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.

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Hidden Truths – Part 2

Posted on by aallord

Finding hidden truths also means finding hidden treasures. Both are reasons I consider myself a family historian rather than a genealogist. In Hidden Truths – Part 1 I discussed the confusion with Deerbrook, Langlade County, Wisconsin. Concentrating on here I feel the hidden truth is something yet to be revealed. Too much of this history…

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Hidden Truths – Part 1

Posted on by aallord

People I start with introducing the people I discovered so many hidden truths, even I was surprised by stories of people left out of history because of where they came from and how it impacted ancestors in my family tree much later in time than I first imagined possible. Although we all heard stories and…

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