I'd like to run this by everyone. It's been bothering me for a long time that the Galloways and other families from the Jackson-Transylvania Co, NC area seemed to move around so much. Considering this was (and in some instances still is) a very rural, remote and mountainous area, it must have been a gigantic undertaking to move an entire family. Yet many times on census records you find children born just a year or two apart listed as being born in different states, usually NC, SC or Ga. And we frequently find children of the same family giving different places of birth for their parents, again, usually NC, SC or Ga. Something occured to me last night just as I was going to sleep, and I wonder if theory might help explain this. The "Walton War", if memory serves me right, went on from about 1790 - 1808 and involved the land that Jackson and Transylvania Cos. are now in. At different times, this area was claimed by NC, SC and Ga. I believe there were about 80 - 100 white families living in this area at the time who were effected by it. Is it possible that these families were already in this area during this period and did not move, yet were listed as living in different states, depending on the time frame? As confusing as this must have been, maybe they were not sure which state they were living in when. Theoretically, if you were living in the same house and never moved, you could have lived in NC, SC or Georgia at different times while this dispute was going on. Anyone have thoughts on this? Shawna Shawna's Genealogy Page, http://www.concentric.net/~Shahall