Have I mentioned that this was going to be an unusually slow travel season for me? Until recently, my courthouse visits had been sporadic and…
Eddie WoodwardAugust 21, 2024
And so, with my final week-long travel stay in Salem in August completed, my fellow traveler, Tracy Harter, and I settled into the post-frenzied-travel, winter…
Eddie WoodwardMarch 27, 2024
In mid-August I began what might be termed the final leg of my summer CCRP travel schedule. Throughout the course of the spring and summer,…
Eddie WoodwardFebruary 21, 2024
As my traveling colleague, Tracy Harter, mentioned in her last installment for Records Room Road Trips, we alternate posts between the two of us, and…
Eddie WoodwardOctober 27, 2023
As we mentioned in the last installment for the “Records Room Road Trips” series, the spring and summer have brought more overnight stays as we’ve…
Eddie WoodwardAugust 23, 2023
Travel for Library of Virginia Circuit Court Records Program (CCRP) consulting archivists begins to taper off when the grants are announced, which this past year…
Eddie WoodwardJune 21, 2023
Visiting John and Lucinda Smith at their home in Belton, South Carolina, could be a little complicated if one were traveling from out of town.…
Eddie WoodwardNovember 10, 2021
It is not uncommon to see immigration and migration references when processing local records collections, so it was not especially surprising to find a few…
Eddie WoodwardJuly 21, 2021
The Commonwealth of Virginia, the Library of Virginia, and the 120 circuit court clerks’ offices across the state can document the history of their collaborative…
Eddie WoodwardAugust 12, 2020
Editors’ note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of the CCRP Newsletter. A long history of collaboration exists between the Library of Virginia…
Eddie WoodwardApril 10, 2019
When processing a collection of old court papers, sometimes archivists have to use their imagination to interpret what was written. The words don’t always make…
Eddie WoodwardAugust 16, 2017
In 1915, Richmond native Morgan P. Robinson became the chief of the Archives Department at the Virginia State Library (now the Library of Virginia); three…
Eddie WoodwardMay 10, 2017
The naming of the local history and genealogy reading room at Newport News Public Library after Martha Woodroof Hiden is well deserved. Born in Orange…
Eddie WoodwardJanuary 18, 2017
