Dear Listers,
I have been trying to learn where an ancestor was born. According to the 1850 Wilcox County Fed. Census, he was 50 years old and born in GA. After going through GA census indices for 1790 & 1800, I had no better idea of where to look. Then, I noticed a map that shows that GA covered northern and central AL & MS, as well as its current area, until the early 1800's. This ancestor's children were born in AL, according to the same census, with the first-born claiming to be 27 in 1850. After assuming that the father was born in current-day GA, I am beginning to wonder if he was actually born in AL! By the time of the 1850 census, AL and GA were within the same boundaries as they are today. Have any of you come across something similar to this? Would someone born in 1798's "GA" say he was born in GA on the 1850 census even if the place he was born in in 1798 was within AL lines in 1850? How on earth do I figure out where to look for this family?!