!!Thanks Everyone for the information on Travel from the Fingerlakes. It seems my ancestors(John and Susan Hathaway) traveled to Nauvoo, Illinois the summer of 1845 but then came back. I had wondered how long it would take, how they'd travel especially since my grandmother was pregnant and came back to have a baby in Pennsylvania in October. This has been very enlightening. I was thinking it would have taken a couple months but not so. Most of the Hathaway's from Steuben County I have even been looking at as possibly related to my John Hathaway ancestor seemed to have moved to Illinois anyway. Maybe they had someone to stay with when they arrived. Thankyou!!! Heather