Hi Chris and All Tippers! I use my handy rand-McNally Road Atlas to locate current counties. Be careful, however. There have been many county boundary changes over these last several hundred years. I use the Rand-McNally for current locations but then refer to Thorndale & Dollahide's great book with maps for every Federal census year for every state. It shows both current and "then" county boundaries. It is an invaluable help when researching older records. Save yourself the wasted time and frustration of researching in or writing to the WRONG courthouse. Check the maps. :-) Happy hunting! George G. Morgan Chris Powles (by way of Genealogy Records Service ) wrote: > > When search acertain area of a state I use a faithful State Travel map it > shows > counties and give me state info that can be quite helpful right I have SC>TX > &AL > posted on the wall next to the keyboard. It comes in handie quite often, when > doing census work and you have no idea where this place is at also alot old > maps > are available on the net and can give you a visual where nothing else can > also > a > site to help find a town is avaiable but I'm having trouble with the url at > the > moment will post that later when I figure it out Paula AndrewsPowles > > by way of Genealogy Records Service wrote: > > > I am having trouble relating townships to counties. So many times i run > > across something that will just give the township. Does anyone out there > know > > of a master list with county names that would show all townships within that > > county. I know that they have probably changed over the years but would > find > > it helpful to know that at least at sometime the particular township was > in a > > certain county of the state interested in. > > > > Thanks for any help or advice > > > > lila miller > > > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > > If you need to unsubscribe to GenTips email the command: > > unsubscribe > > To: > > GenTips-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > > DON'T send it to GenTips-L that won't work! > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > Support online research! Donate to the RootsWeb Genealogical Project! See more information at: > http://www.rootsweb.com