This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UFH.2ACEB/945.2 Message Board Post: I recieved a copy of your recent email via rootsweb.Your reference to a book by Henry Harrison Byers interests me. In 1947 Harry Everett Wilson (similarity??) published a book on the Byers family in Indiana. As the Indiana family goes to Jacob Beyer, (b.12/27/1779, Penn.) son of Philipp Boyer (Germany/Baltimore/Penn) I am interested in the possibility of connection here. Jacob's son's traveled west dropping off progeny in Western PA, Ohio, Illinois and finally (finally assumed, although who knows for sure) Indiana. Can you tell me a bit more about your book? My family is beautifully traced through a book publised in 2000 by C.C. & Joan Beyers of Los Angeles. It is 670 pages of very well researched material but does not deal at all with the Ohio branch as it follows only Jacob's line. But Jacob had 7 brothers, lost in the genealogical wilderness. Perhaps there is some connection here? Many thanks, Ken Byers San Francisco