May I also mention, William Dollarhide's "Map Guide to the US Federal Census". This book shows each state with the counties that were there are of the census date 1790-1920+/-, plus present day counties. When doing genealogy, one has to always ask, who had jurisdiction? In other words, if not a state yet when you're ancestor lived in an area, where were the records kept? Territorial records, US govt. documents, Governor's records, etc. Liz ------ Original Message ------ Received: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:55:17 AM EST From: Ira Harris <barebear@insightbb.com> To: ALBIBB@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALBIBB] Formation of Bibb County, Alabama Source: Handy Book for Genealogists Edited by George B. Everton Sr. Sixth Edition, 1971 Published by The Everton Publishers, Inc. Logan, Utah Bibb County, Alabama was created in 1818 from Monroe and Montgomery Counties. Bibb County was known as Cahaba County until 1820 Census Records are available from 1830 The County Seat is Centreville The Handy Book for Genealogists is a wonderful source of information for counties and their formation in the USA. Also included is a map of the State and its counties. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a serious family history researcher Hope this helps clarify things Ira L. Harris III Evansville, Indiana ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALBIBB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message