This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/745.1 Message Board Post: County records were burned in 1865 by Union troops. There is a book compiled of county newspaper listing of marriages, but I don't know how far back that goes. I will try to check for you. Is James E. Blalock of Tishomingo County (circa early 1860's) the same James Blalock shown in the Pickens County census of 1850 in the household of A. Blalock?