Hope I do not repeat what someone else has sent in, here are my favorite sites: with what has been going on on the east coast - Hurricane Hunter's Photo Album http://members.aol.com/hotelq/index.html (the q as in quit, not as in good) this is done by a man who flew those planes into eye of the hurricane .... Genweb - state sites: many good ones, but here are a couple I use a lot Pulaski County Virginia - line to Wilderness Road Museum with original documents and a map www.rootsweb.com/~vapulask/wrmm/index.htm links to New River Historical Society Sullivan Co Tennessee Genweb page HOW DID THEY GET HERE - with map and text Reginoal and State maps Cumberland Settlement and State of Franklin c1800 roads and early settlements www.rootsweb.com/~varockbr/pntplsnt.htm Rockbridge County Virginia Genweb page Blazing a Wilderness Trail Battle of Point Pleasant - with lists of men there Chalkey's Chronicles Scotch-Irish so many more of the county pages are great, just look in the area where you think your ancestor was located. http://istg.rootsweb.com/ Rootsweb Immigrant ships list - check it now and then as they keep adding www.surnameweb.org/ list of surnames with genforum pages - where others with working on your surname can swap info.....or try www.genforum.com/turney in place of turney - put your surname http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html American Memory Page Federal Writers Project 1936-1946 Part of the WPA - sent out people to interview elderly people in 1936-1946 time frame....great stuff www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online Texas Handbook great place with all kinds of info about Texas www.insolwwb.net/~egerdes/ Ed Gerdes Civil War page this is at the top of my list, if you are researching NW Arkansas, this has Union and CSA units, lots of good stuff....all Arkansas units. Also links to other CW pages www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/revindex.htm battles of Revolutionary War used to have another good one, but could not get in to it tonight www.itd.mps.gov/cwss/ Civil War Soldiers & Sailors basic facts colored troops done by National Park Services www.wwns.com/clay/tourism/avery/avery.html Avery Trace map this I use a lot cause my family migrated along this trail http://members.aol.com/RoadTrails/roadtrai.html Migration - Early American Roads and Trails 16 major early roads - including Oregon Trail This is a must see www.access1.net/lorriev/ Oregon Pioneer Bios http://rosecity.net/tears/trail/map.html Trail of Tears good maps www.ancestry.com/FreeImages.asp?ImageId=322 map of Tennessee Country 1748-1775 Holston, Watauga, Drapers Meadows, etc. www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/5649 Appalachian Quarterly for KY, NC, TN, VA, WVA the address I had for the Ozarks Geneological Society did not work tonight, that was a good site my Mulungeon site did not work tonight - and the rootsweb site I had on Indian Captives did not work my address for the 1828-1900 RailRoad maps did not work, will look at American Memories page again, since I think it linked off of that. I helped me so much because this had the original maps as surveyed for railroads, if you wanted to follow the route an ancestor might have traveled if he was working on building the railroads. I was able to follow thru Texas to Arizona, finding the towns as they were named then where he might have lived, counties, etc. So I want to find this page again. Hope this is some help. Of course, Cindi's page, any of the Genweb pages for states and counties, those are all a first place to look. Mary