In a message dated 10/3/98 2:47:34 AM Central Daylight Time, ALMADISO-D- [email protected] writes: << Letter writers looking for early Madison Co. ancestors will want to check a wonderful compilation by Margaret Matthews Cowart, called Old Land Records of Madison County, Alabama. The book was privately published in 1979. My copy was second printing in 1980. In 1991 it was O.P. but it may have been reprinted by now. >> A simila series was done by Marilyn Davis Barefield, under the general names of, "Old _____ Land Office Records, NNNN - NNNN. The one for Huntsville is, Old Huntsville Land office Records & Military Warrents, 1810-1854. Others in the series include Tuskaloosa; Clarke County; Randolph County; Wilcox County; Demopolis; Cahaba; Mardisville, Lebanon, & Center; and Sparta & Elba. Excellent series. aout the same price as the ones you mention, & all still in print last time I checked. Al Hill