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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The documents contained in the clerk’s office at the courthouse are being preserved on microfilm by the Archives Division of the Virginia State Library.
The project, under way in Rappahannock County since February, is part of a statewide effort to commit to microfilm “all records which the state feels are of long-term, historic value,” according to Lisa Shenk, who is doing the microfilming at the courthouse.
The project was mandated by the Virginia State Assembly in 1972, which directed the State Library to “execute a program to .. . microfilm offical records of counties and cities . . , (to provide) safe storage for microfilm copies of such records . . . (and) to assist local officials in a program of creating, preserving, filing and making available copies of public records in their custody.”
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