All of WV and some parts of KY were part of VA before the Civil War. In fact, you could say that everything west of the Alleghenies was once considered VA. Go to: http://www.wvculture.org/HISTORY/wvcounties.html for a background on WV counties. When I looked at that, I saw that Greenbrier was formed from Montgomery and Botetourt, which are today in southwestern Virginia, several hundred miles from Shenandoah and Frederick Cos. --- creigmy@swbell.net wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: myers > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Hi2.2ACIB/6284.2.1.1.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Not being familiar with the area....Where does > Greenbriar Co fit into the lndscape? and it was a > part of VA before being WVA. cm > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MYERS > ********* > Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry MYERS > Message Board are gatewayed to this Mailing List. > Remember that the author of gatewayed messages may > not be a list subscriber so please reply to > gatewayed messages by clicking on the link and > replying on the board. > ************ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to MYERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > Deborah M.S. Brown __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com