At 07:59 AM 7/5/99 EDT, you wrote: >I would love to have input on this one......I have an ancestor who lived his >entire life in Tyler County (except for his stint and subsequent death in the >Civil War).....my question is........If he was born in 1831, should I be >looking in Monongalia (concerning his parentage) rather than Tyler County >records? (I am going to Tyler in two weeks ..) > >Thanks ! Nancy Pratt > > >==== WVA Mailing List ==== >To keep free access to genealogical data, consider sending a donation to RootsWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >-snip--- >NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, computer questions, political announcements, current events, personal messages,flames, religious messages etc. (in other words - Spam) is NOT ALLOWED and >will be grounds for removal and exclusion from this mailing list. Spam crashes our servers and we have to take a stand. >---snip--- > > Nancy, Since Tyler County was founded in 1814, you might be able to find your ancestor as a nine-year old on an 1840 Tyler Co. census. Our PA 1840 census is indexed; I suppose the WV census is also. Irene