I agree. His job of checking out the 'treasures of the vault' would seem like being given a personal key to storage at the Smithsonian. Janice On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Tammy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > *Wow...Thanks for sharing!!* > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Dale Dulaney < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Trees grow in the strangest places! Take a look at the latest entry >> on >> the "Out of the Box" blog from the LVA's archival staff. It is >> about the >> discovery of a hand-drawn family tree from the 1860s in a chancery >> court >> case in Nelson County that charts the branches of the powerful Carter >> family. >> Though this example is of a prominent family, most chancery suits >> concerned >> ordinary Virginians and some even document the lineage of the >> enslaved. >> >> http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/ >> >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >> instructions >> at >> http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html >> > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the > instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html