I got them through my local library in Delaware. --Sally Phillips ----- Original Message ----- From: "Digital Heritage of Virginia" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Library of Virginia Microfilm Duplication Project > Are these records available online to folks like me out here in the > hinterlands, or are they limited to 'walk-ins' in Richmond? > > Randy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Childs, Carl (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:16 PM > Subject: [VA-HIST] Library of Virginia Microfilm Duplication Project > > > Greetings, > > > > For the last several years, The Library of Virginia (LVA) has been > expanding its collection of county and city records on microfilm through > an ambitious microfilm duplication project. > > > > This ongoing project seeks to provide access to additional locality > records dated prior to 1900 and identified as having high-research > value. These new reels are being duplicated from microfilm housed and > preserved in the Library's security microfilm vault and are made > available to the public in the LVA reading room and through its > interlibrary loan program. The project is being completed in rough > alphabetical order starting with the counties and then followed by the > cities. > > > > At this time, we are pleased to announce the latest addition of 11 reels > (reels 172-182) of Rappahannock County microfilm to the Library's > reading room and interlibrary loan film collection. The new reels > contain records from the following major categories of local records: > Court Records, Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, and Wills. In > addition, we have added 50 reels of Richmond County microfilm (reels > 171-220). These new reels contain records from the following major > categories of local records: Court Records, Land Records, Marriage > Records and Vital Statistics, Military and Pension Records, Board of > Supervisor Records, and School Records. > > > > Please see the Library's Guide to Virginia County and City Records on > Microfilm http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/local_rec/index.htm > for a full listing of the Library's growing microfilm holdings. We will > make further announcements as microfilm from other localities is added > to the collection. > > For more information on the Library's interlibrary loan program, please > use the following link. http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/ill/index.htm > > > > > > Carl > > Carl Childs > Director, Local Records Services > Library of Virginia > 800 East Broad Street > Richmond, Virginia 23219 > (804) 692-3739 (phone) > (804) 692-2277 (CCRP) (fax) > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html