Virginia Cohabitation Records

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Virginia State Law
The Cohabitation Records, offically titled, "Register of Colored Persons, Augusta County, State of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife," are a record of free African American families living in Virginia immediately after the end of the Civil War. The records were created by the Freedmen's Bureau in an effort to document the marriages of formerly enslaved men and women that were legally recognized by an act of the Virginia Assembly in February 1866.

 Publications 
 * Janice Abercrombie, trans. Cohabitation lists of former slaves, in Goochland, Hanover & Louisa counties Virginia : as recorded in the Freedmen's Bureau. FHL 975.5 V2aj
 * transcribed by Cori Burner ... [et al. ; edited by Rebecca Novy. Register of colored persons of Montgomery County, State of Virginia : cohabiting together as husband and wife on 27 February 1866.Christiansburg, Virginia : Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, 2018. FHL 975.5785 X2b 1866]

See also:
Rural Records of the Southern United States