It may well not answer all your questions, but there are a series of maps with some verbiage that show how the boundary between New York and Vermont changed over time on the Washington Co., NY site on USGenWeb: _http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/) Nancy >OK will try this approach. I have recieved the names of lots of JONES in VT.. >IS THERE NO ONE else researching this line ie name. > >2. Can anyone tell me where boundaries changed and when for looking for >reasons why descrepencies in files??? > >SusiCP