RCP
Records Conservation Project
The Records Conservation Project, or RCP, a volunteer project under the auspices of Historic Fredericksburg Foundation,
Incorporated, was started in 1990 for the purpose of identifying historic court documents which may be candidates for
conservation due to their scholarly, historic or intrinsic value and raising funds for conservation of candidate
documents. To that end, a database was created to provide an inventory of court paper records and a record of the identity
and location of candidate documents. That database was the basis for the CPICS database currently used at the Circuit Court for
the City of Fredericksburg for inventorying, indexing, and cataloging court paper records and from which the Court Records
Digest was produced. CPICS (Court Papers Indexing and Cataloging System) also serves as a finding aid to court papers.
The mission of the RCP has since expanded to one of assisting Circuit Court Clerks in court records preservation. The RCP,
operating out of Fredericksburg, Virginia, is currently providing assistance in the Virginia Circuit Courts of Fredericksburg,
Spotsylvania and Stafford. Assistance is provided in the form of :
- recruiting, training and coordinating volunteers
- processing court papers for archival storage
- data entry
- repairing court records
- providing recommendations for records storage, access and maintenance
- donating archival materials
- raising funds for records preservation
- coordinating preservation efforts
- recommending preservation alternatives
- recommending preservation priorities
- seeking and obtaining preservation grants
- educating the public in appropriate record handling procedures
Records preservation, even with thousands of volunteer hours, is expensive and there is much work yet to be done. If you
would like to make a lasting contribution to history please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Records Conservation
Project. Donations should be sent to :
HFFI-RCP
P.O. Box 8327
Fredericksburg, VA 22404
Sponsorship of memorial projects, such as preservation of a specific record book, may be arranged. Please contact the Director of the RCP, Barry L. McGhee, to make sponsorship arrangements.
Return to the Court Records Digest.
Records Conservation Project
created by Barry L. McGhee, [email protected]
Copyright 1996,1997 by Barry L. McGhee
last modified: September 22, 1997
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