This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mills, Painter, Whipple Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/3498 Message Board Post: I am trying to figuer out what family my Abigal Mills belongs to. Any help would be most appreciated. I have Abigal Mills b. abt 1800 in Ohio; father Jeremiah Mills. Abigal Married Andrew Painter in Warren Co. Ohio; date ? but frist child, Jeremiah was b. 1822. Thank you Suzanne

Cousins, I found a web site maintained by Karon Bosze that contains county timelines for PA, MD, AL, TN and VA. (WVA is listed but at present nothing is available for that state.) To see how it can be displayed, go to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/Census/Mdco.html - the Maryland counties are listed in a matrix, with founding dates, derivations, and literature sources. Very useful for those of us who are working on Maryland branches of Mills families. That is not Bosze's site, however. When you go to it, at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/karon_bosze/ you find a variety of things, including database files in either self-extracting or zip format. I downloaded the Mdco (Maryland Counties) SE file (in .dbf format) and found that I needed a database program to open it. Since I use Microsoft Access, I found it relatively easy to import Bosze's Mdco data, but it takes some knowledge of how to manipulate database files..Once you have it within your database, of course, you can sort, reformat and modify it as you wish. So the initial inconvenience of having to import a database file is more than overcome by the later versatility of having the data in relational database format. At least in the Mdco file, the timeline info is alphabetically (not chronologically) arranged for existing counties, with defunct counties tacked on at the end. He especially cites and thanks Walt Williams of Calvert Co MD for source material, but there are other sources mentioned as well. Altogether, a helpful site, for which we should be grateful to Karon Bosze. Ted Mills