Suggestion: Do a google.com search for *tyree family* Even though the contributors may know nothing of your Tyree family, no doubt they can provide you with some leads, as in order to select their earliest families, they probably have had to sort through many a Tyree listing. Try the same google.com search with McWhirter. A good many Tennessee early settlers came from North Carolina, and you may find some clues there, particularly in LAND records. More and more land entries and grants of North Carolina have been published particularly by Margaret M. Hofmann [note spelling] Check with a nearby public library to see if any of them subscribe to a genealogical database--online. It is called HeritageQuest. It has many of the US censuses on it--but not all have been indexed. If you have a library card (with a number on it) from a subscribing public library, then you can access the database from your home computer. It is a good way to find people in the pre-1850 census [which has not yet been indexed].. Good luck. E.W.Wallace whose folks used Tennessee as a *pass-through* state, not sticking around very long