Would love to hear your speaker. My great grandfather, David S. Higginbotham came to Houston County in the late 1830s, but he was from a family who crossed the mountains with George Washington to survey the area and stayed along the Ohio River. I need to search for them. Sue Scott Fitzgerald wrote: >EARLY MIGRATION ROUTES TO BE FOCUS OF GENEALOGY MEETING > > The East Texas Genealogical Society and the Anderson County >Genealogical Society will present a special program Saturday, August 2, at >1:30 pm, in Palestine at the Public Library, 1101 Cedar Street. The meeting >is free and anyone interested in family research is invited to attend. >Pre-registration is not required. > The Appalachian Mountains and hostile Indians were the primary >barriers that blocked migration and influenced the establishment of early >wagon roads. By locating these migration routes and reversing the paths, >researchers can determine the most likely original location of their >ancestors. Guest speaker, Don Raney, will use maps to locate primary >overland migration routes used by pioneers from colonial settlements in New >England, Virginia and South Carolina between 1700 and 1815. > Mr. Raney is a sixth generation Texan who has been an active >genealogist for over twenty-five years. He currently teaches Beginner & >Intermediate Genealogy courses at Richland College. He is a past Director of >the Dallas Genealogy Society and GENTECH and a life member of the San >Jacinto Descendants. He has been a speaker at numerous conferences and >society meetings thought out the state. > For more information, call Jane at 903-894-6027 or Scott at >903-592-6576 ([email protected]). > > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >