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=== Migration  ===
=== In-Country Migration  ===
 
Three of the major roads used to reach North Carolina:
 
*[[King's Highway]]
*[[Fall Line Road]]
*[[Great Valley Road]]
 
Other migration routes are listed on the [[North Carolina Genealogy|North Carolina]] page.
 
Many researchers know an ancestor was born in North Carolina, but they don't know precisely where. To begin in-depth research in the state, you will need to pinpoint specific counties where your ancestors lived. Jeffrey L. Haines, CG, prepared a list of "people finders" that can help you accomplish this task during different periods of North Carolina's history. See:
 
*Haines, Jeffrey L. "People Finders for North Carolina," ''North Carolina Genealogical Journal'', Vol. 35, No. 1 (Feb. 2009):5-14. {{FHL|12718|item|disp=FHL Book 975.6 B2j}}.
 
Free native-born North Carolinians, alive in 1850, who had left the state, resettled as follows:<ref name="Lynch">These statistics do not account for the large number of North Carolinians who had migrated 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>
 
{| width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
|-
| bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''State'''
| bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''Persons Born in North Carolina'''
| bgcolor="#cccccc" | '''Percentage'''
|-
| Tennessee
| 72,027
|-
| Georgia
| 37,522
|-
| Indiana
| 33,175
|-
| Alabama
| 28,521
|-
| Mississippi
| 21,487
|-
| Missouri
| 17,009
|-
| Kentucky
| 14,279
|-
| Illinois
| 13,851
|-
| Arkansas
| 8,772
|-
| South Carolina
| 6,173
|-
| Texas
| 5,155
|-
| Ohio
| 4,807
|-
| Florida
| 3,537
|-
| Louisiana
| 2,923
|}
 
Dorothy Williams Potter in ''Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823'' ({{FHL|265121|item|disp=FHL Book 975 W4p}}) identifies some migrants from North Carolina into territories that are now [[Alabama, United States Genealogy|Alabama]], [[Florida Genealogy|Florida]], [[Louisiana Genealogy|Louisiana]], [[Mississippi Genealogy|Mississippi]], and [[Missouri, United States Genealogy|Missouri]].
 
Robertson compiled a list of North Carolinians living in Kansas in 1860:
 
*Robertson, Clara Hamlett. ''Kansas Territorial Settlers of 1860 Who were Born in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina:&nbsp;A Compilation with Historical Annotations and Editorial Comment''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976. {{FHL|205844|item|disp=FHL book 978.1 H2ro}}.
 
Useful sources showing migration patterns:
 
*Dollarhide, William. ''Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735–1815''. Bountiful, Utah: AGLL Genealogical Services, 1997. {{FHL|205844|item|disp=FHL book 973 E3d}} This book contains many good maps.
 
*Billington, Ray Allen. ''Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier''. 5th ed. New York, New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1982. {{FHL|51843|item|disp=FHL book 973 H2bw}} This book has explanations and maps of settlement and migration of various groups.
 
Works on migration within and through North Carolina are listed under:
 
:'''UNITED STATES - MIGRATION, INTERNAL'''
 
:'''NORTH CAROLINA - MIGRATION, INTERNAL'''


== References  ==
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