[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] County name changes

[Erick Krueger]

If you're researching in the USA, then there are animated county formation
maps available online, that go year by year and explain how counties
formed/changed.

Easiest way is to google search the state name and "county formation map".

A few examples:
Alabama:   http://gordonbush.com/genealogy/maps/AL_formation_maps.htm
North Carolina:  http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nc/state2/amap/nccf.html
Tennessee:  http://tngenweb.org/maps/county-ani/tn-maps/tn-cf.html
and so on.

Looks like a lot of these took data from AniMap, which is available here
for sale:
http://goldbug.com/animap/


Hope that helps,

Erick



On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Rose Ingram <roseingram at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Beth
>
> Have your sister check her Library for the book  "Map Guide to the U.S.
> Federal censuses, 1790-1920" by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide.
>
> The Family History Center I use has this book which I found useful for
> tracking the Ingram ancestors.  Grant you it just covers the time of the
> census (every 10 years).  But it does show what counties were created each
> year or blended with other counties.
>
> I don't remember all the details as it has been about 15 years since I
> used it.
>
> Rose Ingram
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Beth Burke
>   To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
>   Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 1:17 PM
>   Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] County name changes
>
>
>   My sister is a Government Information & Data Services Librarian at
> Western
>   Illinois University, and she needs help with something that I have not
> come
>   across in my genealogy research.  I'm hoping one of you have run across
> this
>   situation because it could conceivably happen when we are doing research.
>   Here's her dilemma:
>
>
>
>   "I am writing a review of the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries web
> site
>   and I need some ideas to evaluate it. For example, if someone wanted to
> know
>   where a particular county was at a particular time period..Are there
> records
>   for people who lived in a county that you cannot find because the county
> no
>   longer exists? If so, can you please send me some names of those counties
>   with their states?"
>
>
>
>   As I said, I have not run across this in any of my genealogy research,
> but
>   maybe some of you have.  Please drop me a line with the country name
> (that
>   no longer exists), the country name that replaced it,  and the state
> where
>   all of this occurred.
>
>
>
>   As always thanks for any assistance you can provide.
>
>
>
>   Beth Burke
>
>   Verona, WI
>
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