Brenda - my husband's Brantners went from coast to coast in the 1800's. My husband's GGrandfather who was born in Washington County in 1820 but moved as a young man to Richland County Ohio got caught up the hype over the California Gold rush and caught a ship to go around Cape Horn in 1849 with other young men from the county. He came back to Ohio and then made another trip to CA overland. After 1850 sometime, he returned to Ohio only to head up a wagon train to Colorado with his brother in 1859 to the gold rush here known as the Rush to the Rockies. Later, some of his children went to Oregon, some to California in the 1920's and some stayed in Colorado. This family branch has stories of wagon trains, stage stations, Indian uprisings, grasshopper plagues and irrigation ditches. Although they came for the gold rush - they rapidly found a place on the bottoms of the Platte River to grow native hay to sell to the others who came seeking - they settled down and raised families. Lauren Brantner Mdre007@aol.com wrote: >Thank-You Nancy for explaining why these families migrated West. If any >families did come I believe before 1846 they would have had to contend with Indian >attacks. Some families who may have migrated in the 1700's probably stopped in >Indiana, Ohio, or went south into Kentucky, Tennessee, some even I believe >went to Georgia and later on into Texas.(Late 1700's or early 1800's) I hope I'm >correct in saying this. Brenda > > >==== MDWASHIN Mailing List ==== >Are your ancestors Pennsylvania Dutch?? Check out the Pennsylvania Dutch Family History site at: >http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/padutch/ > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >. > > >