
> <http://www.HeritageBooks.com> or 1-800-876-6103
> In 1853, the Commonwealth of Virginia began an annual registration of
> births and deaths. The Birth Index of Slaves, 1853-1865 was later
> transcribed by the Works Project Administration (WPA) and recorded on
> microfilm. While the information -- name of slave owner, infant's name,
> mother's name, birth date, place of birth -- is of immense value to
> genealogists, working with the microfilm can be problematic. Hence the
> creation of this multi-volume reference work, Virginia Slave Births Index,
> 1853-1865.
>
> In 2003, staff and volunteers with Local History/Special Collections,
> Alexandria Library began to transcribe the WPA microfilm, enter data into
> spreadsheets, and sort the information by slave owner's surname and given
> name. Entries include single births, multiple births, and stillbirths.
> Occasionally, both parents of an enslaved infant are identified. In rare
> instances, the name of a freeborn infant appears. Independent city and
> couty names are spelled out. Data not reported in the microfilm is
> denoted by "----." Illegible text in the microfilm is denoted by "####."
> This index includes more than 130,000 entries.
>
> Leslie Anderson Morales
> Reference Librarian
> Local History/Special Collections
> Alexandria Library
> 717 Queen Street
> Alexandria, VA 22314-2420
> (703) 838-4577 x213
> http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/branches/lhsc.html
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