>Reply-To: "ronney" <pronney@sprynet.com> >From: "ronney" <pronney@sprynet.com> >To: "Jim & Donna Bowman" <bowman2@midwest.net> >Subject: Re: Samuel Bowman >Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:08:37 -0700 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > >Dear Jim and Donna, > >Being on the mailing list I caught your response to the Bowman question. >The part below, I have more of an interest in. > >My ancestors reportedly came from the Shenendoah Valley area to Licking, But >from what I have found they came via Pennsylvania. Is that part of the >route? Do you know more, or can you refer me to a source? > >Patty in So Cal >Belt, Park, McMillen, Wilson, Showman (and maybe some others I don't know of >yet!) >PLUS Renssalear Tuttle a different line > >> >>As you stated--many of the settlers of the Praire and Licking Townships of >>Crawford Co. Il. came from the Shenendoah Valley via the Licking Co. Oh. >>area, then to Ill., and appeared to migrate together, and I feel this to be >>the area to search for their ancestors. >> >>Again, Thank You >> >>Jim >> >> >>==== OHLICKIN Mailing List ==== >>OHLICKIN email and website services are volunteered by >><http://www.rootsweb.com/>Rootsweb, >><http://www.usgenweb.org/oh/>OHGenWeb and >><http://www.usgenweb.org/>US GenWeb. >> >>============================== >>Search more than 274 MILLION NAMES and find your ancestors at Ancestry.com! >>Get started today at http://www.ancestry.com/rootswebtext.asp >> Hello Ronney: I have found Everton's "Handy Book For Genelogists) to be most helpful. It is available at nearly any Genealogy Library, or can be purchased from Everton Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 368, Logan, Utah 84321. It has a very informative section about migration trails. One of the heavily used trails for the Midwest was The National Trail from Baltimore, Md. to St. Louis, Mo. It came through Somerset, Fayette, and Washington Co. Pa.,---through Muskingham,Licking, etc. in Ohio,----through central In. and S.Central Ill. Jim