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Comment by John A. "JACK" Andresen on March 23, 2011 at 2:36pm: I am from Clinton, Iowa, and they had a problem with the town of Lyons , Iowa and the old timers said that the line netween Clinton Ans Lyons was the big tree which is now 13 Ave. North and @nd St. co i use lyons as Lyons twn. as that is what it was called at that time and i made notes as to the changing from 1898 to 1902 it dependecd on who you talked to. so we have a laugh to day.

Comment by Eric Andrist on March 23, 2011 at 2:29pm: Yes, I see what you're saying. It just gets confusing as sometimes a person is born in Hampshire, Virginia, dies in the same place, but it's then called Hampshire, West Virginia. I wonder if it's not better to make it all what we know today, and put in the note of what it was at the time.

Comment by John A. "JACK" Andresen on March 23, 2011 at 2:22pm: What i do is make a note in the note section of your file i got a problems with Hattiesburg, Ms. bef 1910 it was in Jones co. and in the 1910 census it was nowm namesd in Forrest co. Ms. and in my home town Columbus, Ms. it was in Alabama tell the late1890 they moved the line east ward about 7 to 8 miles east so the ten tom river is not the state lineany more as i say i have asked the same question and the local Historian said to list it as per records but place a note sayin g the other I hope this answer your question

Comment by Eric Andrist on March 23, 2011 at 2:02pm: What do you all do about recording counties that were originally in one state, but are currently in another? For instance, I'm coming across records that are in Hampshire, Virginia, which is now part of West Virginia. If I list it as Virginia, it could be confusing if someone doesn't know it's actually now in West Virginia.

Comment by John L Sullivan on March 22, 2011 at 4:54pm: Thank you Dawn, I appreciate the help.

Comment by Dawn Pratt on March 22, 2011 at 4:42pm: John,

I ran into the same issue with my grandma's little brother who died at 11 months in 1928. The cemetery was an old family run cemetery. I had to go through the Catholic Church for burial records for that time since the state of NM didnt keep them until 1932.

I searched through Interment.net and namesinstone.com, neither have a listing at this point of the cemeteries in Broome Co., NY transcribed. I couldnt find anything under Ancestry or FamilySearch.org. NY does appear to have been keeping Birth Certificates that far back. I would try the state for death records and the local church of that area.

There is nothing under FamilySearch.org nor any

Comment by John L Sullivan on March 22, 2011 at 4:29pm: I do not have a death certificate for Luther Bissell, nor an obituary.

Lisa, thank you for the suggestion on the Johnson Hill cemetery.

Comment by Shirley Martys on March 22, 2011 at 4:15pm: Do you have a death certificate? Sometimes they state where the burial occurred. If you have an obit, does it state a funeral home? If they still exist, they may have a record to help you. Our funeral homes here in Nebraska are very helpful with this.

Comment by Lisa Smith on March 22, 2011 at 3:49pm: Mr. Sullivan, There is a cemetery in Lisle, Broome, NY called Johnson Hill Cemetery. I have quite a few Johnsons buried there.