Dear Dorothy, I thought I would respond to the list to get it moving a little, it has been pretty slow lately. This way maybe we can get a conversation going about Dallas County, AL. It is really helpful to include a general timeframe when requesting information about a family name. Don't know about others on the list, but I try to respond if I can by checking my puny resources. Do you know what time your Durden-McVay's lived in Dallas Co.? or where they came from? do you have other names that they may have been associated with (as many families traveled together and they can be found in several locations together)? what age would they have been at the time? Also, I am usually willing to do a limited number of census lookups as I live close to the Federal Archives. If it is ok with the listowner, how about everyone posting their Dallas Co roots? Occasionally other lists have a rollcall when the list gets slow, that way others may find someone they connect with and we can get this list really smokin'. Just some ideas...what does the rest of the list think? Linda Bingham Gardner desc. of Bowater Jackson of NC lived in Cahaba, Dallas Co., AL from 1819 to 1834 and whose son Nathan Hiram Jackson stayed in Cahaba and Selma