Some of your questions can be answered by your researching in the Family History Library Catalog on _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) and doing a PLACE search in the catalog. I used these search terms: kentucky [don't add county or your search will be cancelled] and then virginia I cut and pasted this but it probably will be scrambled. So I will type it out: Formed in 1776 from Fincastle County. It became extinct in 1780 when it was divided into Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln.counties which are all in the State of Kentucky. Then the URL says as Reference: See Fincastle. There is a CD-ROM of Kentucky Land Grants, but I do not recall who the issuer was. Perhaps you can stumble on that info by doing a PLACE search of Kentucky and then go down the list of topics to land records. The FH Library in Salt Lake City has a good many CD-ROMs. Talk to your librarian about interlibrary loan. Most genealogical libraries do not allow their books to circulate, but some Universities and colleges will. I suggest you do an AUTHOR search for Michael L. Cook and his wife [now widow] Bettie Cummings Cook, who abstracted/transcribed a good many early records of Kentucky when it was still under the jurisdiction of Virginia. The book[s] called Kentucky Court of Appeals may be of interest to you, if you had family who were early in Kentucky. Ask your librarian also where you can find a library which subscribes to the online genealogical database called HeritageQuest. You may have to approach a library adjacent to the county in which you live to see if you can pay an *annual fee* so that you may access HeritageQuest, a subscription service available, I understand, only to libraries. There is a book entitled Boonesborough, which, of course is in Madison Co., KY. Good luck in your searches. Also on the FHL website is a guide to doing research in Kentucky. It may list some sources which you had not thought about--tax records, vital records [some were kept in KY in 1853 until just before the Civil War], court order books, probates, etc. I personally have solved a good many mysteries by using deeds. E.W.Wallace with lots of Kentucky folks who came from VA and NC [oh, yes, and one or two from Pennsylvania] **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)