Dear Dean, Thank you for the clarification..... I am working with military, land , and many misc. records that make reference to the "designations" of EF, WF, and MF, and used extensively in those records, but was uncertain what areas/counties were associated with the designations and when ......am trying to marry-up various records in an attempt to sort out my many early FL family groups......too many same names.... Deborah -----Original Message----- From: Dean DeBolt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 3:15 PM To: SimplySouth; [email protected] Subject: Re: [FLORIDA] EAST-WEST Florida -Question ? There is no such thing as east and west florida after 1821. Jackson was appointed Governor of the Floridas...so both halves were unified. Since the Florida peninsula was virtually uninhabited until after the Civil War, there are references to regional "west florida" (generally area west of Apalachicola), "middle florida" (Tallahassee region and central Florida), and "east florida" being St. Augustine/Jacksonville areas. But these designations are purely localized terms and not legal entities in any form. Dean Dean DeBolt University Librarian Special Collections and West Florida Archives John C. Pace Library University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 Tele: 850-474-2213; Fax: 850-474-3338