Diana wrote, >According to THE HANDYBOOK for Genealogists (USA), Guilford was >created in 1770 from Rowan and Orange Counties. > >ORANGE County was created in 1752 from Bladen, Granville and Johnston >Counties. > >ROWAN County was created from Anson county in 1753. > >BLADEN was created in 1734 from New Hanover and Bath Counties > >GRANVILLE was created from Edgecombe, Originally Glasgow in 1746. > >ANSON was created in 1750 from BLADEN > >Nothing's easy, is it??? No, but actually things aren't quite as bad for Guilford researchers as this would make it seem. There were actually very few settlers in this part of NC before 1750, so really all you need to worry about for Guilford research are the Orange and Rowan County records for the 1752-1770 period. The old Rowan/Orange county line ran north-south pretty much right down the middle of present-day Guilford, so if your folks are in eastern Guilford, they were probably in Orange prior to 1770; if in western Guilford, probably in Rowan. Migration into Guilford in the 1750-1800 period was mostly from the north and east - further east in NC, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania. For records prior to 1750, those are the most likely areas to search. Elizabeth Harris ncgen@mindspring.com state coordinator for NCGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/