Dear Jeff:

Your "New River Notes" are wonderful. I used your name search and I
found my family with the name Kercheval. It listed five articles
--thousands of articles. Is there a way I can better locate my family
name in your notes?

Thanks,    Diana
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> In a message dated 4/22/01 8:24:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> << on 4/22/01 4:46 PM, Suza Sarnecki at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>  > For my daughter in 4th grade for a historical fiction story about a trip
>  > to the gold fields. We are looking for the likely overland route to St.
>  > Louis from Roanoke including, if likely at the time, passage on steamship
>  > or other boat on the Ohio. We have not had any success finding much
>  > information about routes to St. Louis from the east. Thank you for your
>  > help.
>  > >>
>
> The mostly likely way would be over land to the head of the Holston, (Marion,
> VA) where they would get a flat boat and float into the Tennessee River and
> all the way to the Ohio.  There were several boat builders in Smyth County,
> which always seemed odd to me, since it is in the mountains, then talking to
> some of the older folks who had heard the tales, it suddenly made sense.
>
> Jeff "I hate pollen" Weaver
> Arlington, VA
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