This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BRD.2ACEB/4717.1 Message Board Post: I find the references to being born or dying in West Virginia BEFORE 1863 VERY interesting! West Virginia was not a state until 1863 and any reference to counties being formed from one to another would still have been Virgina counties prior to that 1863 date.