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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Recording proper counties
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With so many early counties in the colonies having been split to form new 
counties, my question is this:

How should the county of birth/death be recorded for an individual in one of 
these split counties?

For example, Orange Co., Virginia was formed from a earlier county, then 
split to form Culpeper county and so on ----- so if an individual was born 
in Orange county but that area is now a part of Culpeper county do you show 
Orange co. as the birth county, or Culpeper county, or some combination 
designation like Orange (later Culpeper) Co., Virginia?

Which is the best approach? And what if someone has given a county of 
birth/death that is out of the time frame of the formation of that county? 
I.E. a person is shown as being born in Culpeper county when his date of 
birth was actually before the formation of Culpeper county?

Anthony