After that, you're all on your own, but only until one of you comes to our rescue: Please email your 1836 Civil District Maps (or a detailed description of where I went wrong) to Giles County Coordinator Carole Hammett at Giles@TNGenWeb.Org. It does not need to be a "pretty" map: Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and a map with the district boundary lines in the right places would be beautiful to behold (besides which, Ye Little Old Mapmaker Fred Smoot, Coordinator of TNGenWeb's Maps Our Ancestors Followed, has offered to "purty it up" for us once he knows where the boundary lines go.*
* See Giles County TNGenWeb's own Maps Our Ancestors Followed for all kinds of nifty maps that Fred's already fixed up for us. And, for an example of what he can do for us once he's been given the proper boundary lines, see also the 1836 Bedford County, TN Civil District Map he fixed up for Bedford County, TNGenWeb.Fred also reminds us that County Civil Districts were required by law to have roughly equal populations. As the years went by, the boundaries of the districts changed in order to satisfy this legal requirement. This means that using later district maps to recreate the boundaries won't work. For example, by 1848, there was an 18th district, which changed the boundaries of Districts No. 4,5 and 6; and in 1870, the boundaries of District No. 17 and surrounding Districts 10, 11, 15 and 16 would have changed when the Cornersville-Robertson's Fork folks were annexed to Marshall County.
P.S. From Carole: I also forgot to add Maury County's name to the north and Lawrence County's to the east (it's all the fault of those pesky ridges and changed place names, of course. In fact, they practically caused me to lose my mind!).