{"id":635,"date":"2011-04-17T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2011-04-26T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:39:45","slug":"digitalization-of-southampton-county-virginia-records-opens-new-doors-for-african-american-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/digitalization-of-southampton-county-virginia-records-opens-new-doors-for-african-american-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitalization of Southampton County Virginia Records Opens New Doors for African American Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt;\">The entire Court Order book collection of the Southampton County, Virginia Court from 1749 through the early 1880s has been digitalized. This includes 57,000 pages, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt;\">involving approximately one million names.\u00a0 This information is free online at: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiki.familysearch.org\/en\/Southampton_County,_Virginia\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.wiki.familysearch.org\/en\/Southampton_County,_Virginia<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt;\">.\u00a0 This collection is a goldmine for African Americans tracing their ancestors who once lived in Southampton County.\u00a0 Many of the books that have been digitized were 300 to 700 pages.\u00a0 Court Order books from the 1700s to the end of the slave trade lists the names of Africans when they were first brought to the area, their ages, owner\u2019s names, and in a few cases the ships on which they were brought over.\u00a0 Wills and estate settlements lists the names of slaves, descriptions and family relationships.\u00a0 If your ancestors came from Southampton County, Virginia, you must check out this collection.\u00a0\u00a0Thanks go to Southampton Circuit Court Clerk, Richard Francis, and the volunteers of the Brantley Association of America who undertook this huge project in 2009 and 2010.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire Court Order book collection of the Southampton County, Virginia Court from 1749 through the early 1880s has been digitalized. This includes 57,000 pages, involving approximately one million names.\u00a0 This information is free online at: www.wiki.familysearch.org\/en\/Southampton_County,_Virginia.\u00a0 This collection is a goldmine for African Americans tracing their ancestors who once lived in Southampton County.\u00a0 Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,19,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[10,24,238,223,320,484,475,481,573,479,231,482,63,480,40,200,315,235,483,39,126,476,477,478,228,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}