# Welcome to the Readers' Room **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Created:** [November 3, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/t/welcome-to-the-readers-room/5 "2026-11-03T19:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
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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. ---
**Author:** ![lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/u/lorimer8541)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 4:40am UTC](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/t/welcome-to-the-readers-room/5/2 "2026-11-04T04:40:36Z")
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**Author:** ![lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/u/lorimer8541)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/t/welcome-to-the-readers-room/5/3 "2026-11-04T04:53:14Z")
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**Author:** ![lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/u/lorimer8541)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/t/welcome-to-the-readers-room/5/4 "2026-11-04T04:53:25Z")
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**Author:** ![lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/u/lorimer8541)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/t/welcome-to-the-readers-room/5/5 "2026-11-04T04:53:26Z")
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**Author:** ![lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lorimer8541](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/u/lorimer8541)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 4:53am UTC](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/t/welcome-to-the-readers-room/5/6 "2026-11-04T04:53:49Z")
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**Author:** ![omni](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@omni](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/u/omni)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 6:17am UTC](https://community.mccoyinhatfieldcountry.com/t/welcome-to-the-readers-room/5/9 "2026-11-04T06:17:07Z")
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. ---
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