Is there any way to tell the actual date of a chancery case? I know the date on the case number is inaccurate in some of my Dickinson cases, and also, is an infant a baby or just anyone under 21? On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:02 AM, valouisa-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Chancery and relationship indexes (Abercrombie) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:47:51 -0500 > From: "Abercrombie" <jla5@verizon.net> > Subject: [VALOUISA] Chancery and relationship indexes > To: <valouisa@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <001901c83e57$ec29fa30$2f01a8c0@D9C1XCC1> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; > reply-type=original > > Just had a question about a chancery cause with a date much later > than the > principles were living. In 1928 the docket was evidently purged of > unsettled cases. The date on the chancery cases is when the suit > was given > a final decree. In 1928 many of the cases had been on the book for > years and > many times the final decree was the case was dismissed. > In the relationship index "pension" refers to a Revolutionary War > pension. There are not too many of those referenced I don't think. > Please be aware that this index was accumulated over 30 years > and really > just an index to my files but Wayne and I decided it might give a > clue to > some of the researchers on this list. >