In a message dated 98-02-13 22:34:17 EST, you write: << I have a friend in IN researching Bird/Byrd. Do you have any connections to IN? >> As far as I know the BIRD'S I a searching for were born in Missouri and Migrated to Kansas. Some of them then went on to Colorado and Oklahoma. But I would be interested in your friends line of BIRDS in Indiana because I have really hit a brick wall with the BIRD line. These are some of the BIRD names I have: all siblings Z . B. BIRD Elwood BIRD Lora BIRD Mary Elizabeth BIRD- b-abt 1865 Phoebe BIRD I don't know the parents names. They were all born in Missouri as far as I know, migrated to Kansas with their parents. Mary and Lora later lived in Oklahoma in Alva and Enid Ok.