Thanks for sharing your story with me. I've received a number of stories from people today about families/ancestors who have lived in the same house, but different states. Liz In a message dated 08/03/2000 7:46:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Bolil16@aol.com writes: << Subj: Re: [GAEARLY-L] FL & GA state line Date: 08/03/2000 7:46:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: Bolil16@aol.com Reply-to: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com To: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com Liz, Actually, you are correct also. The line DID move as different sets of surveyors came through the area. Only for those folks who lived w within a mile of the state line, though, did this happen. My own grandmother lived in the same house for the first 18 years of her life and lived first in FL then AL then FL then AL then FL and all of that since 1890. So, yes, that would occassionally happen, but not in all places. Sometimes there were immovable objects likes rivers or ridges to mark survey area. Then the line usually stayed put. The Early Co GA and Gadsden Co., FL line was one of the more stable lines as it was frequently surveyed from 1825 - 1845 before FL became a state. Before that it was never part of GA but was a territory of several nations. Look at your map carefully to see how close they were. Lots of them moved between two communities for the seasons. ==== GAEARLY Mailing List ==== What can you do to help?? Transcribe Census Records?? http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/ What is RootsWeb all about?? - http://www.rootsweb.com/ ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <.GAEARLY-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yd04.mx.aol.com (rly-yd04.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.4]) by air-yd03.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:46:33 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by rly-yd04.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:46:03 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e73NjYT32459; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:45:34 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:45:34 -0700 X-Original-Sender: Bolil16@aol.com Thu Aug 3 16:45:34 2000 From: Bolil16@aol.com Message-ID: <43.8734fef.26bb5e0e@aol.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:45:18 EDT Subject: Re: [GAEARLY-L] FL & GA state line Old-To: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 114 Resent-Message-ID: <.VYnN2D.A._6H.eQgi5@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <.GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/459 X-Loop: GAEARLY-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: GAEARLY-L-request@rootsweb.com >>