{"id":88,"date":"2025-10-22T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/kwchsNEW\/?p=88"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:37:09","slug":"king-william-county-burned-records-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"King William County Burned Records Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Many King William County Court records were destroyed by fire on January 17, 1885. Only 19 books from\u00a0 the county\u2019s founding in 1702 until the 1885 fire survived. These books remained in storage at the clerk\u2019s office for about 130 years and then were carefully photographed by the Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-751 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Project-pdf-copy-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Project-pdf-copy-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Project-pdf-copy.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The current job is to transcribe the nearly 9,000 pages that survived and eventually provide \u201ckey word\u201d searching capability.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-756\" src=\"https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Project-pdf-copy2-1024x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Project-pdf-copy2-1024x276.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Project-pdf-copy2-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Project-pdf-copy2-768x207.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Project-pdf-copy2.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Key Word Searchable Transcription Examples from Book 3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-758\" src=\"https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Text-Search.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Text-Search.jpg 728w, https:\/\/kingwilliamhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Burned-Records-Text-Search-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many King William County Court records were destroyed by fire on January 17, 1885. Only 19 books from\u00a0 the county\u2019s founding in 1702 until the 1885 fire survived. These books remained in storage at the clerk\u2019s office for about 130 years and then were carefully photographed by the Historical Society. 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