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''[[United States|United States]] > [[Rural Records of the Southern United States|Rural Records of the Southern United States]] > [[Cohabitation Records|Cohabitation Records]] > Virginia''  
''[[United States Genealogy|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Rural Records of the Southern United States|Rural Records of the Southern United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Cohabitation Records|Cohabitation Records]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Virginia, United States Genealogy|Virginia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Virginia African Americans|Virginia African Americans]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]'' '''Virginia Cohabitation Records'''  


=== '''Virginia State Law'''  ===
== '''Virginia State Law'''  ==


The Cohabitation Records, offically titled, "Register of Colored Persons, Augusta County, State of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife," are a record of free African American families living in Virginia immediately after the end of the Civil War. The records were created by the Freedmen's Bureau in an effort to document the marriages of formerly enslaved men and women that were legally recognized by an act of the Virginia Assembly in February 1866. <ref name="Virginia State Law">White, Barnetta McGhee, Ph.D.,''Somebody Knows My Name: Marriages of Freed People in N.C. County by County.''(Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co.), 1995: xxxiv.</ref>  
The Cohabitation Records, offically titled, "Register of Colored Persons, Augusta County, State of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife," are a record of free African American families living in Virginia immediately after the end of the Civil War. The records were created by the Freedmen's Bureau in an effort to document the marriages of formerly enslaved men and women that were legally recognized by an act of the Virginia Assembly in February 1866. <ref name="Virginia State Law">White, Barnetta McGhee, Ph.D.,''Somebody Knows My Name: Marriages of Freed People in N.C. County by County.''(Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co.), 1995: xxxiv.</ref>  


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| align="center" | '''Title'''  
| align="center" | '''Title'''  
| align="center" | '''Repository'''
| align="center" | '''Repository'''
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| [http://www.freedmenscemetery.org/resources/documents/marriages.pdf '''Alexandria''']
| ''Miscellaneous Alexandria County Marriages and Certificates of Marriage, 1866-1867, and Couples Cohabiting Without Benefit of Marriage, December 1866''
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| '''Amelia'''  
| '''Amelia'''  
| ''Freedmen's Marriage License Book, 1865-1869''  
| ''Freedmen's Marriage License Book, 1865-1869''  
| Library of Virginia
|  
|-
|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00871?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000001&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Augusta''']  
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Augusta''']  
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00877?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000002&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Augusta]'''  
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| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00883?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000003&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01-01874?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000003&set_number=072366&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Buckingham''']  
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| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| '''Caroline'''  
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Caroline''']
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| County Courthouse
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00895?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000005&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Culpeper''']  
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUESThttp://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00895?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000005&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Culpeper''']  
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00901?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000006&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Culpeper]'''  
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST Culpeper]'''  
| &nbsp;''Register of Marriages (Colored) Under Act of Assembly of Virginia, 1866''  
| ''Register of Marriages (Colored) Under Act of Assembly of Virginia, 1866''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00907?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000007&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Floyd''']  
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Floyd''']  
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00913?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000008&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Floyd]'''  
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Floyd''']
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| '''Goochland'''  
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Fluvanna''']
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had ceased to cohabit which the Father recognizes to be his, 1866 Feb. 27''
| Library of Virginia
|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Goochland''']
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| Library of Virginia; NARA
| Library of Virginia<br>
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| '''Grayson'''  
| '''Grayson'''  
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| NARA
| NARA
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| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00919?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000009&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Hanover''']
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Hanover''']  
| ''Marriage Register of Freedmen living in Hanover County, Virginia, who were married by the Act passed by the Legislature of Virginia, 1866''
| ''Marriage Register of Freedmen living in Hanover County, Virginia, who were married by the Act passed by the Legislature of Virginia, 1866''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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| NARA
| NARA
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| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/6Y2S5FDYRF7R4FV3SS1YRP2F4JIE8JYKNBMDQ8DUDDSG7KPIDF-02228?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000010&set_number=072368&base=GEN01-COH01 Lunenburg]'''  
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Lunenburg''']
| ''Register of Colored Persons of Lunenburg County, State of Virginia, cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| ''Register of Colored Persons of Lunenburg County, State of Virginia, cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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| '''Lynchburg''' '''City'''  
| '''Lynchburg''' '''City'''  
| ''Register of Colored Population, 1865''  
| ''Register of Colored Population, 1865''  
| Library of&nbsp;Virginia
|  
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| '''Montgomery'''  
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Montgomery''']
| ''Register of Colored Population, 1865''  
| ''Register of Colored Population, 1865''  
| NARA
| NARA
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| '''New Kent'''  
| '''New Kent'''  
| ''1866 List of Male Freed Negroes and Former Owners''  
| ''1866 List of Male Freed Negroes and Former Owners''  
| Library of Virginia
|  
|-
|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00931?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000011&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Prince Edward''']
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Prince Edward''']  
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to &nbsp;Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
|-
|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00937?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000012&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Prince Edward]'''
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Prince Edward''']
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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|-
| '''Princess Anne'''  
| '''Princess Anne'''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| Library of Virginia
|  
|-
|-
| '''Rappahannock'''  
| '''Rappahannock'''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| Library of Virginia
|  
|-
|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00943?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000013&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Richmond''']
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Richmond''']  
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
|-
|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00949?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000014&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Richmond]'''
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Richmond''']
| ''&nbsp;Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866''
| '' Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
|-
|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00955?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000015&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 '''Roanoke''']
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Roanoke''']  
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
|-
|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00961?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000016&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Roanoke]'''
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Roanoke''']
| ''Register of Colored Persons Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife''
| ''Register of Colored Persons Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| NARA
| NARA
|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Smyth''']
| ''Smyth County Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife, 1866 Feb. 27''
| Library of Virginia
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| '''Surry'''  
| '''Surry'''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| ''Freedmen's Cohabitation Register''  
| Library of Virginia; County Courthouse
| County Courthouse
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|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00967?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000017&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Warren]'''
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Warren''']
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866''
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
|-
|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00973?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000018&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Wythe]'''
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| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''
|''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife, 1866 Feb. 27''
|Library of Virginia and Historical Society of Washington County Virginia
|-
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Wythe''']
| ''Register of Children of Colored Persons whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit which the Father Recognizes to be His''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
|-
|-
| '''[http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/2PPNQB96M7KVLEL386RPX3MJYPA382CBLHSQSAQE2IPN4J63US-00979?func=results-jump-full&set_entry=000019&set_number=072416&base=GEN01-COH01 Wythe]'''
| [http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/7DHMDRAXPXC1V76X9SH38RGII3YVUA2NVM2NNLRRGTHM88I86K-07233?func=collections-result&collection_id=1522&pds_handle=GUEST '''Wythe''']
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866''
| ''Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866''  
| Library of Virginia
| Library of Virginia
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=== References ===
''' Publications '''
*Janice Abercrombie, trans. ''Cohabitation lists of former slaves, in Goochland, Hanover & Louisa counties Virginia : as recorded in the Freedmen's Bureau.'' {{FSC|3754123|item|disp= FS Library 975.5 V2aj}}
*{{FSC|2948793|item|disp=transcribed by Cori Burner ... [et al.}} ; edited by Rebecca Novy. ''Register of colored persons of Montgomery County, State of Virginia : cohabiting together as husband and wife on 27 February 1866.''Christiansburg, Virginia : Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, 2018. FS Library 975.5785 X2b 1866]
 
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=== See also:  ===
== See also:  ==
 
[[Rural Records of the Southern United States]]


[[Rural Records of the Southern United States]]
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