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A website run by the Library of Virgina containing digital collections, a reading room, exhibitions, and an online classroom. Of particular interest to genealogists are: the Chancery Records Index which links to scans of chancery court documents; Cohabition Registers where marriages between former slaves were legitimized; Confederate Disability Applications and Receipts; Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows; Payrolls and Public Service Claims from Dunmore's War; Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants; Revolutionary War Rejected Claims; Revolutionary War Virginia State Pensions; Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications for Admission; the S. Bassett French Biographical Sketches, providing biographical details on almost 9,000 men compiled between 1890 and 1897; Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys; Virginia Legislature Photograph Collection (1857-2004); World War I History Commision Questionnaires completed by returning soldiers or their surviving kin; and the WPA Life Histories Collection, which contains images, 1,350 life histories, and 50 interviews with former slaves.
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