What's the chance you have some dates, locations....something that helps point us in the general area and time frame? I also have "missing" Byrd/Bird persons.....children of Mary Hudson Bird/Byrd and William "Billie" Bird/Byrd....Billy Bird is listed in the 1850 census of Noxubee Co., Ms with his children by his deceased wife, Mary, dau. of Frederick Hudson: Frederick Hudson Bird, William Bird, John Bird, Mary Bird, and Elizabeth Bird....Frederick H. Bird married 1851, Lousiana Elliot...William Bird also married 1851, Martha Means (who was also listed as age 14 in the 1850 census in the same household). The marriages took place in Noxubee County, Ms. The father of the children was in court in 1848 for guardianship of his children, but had already remarried by 1847, so I would make the assumption that Mary Hudson Bird died about 1846/1847.....William Byrd married Mary Hudson in Greene County, Georgia, 6 June 1826. Her father's family moved to Noxubee sometime in the mid to late 1830s, and the name of a William Bird is shown as being on the road commission for the road Macon to Delkab.....at this point, I have not found anyone searching for this family..... God Bless, E. Annette Hudson Rose 37900 Rd 86 Dinuba, California 93618 209 591-1979 [email protected] http://members.wbs.net/homepages/e/a/r/earphoto.html Researching: BEASLEY, DURST, ENGLISH, GREER, HAYNES, HUDSON, LEDBETTER, PATE, STEVENS, and others CC, http://www.rootsweb.com/~msnoxube/index.html Listowner, [email protected] co-Listowner, [email protected] HFA homepage http://members.tripod.com/~HameLia/hfa/index-2.html editor, HFA Bulletin