In a message dated 3/8/99 7:06:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, Soobeeg@aol.com writes: << I have very tentative information that goes back in England to about 1100 when Bird was the French "LeBrid". Over the generations it was anglicized and then we got Bird/Byrd. >> That information may be more accurate than you know. The writings of Col. Wm. Byrd of Westover, available in most libraries, gives the genealogy of the Byrds in England. This Byrd line and all collateral lines I believe descend from Hugh LeBird and his wife Werberga, daughter of Roger Dombvel. Check it out -- very interesting genealogy. Nancy Bozeman Byrd