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More Augusta County Images Are Here!

The latest images from the Augusta County Chancery Causes are now available on the Chancery Records Index. With this addition, one hundred boxes of Augusta County…

Greg CrawfordAugust 16, 2011

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Additional Prince Edward County Chancery Causes Added to CRI!

Additional Prince Edward County chancery causes are now available on the Chancery Records Index. These additions span the years 1754 through 1883. Combined with the previously…

Dale DulaneyAugust 8, 2011

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Library of Virginia Receives $155,071 NEH Grant to Scan Petersburg Chancery Records

The Library of Virginia has received a grant of $155,071 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the scanning of the City of Petersburg chancery…

Dale DulaneyMay 5, 2011

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Pre-Civil War Chancery Causes Rediscovered in Middlesex County Courthouse.

Local Records archivists recently travelled to the Middlesex County Circuit Court Clerk’s office to transfer their pre-1913 chancery causes to the Library of Virginia as…

Greg CrawfordMarch 29, 2011

Archives Digital Projects

And They’re Off!

The long anticipated start of the Augusta County Chancery scanning project has begun! The first 50 boxes of chancery cases were transferred to LVA’s digital…

Carl ChildsFebruary 17, 2011

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What’s In A Name?

Editor’s note: Archivists at The Library of Virginia often find people from the past in the collection who are so appropriately named that they seem…

Sherri BagleyJanuary 26, 2011

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IRON, WHISKEY, RAILROADS, AND RACE ARE FINDS IN NEWLY PROCESSED CHANCERY COLLECTIONS

Editor’s Note: The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that scanning has now been performed on the Craig County and Pulaski County chancery causes. The…

Bari HelmsJanuary 5, 2011

Archives Digital Projects

Grant Awarded to Aid in Digitizing Augusta County Chancery

The Library of Virginia’s Local Records Services Branch was recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to support the scanning…

Carl ChildsDecember 21, 2010

Archives Digital Projects The Stacks

Take a Bow. Five Million Documents Scanned!

Library of Virginia (LVA) staff, partners, and dignitaries gathered at the Goochland County courthouse Thursday to celebrate a milestone in a project that aims to…

Dale DulaneyOctober 15, 2010

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Virginians in the California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 with the discovery of gold at John A. Sutter’s sawmill in Coloma, California. During the next seven years,…

Sarah NerneyOctober 13, 2010

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Broken Vows

In 1913, Mary Ella Gray stated in a deposition that she moved to her parents’ home in Fredericksburg after her husband James “continuously abused me,…

Joanne PorterSeptember 8, 2010

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Ripped From the Family Bible

When I found an unopened envelope labeled “Exhibit A” among the papers of a Rockingham County Chancery cause, I was curious to see what could…

Dale DulaneyAugust 4, 2010

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A Tree Grows In… Chancery!

When Mary Walker Cabell died in 1862, a series of chancery suits were filed in Nelson County by her numerous descendants in an attempt to…

Callie FreedJuly 14, 2010

Archives Conservation Digital Projects The Stacks

Chancery, Pie, Road Trip

A group of Library of Virginia (LVA) archivists recently traveled to Staunton, Virginia, to visit the Augusta County courthouse. Their goal was to transfer more…

Dale DulaneyJune 28, 2010