Thanks, everyone, for helping me try to figure out who fits where in the Bird family. It seems that there were three different Thomas Birds that came from England. One, born 1593, had a wife Mary and settled in Farmington, Hartford Co, CT; another was Thomas Bird b 1653, wife Elizabeth, moved to NC (I think) - this is the line that came from Thomas LeBird and has been traced back to the 1100's. The third is a family that settled in Dorchester, MA. If these three families are connected in England, I haven't seen evidence of it. Someone suggested a web page for coordinating all these Bird lines. I have a large website, at http://www.geocities.com/~jupisano. If anyone else has a website and wants to give me their URL, I'll compile a list of them. Or, if you send me your Gedcom (Mac format, please) I'll put it on my website when I get the time. I'd like to help get all these families coordinated. Judy