> Is anyone on this list, aware of a pattern of migration for these, or > "any other", family's from the Snyder / Union County area, that went > from here, to Tennessee, to the Schuyler / Hancock / Cass county area > of Illinois? I find it quite a coincidence, that these names appear > in both of these areas together, during various periods of time. "America's Historic Trails" by J. Kingston Pierce. "Many Europeans who had hoped to find their destiny in Pennsvlvania, ... didn't stay there long enough to witness this growth. Some were discouraged from settling by high land prices. Others were pushed out by ........... mounting discrimination against non-English newcomers ..... Folks started to look south, to the wild reaches of Maryland and Virginias for new and cheaper land................. The route that these pioneers took - the future Great Wagon Road - led them west from Philadelphia through the Pennsylvania towns of Lancaster, York, and Gettysburg. It then headed south across the Maryland panhandle and skirted the eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains all the way through western Virginia, following part of an ancient Indian trail call the Great Warpath......................" At about what is now Roanoke, those going west would have left the Great Wagon Trail and followed the Wilderness Road which took them southwest throughthe Cumberland Gap in southern KY. The route can be traced in present times by following "Interstate 81 south through western Virginia, then head west from Abingdon along U. S. Route 58 to the Cumberland Gap. In Kentucky, sites along the old trail are accessible from U. S. Route 25 and Interstate 75." The main reason for most of the western migration prior to the gold rush was for land, cheap land and lots of it. From KY, many of these pioneers migrated into OH, IN and IL. I have never seen any information regarding a trail that went straight west from PA to OH, etc., however, it would seem likely that after the civil war, at least, some might have moved from western PA into OH without going south. Possibly using the Ohio River. If anyone has any information on that, I would be very interested. Nancy Pascal "God plus one is always [email protected] a majority!" <http://www.gate.net/~pascalfl/>