Ethel: Yes. A court document may refer to anyone below the age of majority as an "infant." When I first saw an example of that, it looked very odd to me too. Ken -----Original Message----- >From: "Ethel J. Smith" <etheljs@earthlink.net> >Sent: Dec 15, 2007 11:39 AM >To: valouisa@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VALOUISA] VALOUISA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 132 > >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. >> > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VALOUISA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message J. K. Brandau www.murderatgreensprings.com