okay, this is southern trails, but I found a great webpage to share. http://homepage.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/mfranklin.html almost to the bottom of the page (this is for Franklin Co Ohio - which is where Columbus is located), there is: Ohio Migration Trails. Click on that and see the trails across Ohio used in early times. I am searching for a man born ca 1787 in VA. I think his family might have come out of Patrick Co VA but not sure, they were in Smith Co TN ca 1806, it is easy to figure from that going across KY to Ohio river and into Ohio. So I am following a man born in south who died in Columbus Ohio in 1827. Think this is going to help me on the southern part of the family - who stayed in TN till about 1827 when they went to Illinois, then by 1850s were in Texas. Remember our families went back on forth in early years, a stop in Ohio or southern Indiana or Illinois was not that odd. Scioto trail - would be the way my man probably traveled. (he was coming out of southwest VA, central TN). But there is Zane's Trace across the state - built in 1796-1797 from Wheeling (now West VA) to Limestone, KY on the ohio. Anyone goint into KY from western VA and PA might have used this route. Mary [email protected]