Ginny writes of Chalkley's book which has been digitized and is online. I am adding my two cents' worth. Lyman Chalkley's three volumes of The Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Subtitlle: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745-1800 can be more easily accessed with this URL _www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/) I have been warned that 1) these are abstracts only of the court records - should be followed up with reading filmed originals, if at all possible 2) Chalkley left out a lot of the Germans who were in Augusta Co. and so on (I have not verified that, as my Pennsylvania German somehow got to North Carolina to meet Daniel Boone.well before 1775.) However, nearly all of us experienced genealogists begin searching in books/or online to get an idea whether our search of further records may prove more fruitful. Most books, Chalkley's included, have indexes, which speed our research. After the reader accesses the first screen in Vol. I, go to the second screen. At the bottom of the second screen, there is a link to the index for Vol. I. There is NOT an every-name index but a *grouping*, alphabetically arranged by surname. Infrequently, one will find linkages of one person to another, but not often. So--use with caution. Each volume in the online version of Chalkley is indexed separately. As indicated in the title, this is a good beginning research source to spot your Scotch-Irish people from Pennsylvania. (Do not chew me out for not using the politically correct hyphenated Scots-Irish [Protestants for the most part], as one e-mail correspondent did. I had to reply that was Chalkey's title, and I was only giving the correct citation. A lot of these Scots-Irish families, or their descendants, then trekked to Western North Carolina and to Kentucky also.) I have been told that in its early days, Augusta Co. encompassed all of what is now West Virginia. Old maps of Augusta's county's western boundary are not shown--I guess it went to wherever it would encounter unfriendly natives!!! An awful lot of persons whose surname starts with Mc are indexed here!!! Including my ancestress Agnes McCord, who is found later in Albemarle Co., now the wife of a Harris, and then spent the rest of her life in Madison Co., KY. E.W.Wallace ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com