These posts are just some of the info I took out of some genealogy society books at our local FHC: ******************* The GA Genealogy Society Quarterly V 10 #1 1974 p. 43 Burke County GA, Court of Ordinary Tax Diegest 1798 - Georgia Department of Archive and History microfilm Drawer 186, Box 6: Coates, Josiah (there were of course a lot of other names listed but I only took the Coats info out of the list...same with the rest of these) ********************** One of the books had an old GA map in it showing county formation dates: Franklin - 17?4; Wilkes 1777, Richmond 1777, Burke 1777, Effingham 1777, Washington 178? - this is west and borders all of the above counties; Chatman 1777; Jefferson County from Burke, Richmond and Washington Counties ****************** Same as above but apparently I didn't get the vol info - Brides index Gwinnet County, GA marriages 1840-1900 Coats, Cora, 56 Sarah F, 20 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com