Sorry for the last message. I thought I had deleted the unnecessary parts. Hi again, Thank you all for your replies; I'll keep your suggestions in mind. The US Genweb map for Tennessee where you click on the different years and see the formation of the counties, is very interesting, as are the other sites you all mentioned. Cheryl's idea that the ancestor was born in Tennessee and moved to Illinois is a good possibility. If you go to www.mapsofworld.com/usa/, you can see that the upper northwest corner of Tennessee is very close to Illinois. Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky meet in the northwest corner of Tennessee and Illinois reaches down almost to where these states meet. At this point, Tennessee is probably only 20-30 miles from Illinois. Another person reminded me that the birthplaces listed on the censuses can often be wrong. I'm not quite ready to accept this, as both the 1860 and 1880 censuses gave the birthplace as Illinois. An online acquaintance who is working on this same line is out of town right now, but when she returns, we'll discuss it. If she has any new ideas, I'll let you all know. Thanks again, Valerie Gibbs

Valerie, You reminded me with your post, that one of my Tennessee ancestors was from TN and crossed the river near Fulton, to Illinois and they farmed there in Illinois, and later came back across the river to TN! There was a ferry at that site, and I know it went to Cairo, Illinois, as that is where my g.g. grandfather left when he went off to the Civil War across the river to Cairo!  He had been living in the Henry Co TN. Cheryl   On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 7:54 PM, Dibrellion <dibrellion@verizon.net> wrote: Sorry for the last message. I thought I had deleted the unnecessary parts. Hi again, Thank you all for your replies; I'll keep your suggestions in mind. The US Genweb map for Tennessee where you click on the different years and see the formation of the counties, is very interesting, as are the other sites you all mentioned. Cheryl's idea that the ancestor was born in Tennessee and moved to Illinois is a good possibility. If you go to www.mapsofworld.com/usa/, you can see that the upper northwest corner of Tennessee is very close to Illinois. Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky meet in the northwest corner of Tennessee and Illinois reaches down almost to where these states meet. At this point, Tennessee is probably only 20-30 miles from Illinois. Another person reminded me that the birthplaces listed on the censuses can often be wrong. I'm not quite ready to accept this, as both the 1860 and 1880 censuses gave the birthplace as Illinois. An online acquaintance who is working on this same line is out of town right now, but when she returns, we'll discuss it. If she has any new ideas, I'll let you all know. Thanks again, Valerie Gibbs ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNDAVIDS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message