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World War II Separation Notices: Navy

The World War II Separation Notices Collection documents demographics, civilian life, and military service history for more than 250,000 men and women from across the state. After leaving the U.S. military, individuals received official documentation noting separation from their branch of...

World War II Separation Notices: U.S. Marine Corps

The World War II Separation Notices Collection documents demographics, civilian life, and military service history for more than 250,000 men and women from across the state. After leaving the U.S. military, individuals received official documentation noting separation from their branch of...

Local Government Records: Coroners' Inquisitions

Coroners’ Inquisitions contain investigations into the deaths of individuals who died by a sudden, violent, unnatural or suspicious manner, or died without medical attendance. Causes of death found in these records include murder [including racial violence], infanticide, suicide, domestic...

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Virginia Untold: Church Records

This collection contains a selection of digitized documents from personal collections donated to the Library of Virginia, including church records from African American churches. Church records might consist of church meeting minutes, ledgers or registers with Black or enslaved congregants, and...

Virginia Untold: Land Deeds

Virginia Untold provides digital access to records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black people in the Library of Virginia’s collections. Please help improve the discoverability of these sources by transcribing one of the project's many record types,...

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