This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DYER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2hB.2ACI/111.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Glad YOU found him! Not even listed under "v's" in Sistlers efforts for 1850. They have a James VYSE, 56, Tolitha, 38, Japser, 16; Newton, 16; Ephraim, 14; Abigail, 12; Louisa, 10, Algerina DYCE, 1, He b. VA, Mom b. TN, McMinn Co. 1061/597. Is this close to the area you found them in your searching? Could be related somehow. I know it is difficult to work on Census records prior to 1850, but there IS a James DYER living in McMinn Co. in 1830. He was ? in 1850, so should be 20 years younger in 1830. This one is listed with 1 male under 5, 3 10-15, 1 30-40/1 female under 5, 1 5-10, 1 10-15 & 1 20-30. Depending on where birthdays fell, and when enumerator "walked" the assigned area is the clue to postives in any of the earlier Census records. There are two James in Grainger. One is 30-40 (p. 366, and living next to a Charlton, a George two houses away, and a OIlder man, Joseph, 80-90 years old 5 houses away. There are also 2 James on p. 359. 1 is 20-30, the second is next door and 50-60. The interesting thing about all this, is that I am finding a goodly number of names sprinkled among the others listed, that definitely are found among those that migrated to Roane Co. after the Native American Treaty was signed in 1817, and the lands not given as reservation being sold at the "Court House Door" at the Federal Court in Knoxville. (We also have families living "South of the River" named VIAR - wonder if transcribers have gotten entangled with that name!