Greetings, What follows is some of the information I copied from a LDS FHC center of what's available through them for births in the state of Virginia. This is page one (1) of 8, --- one by one seven others pages will follow at about one page a day. Larry ============================================================= AUTHOR Virginia. Bureau of Vital Statistics. TITLE Birth records, 1853-1941; indexes, 1853-1950. PUBLICATION INFORMATION Salt Lake City Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1996. FORMAT on 99 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. NOTES Microfilm of the original records at the Virginia State Library in Richmond, Virginia. CONTENTS The commissioner of the revenue registered births for the county and then turned over his books to the clerk of the County Court. The clerk made abstracts to send to the state auditor and would also preserve the books in his office. The index is made from birth registrations, by the state of Virginia through the Commissioner of the Revenue and cover the period of 1853 to 1896. A * star perceding the name indicates that the registration is that of a "Colored person". The name of place in parenthesis preceding number indicates the place birth occurred, by the State Bureau of Vital Statistics, State of Virginia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- PAGE 1 OF 8 FILM # Birth index, v. 1 (a-car) 1853-1865-----------------------------------------------2026327 v. 2 (cas-eze) 1853-1865 Birth index, v. 3 (fab-hyt) 1853-1866--------------------------------------------- 2026328 v. 4 (ian-lan) 1853-1866 Birth index, v. 4 (lan-mci) 1853-1866------------------------------------------------2026329 v. 5 (mck-rec) 1853-1866 Birth index, v. 6 (red-syr) 1853-1866---------------------------------------------- 2026330 v. 7 (tab-zwi) 1853-1866 Birth index, v. 8 (a-cyp) 1853-1866 ----------------------------------------------- 2026331 v. 9 (d-haz) 1853-1866 Birth index, v. 10 (hea-paz) 1853-1866 ------------------------------------------------2026332 v. 11 (pea-sz) 1853-1866 Birth index, v. 12 (tab-z) 1853-1866 ----------------------------------------------- 2026333 v. 13 (a-bly) 1867-1879 Birth index, v. 14 (bo-cz) 1867-1879 ----------------------------------------------2026334 v. 15 (ca-co) 1867-1879 Birth index, v. 16 (cra-dz) 1867-1879 ------------------------------------------------2026335 v. 17 (ea-fz) 1867-1879 Birth index, v. 18 (gaa-har) 1867-1879 ---------------- ------- ------------------------ 2026336 v. 19 (har-iz) 1867-1879 Birth index, v. 20 (ja-kz) 1867-1879 ---------------------------------------------- 2026337 v. 21 (la-me) 1867-1879 Birth index, v. 22 (mi-pay) 1867-1879 ----------------------------------------------- 2026338 v. 23 (pe-rosc) 1867-1879 Birth index, v. 24 (rose-sti) 1867-1879 --------------------------------------------- 2026339 v. 25 (sto-wam) 1867-1879 PAGE 2 OF 8 COMING SOON