Judy, thanks. Don't now where the Hagerstown came from. Linda In a message dated 8/15/2011 9:51:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Linda writes: George Steorts (versions of the name include Stots, Stotz, Sturtz, Storts, etc.) was born according to the 1850 census in Hagerstown, MD in 1769. The 1850 US Census states he was born in "Md.", not "in Hagerstown." There are indeed occasional local 1850 enumerations that give a County of birth, but this is not one of them (for Lewis County, (West) Virginia, which was set off from Harrison and Randolph Counties in 1816). Good hunting, Judy ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message