This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wd.2ADE/684.1 Message Board Post: This is going to be necessarily vague because I do not *know*. What I did find while researching for a friend surnames including THOMSON and McHUGH . I was led to Robertson Co TX, where I learned that a whole great bunch migrated from Talbot Co GA. My friend has an old photo of Emma Jean McHUGH, on the back written Talbot County 1850. Well. He thought there must have been a Talbot Co. TX. I found bits and pieces, such as - On one database of early Texas marriages, I used keywords thomson mchugh and this is what I got: Texas Marriages, 1851-1900 McHUGH, TIMOTHY m. GRIMES, CORDELIA Date: 25 Jul 1871 County: Robertson COUTER, GEORGE m. THOMSON, L. R. Date: 4 Jul 1871 County: Robertson [COULTER?] .. which got me checking out Robertson Co, where I began learning of these migrations within a generation or maybe two. I run across some surnames mix and match. Since I've found that my POWELL husband is related to a sister in law through some MULLINS that migrated to AR, and his foster mother's LASSETER family also migrated to TX but later, after the civil war, I'm even finding their bunch coming from about the same area of GA! What I'm saying, there seems to have been a pipeline somewhere 1850-1880s, led in one case by an Alexander Thomson. Many of these families from GA had migrated from SC. So as I began, I don't know a detail to help other than this migration period and route - yet, but it could be a clue to finding some lose ends.