That is why one needs to identify the Creek, River or Mountain their ancestor settled on, and the neighbors (kinsman) so they can trace deed records of the land marks in ones deeds. Thus establishing a time line to look into what County formed from What County Or even what State formed from What State. one has to remember that Hawkins County formed from Sullivan County, but Virginian and North Carolina claimed these same LANDS. Washington Co Va and Washington CO NC were parent Counties to the lands of what is know NC. Another clue is to make sure you record all deeds that were registered in a 3 day period as that is who traveled with who to get to these lands. Thus establishing a known travel pattern on when you research. Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff<mailto:jeff@ibssg.org> To: tnhawkin@rootsweb.com<mailto:tnhawkin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 11:06 AM Subject: [TNHAWKIN] Did they move to the county,or was the County moved to them? In early days of eastern Tennessee, the county lines changed a lot. One question I usually find myself asking is did the county move to cover my ancestors, or did they move to another county physically? Jeff -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG Flockmaster, International Blacksheep Society of Genealogists http://ibssg.org/blacksheep/<http://ibssg.org/blacksheep/> http://bsmeadow.blogspot.com/<http://bsmeadow.blogspot.com/> Blacksheep's Meadow http://www.flickr.com/photos/7764576@N05/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/7764576@N05/> Photostream ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHAWKIN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:TNHAWKIN-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message