Can't answer your question right now, on my way to Michigan, but, when you come to Ohio, try to make time to tour the Hocking Hills which is a state park (actually several different sites) they have a lodge or you can stay nearby in Logan or Nelsonville or even in Athens. The area is very beautiful and provides ideal hiking opportunites. There is a state lodge and cabins can be rented. If you have to do research in Hocking or Athens Counties, you might consider staying in the Hocking Hills for your trip. So glad you are looking forward to coming to our beautiful state. In my opinion, southeastern Ohio is the most beautiful of all. Susan Susan Chere' Hartzband susnchg@hotmail.com ----Original Message Follows---- From: SGates1949@aol.com Reply-To: OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com To: OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OHGALLIA-L] Hocking Valley, Marietta and Gallipolis Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:57:22 EDT Thank you very much to all who answered me on the Rootsweb list as well as privately. I am now so eager to go to Ohio on my next trip "home" (not since 1968, though) to Charleston, WV, I am just thrilled with anticipation. I am going to try to learn more about my Rand ancestors who came from Worcester, MA by way of Rutland and Bennington, VT to Hocking Valley at almost the same time my Gates ancestors came from CT to Marietta. Their next generation married each other in Charleston during the War Between the States. I am wondering if Hocking Valley was part of Washington County about 1800? If it was, as I believe, then it would seem I can still do the research through Washington County sources, right? Isn't it so, that if a place was in a county when one's ancestors were there, one would not search in a new county name if they had already left there before the new county was formed? This is a good genealogical question and it has plagued me with the Olde Virginia counties, too, which were much changed and added to between 1776 and 1850, with all the southern and westward movement. Sharon Lee Gates b 9/18/1949 Charleston, Kanawha, WV now of Apopka, FL ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== If you want to unsubscribe to the list, send an email to OHGALLIA-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe in the text of the email.