How to request publicly available records from the Library of Virginia that are not in the Catalog
What is the process to request that the library acquire records that are microfilmed at the Library of Virginia, and fall under the "all records prior to 1900 are now in the public domain" law? There are a number of personal property tax records that are available, but FS does not list them in their catalog.
A specific example: Albemarle County, Virginia Personal Property Tax lists 1852-1900.
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The LVA offers a copy service:
https://www.library.virginia.edu/digital-production-group/digitization-services/use-of-materials
Also - the FamilySearch catalog has been locked and not updated for some 3 years. You might try searching in Images.
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The catalog on FamilySearch isn't updated, all the old microfilms and newly filmed records are available in images. Look for the county or independent city you want. Then you can choose to filter by the date range or record type. Many of the tax & courthouse records were filmed 1940's-1970's so they didn't film as late as 1900. Albemarle, VA has tax records up to 1870. Here's a link to a search result for Albemarle tax records 1850-1870: taxes link here
There are much more recently added records, including colonial Virginia land records that are from National Archives, all under images. If you are looking for colonial Virginia, it will be under "search", then "images" at Virginia, British Colonial America. Library of Virginia has not had any contracts for more recent filming. If you have any more VA collections questions, I'd be happy to send you a link to where they are either on LVA or the FamilySearch website.
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The LVA has tax records on microfilm and many are available via inter library loan. See
https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/pptax.htm
I, too, have noticed recently that many records which had images that were previously available in the FS Catalog are no longer available.
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@Julie Cabitto , perhaps I didn't phrase my question properly, but the real question had to do with how to make FamilySearch aware that these valuable records exist, but are not in their collection, in the hope that they might want to acquire them.
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There is a process requiring a contract between FamilySearch and the record holder. This article gives some basic information: https://familytreemagazine.com/websites/familysearch/familysearch-digitize-records/
We've had the discussion a few times -
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