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The Family History Library does not have copies of the marriage indexes at the Library of Virginia but has the Marriage Registers, 1853-1935. <ref>On 53 Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|775529|item|disp=FHL Film 2056971 item 4}}.</ref> | The Family History Library does not have copies of the marriage indexes at the Library of Virginia but has the Marriage Registers, 1853-1935. <ref>On 53 Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|775529|item|disp=FHL Film 2056971 item 4}}.</ref> | ||
To see a coverage map of FamilySearch's holdings of Virginia marriages, click [http://www.xmission.com/~jsvare/CM/FusionMap_VA_county_marriages.html here]. | |||
=== Statewide Marriage Indexes === | === Statewide Marriage Indexes === | ||
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=== Cohabitation Records === | === Cohabitation Records === | ||
The Cohabitation Records, officially 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>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> For more information about these records see the [[Cohabitation Records]] and [[Virginia Cohabitation Records]] Wiki pages. | The Cohabitation Records, officially 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>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> For more information about these records see the [[Cohabitation Records]] and [[Virginia Cohabitation Records]] Wiki pages. | ||
== Divorce Records == | == Divorce Records == | ||