This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0d.2ADE/1439.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Some more thoughts... Many, many, MANY South Georgians sought economic opportunity in South Florida in that era... and as they did, there were so many of them there they tended to continue to socialize with family and friends from South Georgia. The era from 1926 till 1942 or so wasn't as favorable because first the Florida Boom burst, then came the Great Depression on its heels... but there still may have been better opportunities in South Florida than in South Georgia. If nothing else... bootlegging during Prohibition was pervasive enough in South Florida to help stimulate the whole economy there to some degree... <G> Also, roads and railroads had been and were being opened up into South Florida, and transit back and forth to South Georgia became almost casual by comparison with earlier eras when it was often necessary or at least pretty much preferable to take ship. By pure accident I found land ownership records of great uncles that I thought never left South Georgia, in Broward County, Florida. Who knows why their time there was never mentioned to me...? No, I'm not implying that they were involved in bootlegging, because if they had been that would probably have been mentioned. I know of several distant relatives who were reputed to have been involved in one way or another, including one who apparently actually crewed smuggling vessels. But not these guys...