This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.myers/5726.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Tim This is just a hint and it most likely does not apply to you but it needs to be said anyway. I have been doing research on the Myers name for some time. Many Myers families have Native American blood in them. That fact needed to be hidden in the mid 1800. Best way out is to tell the census taker that the family is from Germany. So now you might have two recorded locations of birth. The Ross name is also part Native American. John Ross was Chief of the Cherokees during the civil war.