Multiple Catalog Issues for Powhatan County, Virginia

lamorris70

Years ago there was a merging of Richmond County and Powhatan County Virginia with many Richmond Virginia sources appearing under Powhatan. I put up with it as it meant that there was still a way to access the Powhatan records under the name of the county. However, they are GONE now. The entire county disappeared except for three books only physically available. Searching for the keyword of Powhatan: 143 results, most are not digitized records but instead abstracts, family histories, or not related in the least to Powhatan County, Virginia. When you are looking at an actual resource from Powhatan and click the category link (For Example: United States, Virginia, Powhatan - Land and property) it defaults back to 0 sources found.

An entire county disappeared into the void unless you manually know exactly the name of the resource. When can we expect to have the data returned? This is 100% a FamilySearch issue as I can browse the images, but only if I already had the links or catalog name.

Also related in this:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/693063

The first roll/DGS is Pocahontas County Virginia. It is not Powhatan. Even the person taking the film messed up as it has the header for Powhatan, but the tax record is Pocahontas. I reported this years ago, but it appears the database was never fixed.

shecorwe

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