raycb@btinternet.com wrote: "By the way Essex is not a shire as some of you think." That's peculiar... Essex was a shire in 2002..What changed? On 5 Feb 2005 15:38:37 -0700 raycb@btinternet.com writes: > 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/GNE.2ACEB/42 > > Message Board Post: > > date c1150 Giles of Blacolvesiai(blakesley) date c1427 Robert Aleyne > of Blakesle(Blakesley) date c1616 Blacondsley > als.blaconsley(Blakesley) Northamptonshire. By the way Essex is not > a shire as some of you think. > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in > the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > >