Virginia Vital Records: Difference between revisions

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>53 Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|775529|item}} 2056971 item 4</ref>  

Many published marriage records that are available include: ''Marriage Records: Early to 1850'', ''Southern States.'' [Novato, California]: Brøderbund Software, 1995. {{FHL|609208|item}} compact disc #9 part 229. Can not be circulated to Family History Centers. Indexes tens of thousands of Virginia county marriage records from 1735 to 1850 on microfilms at the Family History Library ''Marriage Records'' ''[Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina].'' [Novato, California]: Brøderbund Software, 1994. {{FHL|963986|item}} compact disc #9 part 4. Can not circulate to Family History Centers.Also called “Hunting for Bears” collection Indexes tens of thousands of original county marriage records from the late 1700s to 1880. fckLRfckLR''Virginia Marriage Records from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly''. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1982. {{FHL|149032|item}} This is especially useful for finding marriage information from the 1700s. It is based on various sources for 41 counties. fckLRfckLRA guide to [[Virginia]] marriage records is ''Marriage Records in the Virginia State Library: A Researcher's Guide''. Vogt, John, and T., William Kethley. ''Marriage Records in the Virginia State Library: A Researcher's Guide''. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co. 1988. ({{FHL|624073|item}} 975.5 V23v 1988. Describes the available microfilmed and published records and has helpful background information. More published marriage records can be found in the Family History Library Catalog Locality Search underfckLRfckLR::VIRGINIA - VITAL RECORDSfckLR::VIRGINIA, [COUNTY] - VITAL RECORDS. fckLRfckLR==== Cohabitation Records ==== fckLRThe 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. 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. For more information about these records see the [[Cohabitation Records]] and [[Virginia Cohabitation Records]] Wiki pages.&lt;/ref&gt;