Both the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Historical Society have  
copies of the John Wesley Cardwell family Bible records. I did that  
back in the 1970s. I am a BIG believer in not having the only copy of  
historical papers and old pictures. If something happened to your  
originals and there were no copies, it would be gone forever. The  
Valentine Richmond History Center has copies of old Cardwell family  
pictures, as well as the original oil of Mr. Cardwell himself, which  
I donated. We still have the Bible, and keep it up, for over 150  
years now [and watch as the quality of handwriting has steadily  
gotten worse...]. But yes I agree, make and distribute copies of any  
family papers you have. And the name is Grotz, it's my maiden name,  
I'm certain of the spelling. Not that I didn't grow up with all kinds  
of weird spellings of it as I went through school. My guess is  
someone at the Shockoe office just read out "Grotz", maybe from the  
death certificate, and someone else wrote it down phonetically in  
their record book.

It's that original register that I'm curious about; what happened to it?

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Feb 2, 2009, at 2:12 PM, sharpe wrote:

> Is the microfilm of the original register?  Or is it of the cards  
> mentioned
> in the initial post?  When was the film made?
>
> As a check, you can search out a two volume set covering the  
> records up to
> 31 Dec 1950, transcribed (apparently from the original handwritten  
> register)
> by Miss A. [Alice] Böhmer Rudd.  She states in her introduction  
> that she
> began copying the records "years ago" in the brick building at 210  
> Hospital
> Street (across from the gate) when Mr. Thomas B. Morton was  
> Superintendent.
> The volumes were self-published about 1960.  LC No.  F234  R5  R8   
> 1960
>
> She shows (v2, p 203) John Grotts, bur 3 Feb 1930, age 54y 2m 4d,  
> died in
> Richmond.  Thus, the spelling error for John Grotts [sic] appears  
> to have
> been in the original.
>
>
> As for the correction issue... "His mother in law, whose name I
> have in the family Bible and written by her own father as "Ida", was
> listed as "Ina." For some reason she seems to be "Ina" in most places
> now, it will probably never be corrected." ...
>
> Scan the bible pages and send copies to libraries as well as post  
> on the
> web.  A Bible, privately held and out of public view, will do  
> nothing to
> correct errors.  Let everyone see the original handwritten entries  
> and add a
> transcription if you like.
>
>
>
>

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