Peggy... In a word "YES". You have to go sifting back through time to any previous county's records if your ancestor lived in a county split off from an earlier county. It is even more complicated if you find a record in a particular county that later split, but you do not know which part of the original county the person(s) lived in. You also need to be aware of any burned courthouses... and other wrinkles in the record. RW Peggy Munroe wrote: > > On the wonderful Alachua Co page maintained by Jim Powell, there are maps of > FL dating back to 1824. If, for instance, someone was born in the Tampa Bay > area when that was part of Alachua Co, would those records still show up in > Alachua Co? > > Peggy Munroe