I just received my Genealogy Bulletin from Heritage Quest and thought I would pass this little tid bit along for all to see. We all know Texas became a state in 1845 so the first federal census was in 1850 right? Wrong There was Miller County Arkansas Territory enumerated in 1820 and again in 1830 which was within an area that is now part of North Eastern Texas. The 1820 census was taken for people living on both the north and south sides of the Red River, all within Texas and part of present day Oklahoma. The main settlement there was Pecan Point. In 1828, congress established the line between present day Arkansas and Oklahoma as the Eastern boundary of the Indian Territory. At that time any white settlers north of the Red River were removed to areas south of the River. By the time of the 1830 census several thousand people were living just south of the Red River and completely within the present state of Texas.... but they thought they were in Miller County, Arkansas Territory. It was not until 1841 that a new survey revealed the error and the treaty line between Texas and Louisiana and Texas and Arkansas was marked properly on the ground. The area of present day Miller County, Arkansas has only a small 4 to 5 mile wide stripe of land that was in the original area of old Miller Co.. Texas also had a Greer Co. till Oklahoma took it away from them. It functioned as a county for ten years with representatives to Austin. but in 1890 the government refused to acknowledge Greer Co. thus putting Greer Co. in Oklahoma. For the period 1886-1896 people living in Greer Co., Texas/Oklahoma may have left marks in both states. I thought this might be of interest to those of us doing research in Texas. "Let's keep Genealogy free on the Internet" Lesley lesley@eznet.net Batavia, New York. Used to be Cleburne, Texas (Johnson County) http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html Lesley's Family Tree: census's, births, deaths, marriages, cemetery's,churches,will Index, Surnames I'm researching ( Adams, Baird, Barnett, Brumley, DeMars, Fitzgerald, Lammendola, Lang , Lassiter, Macaluso,McGrath, Pallidino,Stone and more.)