Thanks, Margaret, for the enlightenment about primogenture and intestacy. [have I spelled that correctly?]. My colonial family of Albemarle Co (previously of Louisa Co. and of Hanover Co.).--Christopher Harris & 2nd wife Agnes McCord--packed up with most of their children of the 1st and 2nd marriage of Chris--and removed to Madison Co., KY. Many other Albemarle Co. folks will also be found in that general vicinity, not to mention Fauquier Co. folks, like Kempers (in Garrard Co.), Holtzclaws (in Mercer Co.), Rossers in Mercer Co. and so on. Christopher's eldest son, Dabney Harris, however, went to North Carolina. The early tax lists of Kentucky, as well as the 1787 Census of Virginia, compiled by Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florine S. Love, need to be examined if one has Virginia ancestors. It seems Christopher Harris held personal property in both Albemarle Co., KY and in Madison Co., KY. He died testate in Madison Co., but long after his death, his heirs turned up a piece of property about which they had not known. The purchaser had discovered it, it seems, and in order to get clear title, he must have contacted the heirs!!! Strange goings-on. I can hardly do research without researching tax records and deeds, and probates, when available. Many people are looking for cemetery inscriptions--I think for the most part, my early families either didn't have tombstones, or else they have eroded. E.W.Wallace