Migration patterns are so important. But in our Louisiana research, we have stumbled across a pattern we didn't know about and don't exactly understand.

 

What we are seeing a trend as we expand our research outside direct lines (to cousins and in-laws). Appears that at the end of the 19th century through about 1920 there was large migration from Baton Rouge and surrounding area to Texas. One would normally think it was oil related, but the folks that move don't necessarily go into the oil business. They will be farmers or carpenters or whatever. And they don't go to any one particular place, as you might expect of families moving together. They head to all different parts of the state (and it's a big state).

 

I'll post more as we figure out the whys and hows...