Confirming JoAnne's comment, knowledge of the parish serving any ancestor and the "genesis of counties" - origins of boundaries - in which that family resided is absolutely critical to all research worthy of the name.  Without knowing to which courthouses and churches ancestors went and during what years they did so renders research mediocre at best, and silly, at worst. 

For now many more decades than I care to recite I have placed the genesis of the county on every family group sheet, whether that group sheet is on paper or on my puter.  Paul 
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  From: JOANNE HARLEY 
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  Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 9:08 AM
  Subject: [NCBERTIE] VA Parish & County records 



  It surely does help to know where to go for records, but it also helps to
  know how these areas changed over the years.  I made notes of one in
  particular that someone on the list might benefit from.  My ancestors may
  have come into Charles City Co., VA.. so as I followed it, this is what
  happened.


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