This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jUB.2ACI/1103.2 Message Board Post: The occupation and interests of your ancestor would be your biggest clue. Preachers moved to spead the Gospel. Loggers moved to areas of virgin timber. Farmers moved to find cheap rich acreage. Millers and industrialists moved to locations where they could gain water rights on a stream for power. Hunters, trappers, and fishermen moved where game was more plentiful. Settlers tended to move with their siblings, or wife's family, or their church friends, but tried to get people to move with them who possessed needed skills. Anne