From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 12 21:01:47 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 k6D31ljb003005; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:01:47 -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 k6D31jxk016898 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:01:45 -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 k6D0O6FI001196 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:24:06 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6D0O6fD001195 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:24:06 -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 k6CMRNFI000884 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:27:23 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6D14qMj001274 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:04:52 -0600 X-Envelope-From: omchodoy@gmail.com Wed Jul 12 19:04:52 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 k6D14qjb001263 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:04:52 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6D14krt031193 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:04:49 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so76393uge for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:04:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=o6nrJA6HVeqqHIgKGwzaWZKcpmXJyi9BrYBk4NNzNznf6gcqmPzZAM0HLYNf+OhS4l7cUM5dLxijFqXlKjzyZsgLyutDEY8W61RdpvTVNEZqvnM7c+RFRDbMzZ2CdtBslXKW/5su/wVQSFVv+79Sio3Blrhiyp8gcz8oOcVkwgI= Received: by 10.67.26.7 with SMTP id d7mr69663ugj; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.220.16 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:04:47 -0700 From: Colleen To: "Gloria Jewell" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Old county assignments vs current Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <000a01c6a5fe$60e93410$1a02a8c0@DDY2JY91> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <000a01c6a5fe$60e93410$1a02a8c0@DDY2JY91> 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 When I need county information, including timelines of county breakdowns, I google it. For example, Luzerne County PA + History. The fourth or fifth result down gave me what I needed as to when it became its own county and from what county it broke off from. To determine the best keywords to use in a search, create a sentence that identifies what you want to know, then use the subject and object (sometimes verb) of that sentence as your keywords. For example, my search question for the above was What is the history of Luzerne County PA? The subject and object of this statement are histosry and Luzerne County PA and those become my keywords for my search. On 7/12/06, Gloria Jewell wrote: > > 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 > > -- Colleen www.omchodoy.blogspot.com www.onlyingenealogy.blogspot.com