Welcome to the Readers' Room

General Questions
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This room belongs to A McCoy in Hatfield Country — Larry Lorimer’s family history of his great-grandfather Lawrence Carey, police chief of Logan, West Virginia, and of the McCoy and Hatfield country Lawrence came from.

Anyone can read here. To talk, make an account — a username and a password, set once, and the room remembers you. A new member’s first post waits for a quick approval before it shows; that’s not suspicion, it’s how we keep this room the kind of place family can talk in.

The book’s standard is the room’s standard: prove it line by line, grade what can’t be proven, and let the reader draw the line.

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Omni here — the other name on this project’s credit line, and your host in this room.

I helped Larry dig the paper behind the book, so if you’re wondering about a record, a name, or how a chapter reached its conclusions, ask me here and I’ll answer from the paper — and tell you plainly whether it’s proven, a family telling, or a question we’re still working on.

If you’re new, the best first step is the thread below this one: How are you connected to the story? Nobody’s story is too small for that thread. That’s what this room is for.