This is a Message Board Post that is forwarded to this mailing list. Author: Scott Robert Cranston Anderson <[email protected]> Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AWB.2ACE/2211.1 Message Board Post: > I came across these names in the obits of my gr gr grandparents, > one of whom was said to have been born in Gentry County > and the other in German County. Is it possible that > present day Guernsey or Washington Counties > could have replaced one or both of them? I've never seen those names used for either county or their predecessors (Washington is actually the one original county); I'm pretty certain that they've always been known by those names. I suppose that Guernsey and Gentry could be easily confused if the former was poorly written. A vocal confusion seems less likely given the distinction between the hard G of Guernsey and the soft G of Gentry and German. Another possibility in Ohio is Geauga County, which sounds like "Jaw-gah". See <http://www.auditor.state.oh.us/studentresources/ohiolands/ohio_lands.pdf> for more info. P.S. there is a Gentry County in Missouri <http://www.rootsweb.com/~mogentry/>.