Although many records are destroyed Nashville sometimes has duplicate or different records which you should look into. Taxes, petitions, etc. often contain names. Also, if you ever want to sell the land you will find that they sometimes went back and had to rerecord. I was working a burned county and found where my ancestors had gone back 20+ years later to rerecord just the data I needed. Of course, this only works in the right time frame, but you never know if you don't research all the deeds after the fire. Eleanor Hdscondo@aol.com wrote: > > Mary Ann. > > I was told that many of the Hancock County records were destroyed in a fire > many years ago. This makes it very difficult to verify what we think we > know. I see you are an Anderson. Do you have any info on Morgan Anderson., > my GGGGrandfather? He lived in that area and all the paper trail I need > probably burned up in that same fire. Linda Anderson-Quinonez > > > ==== VALEE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list send your message to <VALEE-L-request@rootsweb.com> > for individual list messages; <VALEE-D-request@rootsweb.com> for digest messages. > Then put the word unsubscribe in the subject line and send your message. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >