In a message dated 4/29/00 8:23:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Subject: Re: re:trails From: "ken robinson" <[email protected]> >> There are many persons that have researched the trails west from the east and these travelers have to start from somewhere. The Oregon Train just did not spring up and say 'Here I Am Use me' so below is one of the many URLs that I have to offer this list. I have one that has all the stops listed and will find it and send it along for the lister that asked for the third stop on the Oregon Trail. I enjoy helping out others in this history of our country in it's beginning. I have become an avid history buff and my research sometimes suffers for that fact. I have a gr grandfather from Norway that went west from IN but do not know how he traveled or what trail he used. I have not found his surname listed in any of the lists that traveled west but he wound up in ID. Nez Perce Co. If anyone ever runs across the name of Olef/Oleff Smit/Smith Widvey that is my gr grand father and I am peiceing together a story and a part of that is that he took some of his children with him and left one that I know of in IN when he left. That one was my grandmother. Did not mean to get off on a tangent. Enjoy the site. Beej MIGRATION PATTERNS FROM VIRGINIA http://home.hiwaay.net/~bobdf/migrations.html