Henrico Parish Vestry Book

The Vestry Book of Henrico Parish, Virginia, 1730-'73: Comprising a History ... edited by Robert Alonzo Brock online at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=zH4FAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=henrico+parish+vestry+book&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gfy0T_ruEsSqiAKxzoCeAg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=henrico%20parish%20vestry%20book&f=false

Petersburg Chancery Digital Project Now Complete

News from the Library of Virginia

"The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the completion of the Petersburg chancery causes digital project. The scanning project was funded by the Circuit Court Records Preservation Program along with a $155,071 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The collection has been digitized from 1787 through 1912 and the images added to the Chancery Records Index. The most recently added suits cover the years 1889-1912."

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/05/16/petersburg-chancery-digital-project-now-complete/

News from the Library of Virginia e newsletter May 2012

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/news/newsletter/stories/2012_05-may.asp#warwick   Early Warwick County Court Records Returned to Virginia The Library of Virginia recently recovered seven documents that had been removed from the Warwick County (now city of Newport News) courthouse by a Massachusetts soldier during the Peninsula Campaign in April 1862. The court records, dated 1688–1751, include wills, a bond, and other legal documents and were discovered by Richard Trask, town archivist of Danvers, Massachusetts, among the Putnam family papers in the Danvers Archival Center at the Peabody Institute Library. The documents were returned to Carl Childs, director of the Library's Local Records Services Branch in a ceremony held in the Gordon Room of the Peabody Institute Library in Danvers on April 30.

May 2012 Meeting

Saturday, May 5 10 am

GFO Meeting Room

Virginia Land Records:

From the Beginning

Types, Terms

Where to Find Them

     and

 How to Use Them

Judi Scott

Southern Campaign

  You're invited to register for the October 12-13, 2012:
10th Francis Marion / Swamp Fox Symposium: "Explore the Southern Campaign with General Marion"
Immerse yourself in Francis Marion's world and the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
Approx. Times: Friday, Oct. 12, 2012: 2 PM - 9 PM and Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012: 9 AM - 10 PM
Site: FE DuBose Campus of Central Carolina Technical College, I-95, Exit 122, ½ mi E on US 521, Manning, SC.
Details on www.francismarionsymposium.com
as schedule is developed
Agenda framework for Presentations:
Friday, October 12, 2012 2 PM Sign-in
2:30 (starts with 2 presentations)
Reception Dinner in Manning
Saturday, October 13, 2012
9 AM Opening, Drinks & Breakfast Snacks
9:30 AM (continues with 6 presentations)
Displays/ Book Signings
An Evening in Rev. History Dinner Theater With Our Historian:
Joe Stukes as Harry Lee

Francis Marion Advocates: Pushing back the frontier of ignorance.
Swamp Fox Murals Trail Society
PO Box 667
Manning, SC 29102
803-478-2645
cells: 803-460-9626, 803-460-7416
Next: www.francismarionsymposium.com Oct 12-13, 2012 Plans coming.
www.francismarioncountry.com - Living History Encampment - Feb. 23-25, 2012 - Very Best Ever.
www.clarendonmurals.com www.francismariontrail.com www.swampfoxtrail.com www.swampfoxcountry.com

1940 Census

On April 2, 2012, digital images of the 1940 U.S. census will be available, for free, at http://1940census.archives.gov. ..There are no indexes as yet; that will come later, ut there are ways to access the pages for the people you want to find and you can prepare now.

The NARA website has lots of good census information and suggestions to prepare for the arrival of the census. Without an index you need to know the address and enumeration district (ED) of the families you want to find. If you don’t know the address you might look in city directories, the 1930 census, or other records available to you that would have an address. You can find enumeration maps at http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/finding-aids.html#mapsor.

Better yet, visit the Stephen Morse website. You can locate the ED by address and locations or convert a 1930 ED to 1940 here.  If you haven’t visited this site you should check it out. He has an amazing selection of “One-Step” searches, but we’ll focus on the 1940 census now. If you know where your family lived you can use this website to determine where to look in the census, even without the index. For the 1940 census go to Unified 1940 Census ED Finder. Once the census pages are online you can access the first page of the enumeration district and look through the pages for the people you are looking for.

You can also watch the Legacy webinar “Navigating the 1940 U.S. census” presented by Thomas MacEntee. It is available to view for free until March 19, 2012.

 There are opportunities for volunteers to help with indexing the census through local genealogy organizations or FamilySearch. The more volunteers, the quicker we have an index. It’s not difficult and is good experience. Get more information or sign up at https://www.familysearch.org/1940census.

Get your list ready.

April Meeting

For our April 7, 2012 meeting we will be discussing the digital archives of the Library of Virginia. We ask everyone to explore the archives for family information . After a short presentation we will share our finds with the group.  See you all in April!