AS "everyone" knows, a researcher has to be aware of the political, economic, and historical framework of the time/era and place/locale they are researching in because it helps to track some of the ancestors who to prove to difficult to trace. Seems to me if one record says WV and another says VA that it is a good idea to pin down timeframes and causes for when this seemingly schizoid situation occured. I was whizzing through some material looking for keywords, and noted that had "counties, border, WV, VA, broke away", and it was either RW or CW that this happened? I know that is vague, but like most of us, I plow through a lot of material every day .... Does anyone know of a brief online outline of the history along the WV/VA border that they would like to recommend? Suz G