I am new to the list and it may be that everyone on this list has the following sites, but they have been very helpful to me. Marlene > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~south1/trails1.htm > >The Avery Trace > >This site describes the Avery Trace, also known as the North Carolina Road, >which went from NC through north TN to the Cumberland settlements. There is >a good description of it and a link to a nice map of the old road. > >http://www.wwns.com/clay/tourism/avery/avery.html > >The Great Warrior Path from East Tennessee to Southwest Virginia > >A nice description of this road, which some of the earliest settlers >used. > >http://www.tngenweb.usit.com/warpath.htm > >Transportation in Early Middle Tennessee > >This article mentions a number of the early roads and something about the >early settlement of the area. > >http://www.tngenweb.usit.com/sumner/mdtntran.htm > >Ohio Migration Routes: > >This site is a map site of several of the land migration routes >through Ohio...the northern ones are a little north for most of our >southern migrations, but the southern ones were often used by people going >into KY and places south... > >http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/Gwen/migration.htm > >Migration Routes from Pennsylvania to Virginia > >This site seems to be a collection of messages from a mail list >discussing ancestral movements, mainly of Palantine Germans, but also Scots >Irish...it discusses both the How and Why their folks >moved on. > >http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/genes/migrate.htm > >Old Roads in North Arkansas > >This is an article about early roads in north Arkansas, If you have >ancestors who traveled this way, check it out. > >http://idt.net/~jfultz19/military.htm > > > > >