Karen, You said it SO WELL! :-) OmahaMom@aol.com wrote: > > Look for the records of a county in the courthouse that had jurisdiction at > the time of the event (the parent county). Because many records were recorded > into books, there wouldn't be a way of taking records from just one area of > the county over to the new county. > > There can be some exceptions for finding things in the parent county. > Marriage records may have occurred over the county line if one county seat was > closer than the parent county seat. So look not in the new or in the parent > county, but in the surrounding original counties if you've got someone whose > marriage you can't find. (This may even occur in a different state, if you're > looking at a county that is a border county.) > > Karen > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > Support online research! Donate to the RootsWeb Genealogical Project! See more information at: > http://www.rootsweb.com