From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 12 21:00:46 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 k6D30kjb001852; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:00:46 -0600 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 k6D30ira016179 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:00:44 -0600 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 k6D0N4FI001140 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:23:04 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6D0N4YP001139 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:23:04 -0400 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 k6CKW0FI000655 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:32:00 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6CN9TdP032136 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:09:29 -0600 X-Envelope-From: treviawbeverly@houston.rr.com Wed Jul 12 17:09:29 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 k6CN9Tjb032127 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:09:29 -0600 Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.41]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6CN9QAr019086 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:09:27 -0600 Received: from oemcomputer (cpe-24-162-26-136.houston.res.rr.com [24.162.26.136]) by ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6CN9OEC014552; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:09:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <003401c6a609$3b5c0280$6401a8c0@oemcomputer> From: "Trevia W Beverly" To: "Gloria Jewell" , References: <000a01c6a5fe$60e93410$1a02a8c0@DDY2JY91> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Old county assignments vs current Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:16:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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 by putting * county boundary changes * in your search engine a number of things will come up ... most will be for a specific time period. One of the first things I always suggest to my students is that they immediately do a "county family tree" --- trace its origins and formation .... if you do not then you are often wasting time looking in the wrong place! This is a VITAL part of your genealogical research. *** and it is just as vital to do this with European boundaries if you are researching your ancestor's across the pond. A couple of easy ways is to use books such as Everton's The HandyBook or The Redbook -- or use that wonderful book by Thorndale & Dollarhid - Map Guide to the US Federal Censuses 1790-1920. The maps are overlay so you can see the boundary changes as well as reading. Trevia Wooster Beverly Houston, Texas There is still time to register for 'the' Texas genealogy conference ... Angelina College Genealogy Conference - 10th year - at Lufkin, Texas. http://www.angelina.edu/genealogy.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gloria Jewell" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:58 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Old county assignments vs current > I have been using FTM 2006 for some time. However, I tried Legacy and found many features that I preferred. For instance, when entering a place in Legacy for a person with an old date i.e. 1650, if I use the current county name, Legacy comes back with a message stating that county did not exist during the life of said person. > I would like to find a website where one could look up these old counties compared to new names. > Does anyone know of such a sight? > Thanks > Gloria Jewell