Hello CARPENTERS, Hope this email finds you & yours well. Phoebe and some of the rest of you are sure putting some interesting stuff on the list. Thanks! Re: MAPS I guess I should have paid attention in school to history. I just saw a map of the U.S. in 1810. At that time Alabama was then Mississippi Territory. AL was not a state until 1819. Also noted that Illinois and Michigan were part of the Indiana Territory then. Question ? Wills, land records, etc that transpired before 1819 in ALA, were they recorded as Mississippi? Thanks for any answers in advance, Donna Carpenter dcaguila@psn.net ICQ= 21109087 HOME PAGES: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/4952/