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 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] wrote: > > In a message dated 4/22/01 8:24:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << on 4/22/01 4:46 PM, Suza Sarnecki at [log in to unmask] wrote: > > > 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 > http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nrv.htm > http://members.aol.com/jweaver300/grayson/vacwhp.htm > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html