Irene, In the case of Robert C. Myers, I am pretty sure that it was a move from one location to another. He and Jennie married in Newton County in 1897. His job is listed as a Locomotive Engineer in 1900; also listed is that they were renting a house, so there was no real estate to bind them to this location. Jennie's family were all from Kirbyville, so it is reasonable that they moved there, she is buried there dying in 1931. In some other cases, yes, the counties were revamped. People may never have moved from their original homestead but the boundaries did. Another factor is that a lot of the census takers were not familiar with the area and may have overlapped the boundary, in this case you could find individual's listed in two counties at the same time. Most of your dividing lines were usually a creek, or river, but in some instances there was nothing to let them know where to stop, usually they asked as they went if they did not have good maps of the area, especially in the early times. We are more in luck in East Texas, because most of the census takers were local citizens, that not only knew the people but the area very well. I hope this helps. Yolanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "walt" <walt@inu.net> To: <TXJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:23 AM Subject: Re: [TXJASPER] Re: Where is Kirbyville in 1910 Census? > Yolanda: Could you explain the reason why Robert C. Myers and family > were listed in in Newton Co. in 1900 ;and in Jasper Co. in 1910? > Did they move? Did the county line move? Did the census taker not know > where the line was? Could you, please, discuss this problem. Sometimes I > find towns or communities that move or migrate within a few miles of > were they were, but across a county line? Thank You > Irene HOLMES WALTON > > > ypmiller50@earthlink.net wrote: > > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > Classification: Query > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AkB.2ACE/325.1 > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > Would that be Robert C. Myers, and his wife Jennie Ruth Syler? If so they are listed in Precinct 3, #184-195 in 1910 in Jasper County and in 1900 they are listed in Newton County in Precinct 8, #34-34. > > Hope this helps, > > Yolanda > > ypmiller50@earthlink.net > > > > ============================== > > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

Yolanda: Many Thanks for taking time to answer this question. I think in some of my cases, the county divided or changed county lines somehow.(in other areas of the state) Farmers who owned their homes were not so inclined to move. Irene HOLMES WALTON Nacogdoches, TX Yolanda Miller wrote: > > Irene, > In the case of Robert C. Myers, I am pretty sure that it was a move from one > location to another. He and Jennie married in Newton County in 1897. His > job is listed as a Locomotive Engineer in 1900; also listed is that they > were renting a house, so there was no real estate to bind them to this > location. Jennie's family were all from Kirbyville, so it is reasonable that > they moved there, she is buried there dying in 1931. > In some other cases, yes, the counties were revamped. People may never have > moved from their original homestead but the boundaries did. Another factor > is that a lot of the census takers were not familiar with the area and may > have overlapped the boundary, in this case you could find individual's > listed in two counties at the same time. Most of your dividing lines were > usually a creek, or river, but in some instances there was nothing to let > them know where to stop, usually they asked as they went if they did not > have good maps of the area, especially in the early times. > We are more in luck in East Texas, because most of the census takers were > local citizens, that not only knew the people but the area very well. > I hope this helps. > Yolanda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "walt" <walt@inu.net> > To: <TXJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:23 AM > Subject: Re: [TXJASPER] Re: Where is Kirbyville in 1910 Census? > > > Yolanda: Could you explain the reason why Robert C. Myers and family > > were listed in in Newton Co. in 1900 ;and in Jasper Co. in 1910? > > Did they move? Did the county line move? Did the census taker not know > > where the line was? Could you, please, discuss this problem. Sometimes I > > find towns or communities that move or migrate within a few miles of > > were they were, but across a county line? Thank You > > Irene HOLMES WALTON > > > > > > ypmiller50@earthlink.net wrote: > > > > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > > > Classification: Query > > > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AkB.2ACE/325.1 > > > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > > > Would that be Robert C. Myers, and his wife Jennie Ruth Syler? If so > they are listed in Precinct 3, #184-195 in 1910 in Jasper County and in 1900 > they are listed in Newton County in Precinct 8, #34-34. > > > Hope this helps, > > > Yolanda > > > ypmiller50@earthlink.net > > > > > > ============================== > > > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > > > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > > > ============================== > > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog