Dear Mr. Browning: Thank you for your interest. Alexandria Library is committed to making the Index available in a number of different formats for all potential users. Will keep you apprised. 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 Lyle E. Browning wrote: > While I certainly applaud your Herculean labors in the creation of > this resource, you've really just migrated the disparate sources from > microfilm back to paper, but with the advantage that it is all under > one roof on paper. For it to be really useful, please consider > dissemination an electronic format which you already have anyway. > > Thanks, > > Lyle Browning > > > On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Leslie Morales wrote: > >> 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 > > > >