No, Surry records pertaining to land that became part of Stokes County would not be transferred to Stokes. If the land in question was under Surry's jurisdiction, then you need to look in Surry records for the time period concerned. That's one of the reasons that knowing the county formation dates is so crucial. I gave that website in a posting several days ago. It's on the Catawba County NCGenWeb site. North Carolina State Archives: _http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/_ (http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/) The website has a reasonable list of what their holdings are, posted on the website. Katherine **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)

Thanks, Katherine. That is was I assumed. I've been working with land descriptions and geographical survey maps trying to identify where all my families lived. Connie ----- Original Message ----- From: <KDBenbow@aol.com> To: <ncsurry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [NCSURRY] Surry-Stokes Records > No, Surry records pertaining to land that became part of Stokes County > would > not be transferred to Stokes. If the land in question was under Surry's > jurisdiction, then you need to look in Surry records for the time period > concerned. That's one of the reasons that knowing the county formation > dates is so > crucial. I gave that website in a posting several days ago. It's on the > Catawba County NCGenWeb site. > > North Carolina State Archives: > _http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/_ > (http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/) > The website has a reasonable list of what their holdings are, posted on > the > website. > > Katherine > > > > **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. > (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ > 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCSURRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You might want to check Wilkes Co., NC also as Stokes was formed from both Surry and Wilkes Co., NC. I had a case where I traced a person through all 3 counties and he ended up in Stokes. ----- Original Message ----- From: KDBenbow@aol.com To: ncsurry@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [NCSURRY] Surry-Stokes Records No, Surry records pertaining to land that became part of Stokes County would not be transferred to Stokes. If the land in question was under Surry's jurisdiction, then you need to look in Surry records for the time period concerned. That's one of the reasons that knowing the county formation dates is so crucial. I gave that website in a posting several days ago. It's on the Catawba County NCGenWeb site. North Carolina State Archives: _http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/_ (http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/) The website has a reasonable list of what their holdings are, posted on the website. Katherine **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCSURRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

>You might want to check Wilkes Co., NC also as Stokes was formed >from both Surry and Wilkes Co., NC. No. Wilkes was formed from the western part of Surry in 1778. Stokes was formed from the eastern part of Surry in 1789. The remaining section, between Wilkes and Stokes, remained Surry until 1850, at which point its southern portion became Yadkin Co. Perhaps you're thinking of Rowan County rather than Wilkes? Surry (including present-day Wilkes, Stokes and several other counties) was formed from Rowan in 1770. -- Elizabeth Harris ncgen@mindspring.com Personal genealogy webpage: http://www.duke.edu/web/chlamy Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://www.fmoran.com/ HOLDER DNA project: http://www.mindspring.com/~holderdna/