Kathy I was always my understanding from 8th grade IL constitution studies that Macoupin Co was created from Greene Co and Madison Co as well as a small piece of Bond Co.and possibly Montgomery Co although most records indicate Greene Co and Madison Co only.  Debbi --- On Sat, 12/5/09, kathiemir@aol.com <kathiemir@aol.com> wrote: From: kathiemir@aol.com <kathiemir@aol.com> Subject: [ILMACOUP] 1825 Macoupin County on Atlas of Historical County Boundaries To: ilmacoup@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 3:48 PM Look at Macoupin County, IL in October 5, 1825 - it appears part of  Macoupin County was Madison County.  Kathie Mirabella In a message dated 12/5/2009 4:28:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  kathiemir@aol.com writes: The  Atlas of Historical County Boundaries – is online, for free, at  the  Newberry Library  _http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp/_ (http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp/)    (Click  View Historical State and County Maps).   You can change map by changing  date.  Also, changing  the layers revel some interesting data.  Look at  Macoupin  County, IL in 1820 with Historical Counties and Unsuccessful   Proposal Layers turned on. Happy Hunting. Kathie   Mirabella Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at  http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/.  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please  send an email to ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe'  without the quotes in the subject and the body of the  message Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message