--WebTV-Mail-12901-10372 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit As soon as I sent that message, I realized I hadn't indicated a time period!! I'm trying to track some ancestors BACK from MS and AL, and I can't find them in GA or SC. All of them were in MS and AL ca 1830/1840. I want to know the trail that would have gone from what is today VA and/or NC through TN to AL to MS, so that I can see what counties I should check. ************************************ Please visit Rockett's Genealogy Web, a recommended website of The History Channel http://www.kayrockett.com ************************************ --WebTV-Mail-12901-10372 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-1.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.97) by postoffice-243.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by mailsorter-101-1.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id MAA10543 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA17505; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:47:47 +0000 Old-To: [email protected] From: Harold Miller <[email protected]> Subject: Alternate routes across the south Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1980 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] >From: [email protected] (Kay Rockett) >Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 14:12:54 -0400 (EDT) >I have several ancestors who didn't take the "usual" route through SC, >GA, AL, and MS, etc. What were some of the other routes they might have >taken, going from VA or NC towards AL and MS? First of all - can you give some dates? Also, remember that at one time Tennessee was North Carolina, so were they coming from what is today NC or what is today TN? A lot of the families coming out of the Shenandoah Valley of VA - and also from the area of Patrick Co VA - ended up in Tennessee. Once they were there - it was easy to use the river. This would be 1815-1820 - to settle St Claire Co AL....Morgan Co. Just look at the Tennessee river, many of the people in Knoxville TN area used it to move to AL. Maybe with some dates, I can help you more. Mary [email protected] ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from the list, send a message to [email protected] if you are subscribed to the list, or [email protected] if you are subscribed to the digest. In the body of your message put only the word unsubscribe --WebTV-Mail-12901-10372--