Hi... Yes Wayne & Bollinger counties are near Iron/Shannon, etc... Iron county Mo was formed in 1857 from Dent, Madison, Reynolds, St.Francios, Washington & Wayne counties. Wayne county Mo was formed in 1818 from Cape Girardeau county Bollinger county was formed in 1851 from Cape Girardeau, Stoddard & Wayne counties. Cape Girardeau was formed in 1812 and is an original district... size has not changed since 1849.. (Note, this info from Handy book for genealogists.. and this date is either in error, which I doubt.. Handy has not had any error to my knowledge... or the area was given to Bollinger before its formal inception as a county.) So for records for Bollinger.. I would check Cape Girardeau county also for dates before 1851. Also, check the other mentioned counties.. the records may be in any one of them. If your ancestors lived nearer to a county seat for Wayne county... but the county broke into several.. then the ancestors may have continued (for a time anyhows) to do business in the nearest town.. so records (marriage especially) may be in different county. We would need to know a bit more, dates especially, to help you figure out what counties to check. Marge ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Cole" <dccole@egyptian.net> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 11:01 AM Subject: GENEALOGY I am trying to find my grandfather's family. His name is Theodore Nash. I am trying to find out about his father Thomas Nash m Laura Robbins. Laura was born in Wayne Co., MO with a large amount of family information being found in Bollinger co., MO. Is Iron Co., Mo near these places? I have a lot of info on Laura Robbins Nash, but nothing on the Nash family. Thank you. Diana dccole@egyptian.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~moiron2/ Iron County, MO Web Page Host Iron County, MO List Host margecam@pacbell.net http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/home.htm Visit Margie's Web Page! http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/ San Joaquin County, CA Scanned Obits Page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/ICGS Iron County Genealogy Society Web Page