From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Feb 15 21:25:07 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 k1G4P7jb006641; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:25:07 -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 k1G4P6xg026511 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:25:06 -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 k1G1uBFI021066 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:56:11 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1G1uBCG021065 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:56:11 -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 k1FMl7FI020640 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:47:13 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1G1Fqvj021420 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:15:52 -0700 X-Envelope-From: huggins_huggins@yahoo.com Wed Feb 15 18:15:52 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 k1G1Fqjb021411 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:15:52 -0700 Received: from web51808.mail.yahoo.com (web51808.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.239]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1G1Fo41013014 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:15:51 -0700 Received: (qmail 37225 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Feb 2006 01:15:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ZTbzMbWX7JDmE8c1Sj2zA60ACY7Q8QaMFxRTyUDhnu5lVMwOAmcOJyzL+1BrpnxPMSkaIJqrVAMGId7V+q4OvfudqZCN12m3RpIR/MmyBCMRL1wR0se4WP0LBcgfNRRGH1IYiWmikmI/4ZvYKT0SBhDyZ4c4VjJg8VgaBccZ6qM= ; Message-ID: <20060216011546.37223.qmail@web51808.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.101.214.249] by web51808.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:15:46 PST Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:15:46 -0800 (PST) From: huggins huggins Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Citing a location before it was a state? To: "RootsW." In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060215053526.04b95570@pop3.citynet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Hi Les, When I wrote my original email, I didn't word it correctly. My concern with entering city/county/state in FTM is when the current info is different from when the event (birth/marriage/death) actually happened. Especially county changes. Also, I thought the changes happened when WV seceded but I was wrong. Here's an example of what I meant about the counties changing: Ohio County was formed in 1776 Brooke County was formed from Ohio County in 1796; Hancock County was formed from Brooke County in 1848; Tyler County was formed from Ohio County in 1814; Wetzel County was formed from Tyler County in 1846; and Marshall County was formed from Ohio County in 1835. So, let's say I have an ancestor born in Ohio County in 1780 - however, the area she was born is now considered Tyler County. If I were to enter the info as Ohio County, I won't remember it's now Tyler. dee --- Lesley Shockey wrote: 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