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/UEB.2ACE/415.1.2 Message Board Post: I visited the Federal Archives and viewed census records Saturday and it turns out the W Vien River is actually W Ken River (standing for West of the Kennebec River). Those who may have worked on the database posted on Ancestry.com read the K in Kennebec as a Vi, hence the W Ken River became W Vien River.