This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hoya, Hoyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5R.2ADI/1207 Message Board Post: Okay I am at a deadend with my research and don't know where to go now. Maybe someone out there has some ideas to help me. I have been researching all Hoya of the Lower Creek indians most of whom made their way south after the Creek wars and joined the Seminoles. Who then went to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears, but as the story goes my great great grandfather dropped out of the Trail of Tears somewhere around the Carolina's. My great grandfather William Hoyer's obit has no parents listed, which is understandable since he was part Indian. So that is my dead end. So if anyone has any ideas, they would be greatly appreciated.