Vital Records – Page 2 – The UncommonWealth

Maybe we can learn from doodles…

Guest contributor Tricia Noel joins us to share an interesting discovery left by an anonymous artist on some New Kent County church records. Although they…

Guest ContributorSeptember 7, 2011

Fowl Play.

Death records provide familial information to genealogists, statistical information for researchers, and an occasional chuckle for archivists. My morbid fascination with death registers paid off…

Kelly Gilbert SizemoreJune 22, 2011

Conservation Digital Projects

See Montgomery County’s Cohabitation Register Conserved!

The staff at Montgomery County’s Circuit Court Clerk’s Office recently rediscovered the county’s cohabitation register, one of the most valuable records used for African American…

Dale DulaneyMay 2, 2011

Archives Digital Projects

Solid Genealogical Gold

Genealogists researching enslaved African Americans face serious challenges. Records that exist for the free population do not exist for the enslaved since slaves were considered…

Sarah NerneyJune 23, 2010