With so many early counties in the colonies having been split to form new counties, my question is this: How should the county of birth/death be recorded for an individual in one of these split counties? For example, Orange Co., Virginia was formed from a earlier county, then split to form Culpeper county and so on ----- so if an individual was born in Orange county but that area is now a part of Culpeper county do you show Orange co. as the birth county, or Culpeper county, or some combination designation like Orange (later Culpeper) Co., Virginia? Which is the best approach? And what if someone has given a county of birth/death that is out of the time frame of the formation of that county? I.E. a person is shown as being born in Culpeper county when his date of birth was actually before the formation of Culpeper county? Anthony CASH, DAVIS, LEDBETTER, WALTON