-Joyce - Really?!? cause I have relations back to the Bird family of NC, the furthest back I have found so far is Edward Bird (or Byrd) of Duplin, North Carolina, born Abt. 1755 - died Bef. 1830 in Franklin, MS. I am his 5th great-granddaughter. My line goes from him through his son William Bird - to Ebenizer P Bird - to Amaranth Harriet "Anne" Bird - to Lula Leora Garrard - to Daisy Elizabeth Creekmore - to Barbara Jenkins (my mother). Do you have a gedcom file you could send me? If so send to anathema_studio@hotmail.com ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Joyce G. Reece" <bjreece@bellsouth.net> Reply-To: CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com To: CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:25:40 -0500 The BIRD family has some associations with the Emory/Hembree family....got several middle names of Bird....like Joel Bird in the group...It is said to be from the Bird family of NC Joyce Gaston Reece ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lindsey Avery" <anathema_studio@hotmail.com> To: <CHEROKEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] >Thanks for the website, I'll check that out. Reverund Red Bird Smith of the ==== CHEROKEE Mailing List ==== <<>OPEN forum to all Cherokee topics - except Genealogy<>> <>Culture-History-Language-Folk lore and Truths<> Good Manners & Language is required to be on the list ALL the links you will need to sub and unsub or contact listowner below http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Native/CHEROKEE.html ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx