Just an observation, although I'm certainly no expert on this matter. Some of the Burke Countians who settled in GA may have been fallout from migrations to points farther west. My ancestors, for instance, travelled from western NC (Burke, Haywood) through GA on their way to Wright Co., MO. They stayed long enough in Habersham Co., GA to appear on the 1850 census and for my gr-grandfather to be born there in 1851. I suspect this southern route to the west was to avoid having to travel over the mountains. Ruth Ann Researching Craig, Connolly, Mingus, Stillwell in western NC In a message dated 2/20/2004 10:16:48 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Fellow researchers and Carolinian kinsmen, I've been researching branches of my family tree and it appears that there was a lot of migration from Burke County and the surrounding counties to Northern Georgia. In particular, two Georgia counties (Habersham and White) seem to be full of Burke County emigrants who relocated between 1830 and 1860.