From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Feb 15 09:02:40 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1FG2ejb014129; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:02:40 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1FG2e1a017647 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:02:40 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1FDXkFI018774 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:33:46 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1FDXkWV018773 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:33:46 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1F8OhFI017740 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:24:43 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1FArPwL030666 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:53:25 -0700 X-Envelope-From: LShockey@citynet.net Wed Feb 15 03:53:25 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1FArPjb030657 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:53:25 -0700 Received: from tx1.citynet.net (tx1.citynet.net [66.118.64.100]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1FArNTI017826 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:53:24 -0700 Received: from Les-Dell.citynet.net (dhcp-69-43-0-135.pitbpama-max5.dialup.citynet.net [69.43.0.135]) by tx1.citynet.net (8.13.0.PreAlpha4/8.13.0.PreAlpha4) with ESMTP id k1FArL15026654 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:53:22 -0500 Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20060215053526.04b95570@pop3.citynet.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:48:49 -0500 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: Lesley Shockey Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Citing a location before it was a state? Actually I think part of the information that you are quoting is from wrong information. The county names remained the same when West Virginia became a state. There have been more counties formed from those over the years just as there were many counties formed from the original one or two while it was a part of Virginia. The records can be found in the county that existed at the time of the event if they were recorded. You can determine when each county was formed and from what county or counties it was formed from by looking at the table for the link of counties at the following page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvgenweb/ In recording events, one should always use the name of the location as it was at the time the event occurred. Les Shockey SC WVGenWeb huggins huggins wrote: >I'm in a somewhat similar situation - a good >percentage of my maternal ancestors came from West >Virginia. The area they came from was actually >Virginia until 1863, when WV was formed. > >So if I'm trying to locate someone who used to be in >the part of VA that became WV, it gets confusing. I >haven't memorized all of the counties that seceded - >plus, some counties were renamed when WV was formed. >Ugh! > >dee