In a message dated 1/18/01 8:55:33 PM Central Standard Time, EQueen@lexcominc.net writes: > The TN Census index (books? one for each census?)...Have the 1810, 1820 > Gene and all, Just a little FYI for TN research: I have a copy of the TN counties as they formed from the book "Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1920" by William Dollarhide It shows each state at the year of each census and how the counties formed as well as a little bit of info on each year. These are 'great' for research because you can see how each county is formed and when. For the state of TN: 1790: Census availability: Federal census lost for all counties. (couties then were Washington, Sullivan, Greene, Hawkins, Sumner, Davidson, and Tennessee) TN became a state in 1796. 1800: Census availability: Federal census lost for all counties. (couties then were Carter, Washington, Sullivan, Hawkins, Grainger, Knox, Jefferson, Cocke, Sevier, Blount, Greene, Smith, Wilson, Williamson, Davidson, Sumner, Robertson and Montgomery) 1810: Census availability: Federal census lost for all counties except Rutherford (shown as "extant" on map) and some of Grainger. (couties then were: if you want these counties email me) 1820: Census availability: Federal census lost for all counties of the marshal's dist. of East TN: Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamilton, Hawkins, Jefferson, Knox, McMinn, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Rhea, Sevier, Sullivan, and Washington. (couties then were: if you want these counties email me) 1830: Census availability: Federal census extant for all counties Now something else to consider when researching TN. This is copied directly from this book: The TN-KY boundary, intended to be 36(l) 30(l), was run too far north in 1779-1780 by VA surveyors. KY finally accepted this erroneous Walker Line in early 1820, but signicant parts of the boundary remained uncertain until a reservey completed in 1859. Some settlers in the diputed strip were uncertain in which state they lived, though TN exercised jurisdiction over much more of the strip than KY ever did. By contrast, the TN-KY line west of the TN River was surveyed in 1819 essentially on 36(l) 30(l). This would affect counties Claiborne, Campbell, Overton, Jackson, Sumner, Robertson, Montgomery, and Stewart. (in 1800 Smith, in 1790 Tennessee County) Notes for the beginning of TN: The Territory South of the OH River, popularly called the Southwest Territory, was created in May 1790. By direction of the territorial governor, militia captains took a census in July 1791. The county lines were unchanged from 1790. Tennessee county's name was dropped after its division into Montgomery and Robertson in 1796. This is probably why we can't find anything on some of these earlier Queen's. Just thought this might help. Mandy