This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADE/847.1 Message Board Post: The easiest way is to look in a plat book for the time period that your family owned the farm. I have an 1895 plat book for Shelby County if that is any help. There is an insurance company in Shelbyville that sells current plat books, however they do not keep prior year books for historical reasons. The Shelby County Hist. & Gen. Society may have boks through the years you need. Their phone number is 217-774-2260. They may operate on a redued schedule until later in the Spring. What years and what name was the farm owned by?