In a message dated 7/3/01 2:43:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Thankyou for the suggestion. I will check it out, but I do know my Packard's > came to Mass. in the 1600's then slowly migrated West. I don't know why > they > chose Franklin County, New York to go to, but they ended up in Michigan > from > there by 1863. I have a gap from 1845 to 1863 that I can not find my David > Packard. > > I have a CLOSSEN family that migrated to Michigan in the same time period. Also another family (DUNN) from a different county (Steuben), same time, moved to Michigan in the 1850s. Anyone know about migration patterns? Why Michigan from New York at that particular time? Do we have a cluster pattern we could follow to see if groups of families settled together in the new state, maybe because they were relatives or neighbors in Franklin county? Good possibilities here. Does anyone know more? Pat Busbice