Dear Beej and Jim, and Cousins, Thanks for your additional comments, and also for your previous comments as well on the DNA subject. I wish I could watch the history channel, but I'm too poor to subscribe to TV here. Instead, spend all my time online and my money on books and computer stuff! Beej, I have a Burton file to send you which includes a couple of marriage records, some census information and some of the Kentucky land grants information that I copied at Ancestry.com before they started making it so difficult to copy their information. The information is basic, but may bring a different slant on your search. I'm pretty sure your Burtons followed the same paths out of SW Virginia into Kentucky in ways that mirror many of the other list members' ancestors migrations. My Watts and Markham-Marcum families moved into Wayne County, KY, and moved back and forth across the Kentucky-Tennessee border before moving to Illinois and then Missouri. There are indications from the names of people around your George Burton on the Jefferson County census suggesting that the SW Virginia/NW North Carolina locale is probably correct. I still mean to put this up on a page at the website so that people can see the need for accurate census interpretation is very great. Many of the names are misinterepreted, and one nearby your George is a Robert Livington which I think could be Pennington. I have more work to do to put it at the website, but I want you to have this information before your trip. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn