Counties

There are 3141 active counties, 947 obsolete, and 208 renamed in the United States all dating from the mid-1600s to the year 2000. This is the data found in AniMap.

New Counties

New counties were unorganized, assigned to an organized county for judicial and government purposes. This means until the county is fully organized, records are found here.

Locations

It is known locations did not move throughout history, however, county boundaries did often leaving you searching in the wrong county depending on the date of the event.

Finding Ancestors Connections

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Often we have location information on our ancestors, we have approximate dates these people married and yet we are clueless where they may have met and married. This is the case with my Great Grandparents, William Bentley and Anna Lynn. From the 1900 Town of Neva, Langlade County, Wisconsin census I have a potential year…

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Importance of County Names and Dates

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We often fail to realize when searching for information on our ancestors the importance of dates and county names. The impact of what we are searching for is much greater than most realize. This post discusses why county names are important. For this I will be using La Pointe County, Wisconsin, created on 19 February…

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AniMap Blog Released

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Welcome to the AniMap Blog. When we were creating AniMap 4.0 we always kept our eyes on a much broader picture than great map details and information to document and research your genealogy. We know AniMap is no longer quite as simple as version 3.0.2. Knowing this meant we had to have plans for a…

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