> I am looking for a detailed map of Gay, WV for the time frame 1908-1925, > preferably one that may have the name of the families that lived there. Is there > anyone researching folks that live in Gay? My line of Cox and Harman's > came from that area. Gay is more of an "area" than a town or city. And, the "streets" haven't changed from the 1908-1925 time period you're looking for. When I look for towns, areas, and cemeteries, I use the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) webpage that has the form for entering what I'm looking for: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form As for Gay, you can select from several types of maps here: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=1539361 This is the TopoZone map of Gay, large size: http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4292166.00011019&e=450875.999999996&datum=nad83 My Litton ancestors are from Gay, they settled the area in the late fall of 1832. If you'd like to read about the early days of the area, try "Abraham Litton - A Historical Sketch" - by John A. House Published in the Jackson Herald, Ripley, WV, April 12, 1912 at: http://rootsweb.com/~deschart/abraham.html Hear is a descendant chart of a Cox family of Gay WV: http://rootsweb.com/~deschart/z0000082.html You can browse a list of linked descendant charts of many WV families at: http://rootsweb.com/~deschart/idc.html The People Index for those the charts is at: http://rootsweb.com/~deschart/i-people.html There are some Harmans. We have 1,300+ linked descendant charts at http://rootsweb.com/~deschart containing 170,000+ people. The process became to difficult to do manually though, and so last month we started moving the charts over to a new automated database system at http://www.webroots.org/ourfamily and expect to be adding 10,000+ people a month. Daryl