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Many settlers from [[Maryland Genealogy|Maryland]] and [[Pennsylvania Genealogy|Pennsylvania]] migrated down into Virginia during the colonial period. The [[Great Valley Road|Great Valley Road]], which passed through the Shenandoah Valley was a popular route.  
Many settlers from [[Maryland Genealogy|Maryland]] and [[Pennsylvania Genealogy|Pennsylvania]] migrated down into Virginia during the colonial period. The [[Great Valley Road|Great Valley Road]], which passed through the Shenandoah Valley was a popular route.  


== Westward Migrants  ==
Free native-born Virginians, alive in 1850, who had left the state, resettled as follows:<ref name="Lynch">These statistics do not account for the large number of Virginians who had resettled and died before the year 1850. See: William O. Lynch, "The Westward Flow of Southern Colonists before 1861," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug. 1943):303-327. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2191319 JSTOR] ($).</ref>
{| cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="100%" border="1"
|-
| bgcolor="#cccccc" | <center>'''State'''</center>
| bgcolor="#cccccc" | <center>'''Persons Born in Virginia'''</center>
| bgcolor="#cccccc" | <center>'''Percentage'''</center>
|-
| <center>Ohio</center>
| <center>85,762</center>
| <center>22%</center>
|-
| <center>Kentucky</center>
| <center>54,694</center>
| <center>14%</center>
|-
| <center>Tennessee</center>
| <center>46,631</center>
| <center>12%</center>
|-
| <center>Indiana</center>
| <center>41,819</center>
| <center>11%</center>
|-
| <center>Missouri</center>
| <center>40,777</center>
| <center>11%</center>
|-
| <center>Illinois</center>
| <center>24,697</center>
| <center>6%</center>
|-
| <center>Alabama</center>
| <center>10,387</center>
| <center>3%</center>
|-
| <center>Mississippi</center>
| <center>8,357</center>
| <center>2%</center>
|-
| <center>Georgia</center>
| <center>7,331</center>
| <center>2%</center>
|-
| <center>Texas</center>
| <center>3,580</center>
| <center>1%</center>
|-
| <center>Louisiana</center>
| <center>3,216</center>
| <center>1%</center>
|-
| <center>Other</center>
| <center>60,808</center>
| <center>16%</center>
|-
| <center>'''Total'''</center>
| <center>'''388,059'''</center>
| <center>'''101%'''</center>
|}


Many Virginians moved to [[Georgia Genealogy (state)|Georgia]] immediately after the American Revolution.<ref>John Frederick Dorman, "Review of ''Research in Georgia,"'' in ''The Virginia Genealogist,'' Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1981):147. Digital version at [https://www.americanancestors.org/index.aspx American Ancestors] ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 25 (1981)}}</ref> Barlow published records identifying some of them:  
Many Virginians moved to [[Georgia Genealogy (state)|Georgia]] immediately after the American Revolution.<ref>John Frederick Dorman, "Review of ''Research in Georgia,"'' in ''The Virginia Genealogist,'' Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1981):147. Digital version at [https://www.americanancestors.org/index.aspx American Ancestors] ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 25 (1981)}}</ref> Barlow published records identifying some of them:  
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