A posting on the THENRY -L gave me a start. We have been 'stuck' for years at William Carrol Holliday. Born about December 1844( possibly 1842) in never more detail than 'TN'. I see that North Carolina issued warrants to cover land that had to be taken before December of 1820. I am grasping at straws here. Could it be that my gg grandfather was born in a part of TN that was North Carolina and maybe his parents claimed to live in one state over the other? If the borders ran quite different than they do now maybe they lived on a border? The item referred to 'West Tennessee' before it became Henry Co. TN. Depending where William Carrol Holliday was actually born ( we have assumed Paris TN for years) maybe we have been looking in the wrong place! If anyone is familiar with that point of history from 1820-1845 maybe you can help? It would appear that besides TN I should look at part of NC counties and if there were any counties that formed in either of those states and if they consolidated into another county. Thanks for trying to follow the 'ravings' of a stuck family member!! Dennis