This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UFH.2ACEB/444.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.7.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Liz: I just wanted you to know that if Maurine does not know the ethnic backround of the Byers. No one has ever taken this line out of Tennessee. Additionally, there is a Byers line in early Tennessee when the state was considered North Carolina but I have not seen any work on that line yet. We may or maynot be related to this family. I can tell you that Byers is a Cherokee name early on in the history of the Cherokee people. Again, good luck with your search.