Pam wrote: I'm researching the Winn, White and Atkins family of Mecklenburg, Virginia and not getting very far. Wondering if there is anyone else researching these same families? Pam Suggestion: Go to _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) Look for the link on the lower right side for the FHL Catalog. Do a place search. See when Mecklenburg Co. was formed and what the parent county was. I believe it was formed from Lunenburg Co., which I believe was formed from Brunswick Co. Furthermore, I find my folks in Granville Co., NC (colonial era and beyond) hopped across the state line from time to time to conduct business or to visit family or to acquire land, and you may find your folks in that area!!! According to NC genealogists, few North Carolinians came in by ship, as the barrier islands prevented ships from having a safe landing. (I hope you have some maps.) North Carolinians, in many cases, came from Virginia (or Maryland) and later from everywhere, including Pennsylvania. In other words, you may have to do what some genealogists call *a radial search*--you have to radiate out from Mecklenburg. I was advised early in my genealogical hobby to search for Virginians in EVERY county. I thought the lecturer was nuts--until I started looking for my colonial familes!!! Landon C. Bell wrote a fair number of books on old Lunenburg Co. [do an author search on the FHL catalog] and some of his works may have been filmed--or the books may be in a library near you. Note the name of his books, and ask your librarian about interlibrary loan--if you cannot easily borrow the film through your LDS family history center. I am assuming you are referring to colonial families. If they are of later date, then you will have to use censuses as well as tax lists, court records, deeds [I love deeds--I find more family relationships in deeds], probates, family histories. Also look in counties beyond Mecklenburg--as several counties were formed from that area. Good luck!!! Genealogists have to really stretch their thinking ability and remember that not only did people migrate but the county boundaries changed (and in Virginia and its sister state Kentucky and its neighbor North Carolina this was always happening. Don't even talk about South Carolina where the names were always changing and where colonial records seem to be almost non-existent.) E.W.Wallace