This same person offered a portion of these books on another list and I received them all. Some are mentioned here that were not listed on the other list that was a surname list. I was not unhappy with his response in sending out what I have received. I certainly will double check what I have and then write Jack for those I don't have as my ancestors originated in this area where these books are from. I found and old map with these counties listed in them as Tidewater VA Families is concered with the area of Va north of the James River and east of the Fall Line ( these counties are all listed and those mentioned in Jacks mailing are of those counties) This is an area that was the early home of many families who migrated South and West in America. Many of these counties are also known as 'burned record counties' whose early records were distroyed either in Rev War or Civil Wars. Beej PS I put the URL on my paper and it is no longer available when I tried to access the map again. It is a rootsweb URL so don't know what happened as to why it is no longer available.. In a message dated 12/18/05 6:00:37 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Heine" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 2:21 PM Subject: [ILMCDONO] Books > Since it is the Christmas Season and I was born and raised in McDonough County. I would like to offer any or all of the following books I have on my computer to anyone who wants them before I transfer all of them to cds. They are broken down into sections of 30 to 50 pages and are in PDF format. Your server must let you handle 50 page downloads, if you can handle more let me know and will send more. I will send them as an attachment. > Jack (http://siggiez.com/countdownz/ch/index2.cgi)