In a message dated 5/28/01 3:19:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > There are 415 records for the 18th century (i.e. 1700's), 243 records > for the 19th century (i.e. 1800's), and also 53 records for the 20th > century (i.e. 1900's), but I'm guessing that these 20th century records > are really for the earlier centuries, but had their dates mis-typed. > > The dates are not mistyped. If you look at the records for 1990 you will see that they were signed by Governor Douglas Wilder who was the governor of VA in 1990. Ruby Talley Smith