No matter what the site says I have searched one family that came into Surry, next record as being in Wilkes and then when they died they were still on the same land in Stokes Co, NC. So take it for what its worth and if I were searching for my relatives in that area I would look in all three counties. ----- Original Message ----- From: Elizabeth Harris To: ncsurry@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [NCSURRY] Surry-Stokes Records >First there was Surry, Then Wilkes was split out from Surry, Then >Stokes was split out from Surry and Wilkes. Stokes was not formed from Wilkes, only from what remained of Surry after Wilkes was already formed. Surry is between Wilkes and Stokes. The series of county formation maps that were mentioned in an earlier message are tremendously helpful when dealing with this part of NC in this period. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/countyfm.htm Compare the maps from 1760 (when this whole area was part of Rowan Co.) to 1800 for the early divisions that created Surry, Wilkes and Stokes, and then the 1850 map showing these counties as they are today, together with Yadkin and Forsyth which were formed from the southern portions of Surry and Stokes respectively. -- 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/ ------------------------------- 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