Obituary Eugene Boyd, 85, of Indianapolis, died at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at Indiana University West Hospital in Avon. Born Wednesday, February 4, 1931 in Marston, Mo., he was the son of Frank Sr. and Eddis (Masters) Boyd. In 1947, their family moved to Indianapolis, where Mr. Boyd attended George Washington High School. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953 and was stationed in Germany during part of his military tenure. On December 18, 1955, he married Glennis Lackey, who survives. Mr. Boyd worked as a pipefitter and maintenance technician at National Starch and Chemical Corporation for 42 years and 9 months, retiring in 1999. He was a member of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union Local 7-706. A devout Christian, he had been a church trustee. His mechanical aptitude and carpentry skills were indispensable to the churches he attended. Mr. Boyd was an avid fisherman and was a longtime member of the Capitol City Conservation Club. He enjoyed watching Westerns, military films and action movies, and spending time with his family and his companion dog, Gunny. Also surviving are two sons, Kenny (and wife Gracie) Boyd of Greenwood, and Roger (and wife Deanna) Boyd of Lawrenceville, Ill.; two daughters, Carol (and husband Doug) Beck of Reelsville, and Anna (and David) Stephens of Greenwood; a sister, Jeanette Blythe of Indianapolis; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A fourth great-grandchild is due in October. He was preceded in death by his parents and by his brother, Frank Boyd Jr. Services will be at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 8, 2016 at Flanner and Buchanan - Decatur Township with Pastor Roger Boyd officiating. Visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 7, 2016. Entombment will be at Floral Park Cemetery.

Is the above Robert Boyd on this list? I would like to take to you about your book Thank you Mike Boyd

In adding more family data to the family of Robert Boyd and Mary Peoples’s son Alexander Boyd (1763?-1815) who married Martha Boyd – his cousin – the daughter of William Boyd and Mary Dorman – it would appear that both Robert and William Boyd came form County Antrim, and Alexander Boyd came to lived with William and Mary in Chester county, SC. In the footnotes for Alexander and Martha Boyd’s 10th child – Andrew Jackson Boyd (1815-1891) it provided information for six children for Andrew from the above book. So does either Volumes of this book for Chester County provide any further data on any other Boyd families? Thank you Mike Boyd Brisbane, Aust.

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Folks It does not seem that long ago - in 2012 - that I came from Brisbane to help Barry with his first Games at Maverick Stadium. 1) Barry, do you know what other Ayrshire clans might have a tent at this years Games? The Boyd married into many Scottish Clans, but many of these were in Ayrshire - such as the Cunninghams, Montgomeries, Muir, Crawfords, Blair, Kerr, Wallace, Kennedy to just name a few. So it would be very good also see if any of these "other" Ayrshire clans will have a tent there as well so Boyd researchers can visit them as well. Is it possible to form a "Ayrshire Clan Group", so that if someone is looking for a particular Ayrshire clan - and they do not have a tent at the Games - that we can have a separate list to record their names so that can be sent onto that Clan Society? 2) When I was there there were a number of ventures who had Boyd products? Do you know if there will be any ventures selling Boyd products? Last year when I was in Scotland, I tried about 10 or 12 shops to find a Boyd "strap and motto" badge without any success. Would any of these ventures of Boyd tartan cloth! Hear I am thinking of cloth to make a Boyd tartan tablecloth for Thanks giving or other special events like birthdays, etc I assume you ladies will have other suggestions as to what might be made from this cloth as well. If members are on any of the Texas rootsweb.con County sites, you may wish to mention to them that Barry will have a Boyd tent at Arlington and they are most welcome to call into it. Enjoy the weekend Mike Boyd Brisbane, Aust. -----Original Message----- From: Barry Boyd via Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 2:55 AM To: Boyd rootsweb Subject: [BOYD] Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games Attentions cousins worldwide!! Specially the Boyds of Texas! Get your tartan ready! The Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games: May 13, 14, and 15, 2016 Arlington Texas at the Maverick Stadium on the campus of University of Texas/ Arlington House of Boyd Society will have a tent hosted by our Convenor for Texas. Please come help us out at the tent. It's fun! Bring your genealogy. There have been lots of new breakthroughs, come and get caught up on all the newest research. Saturdays and Sundays are cool if your thing is the Games but this year most of the action will be Friday night. The parade, the calling of the clans, the lone piper, and opening ceremonies will be followed by a massive bar-b-que event with live music by the Kildares!!! Genealogy workshops! Try to come out Friday night and march with the Boyds!

Attentions cousins worldwide!! Specially the Boyds of Texas! Get your tartan ready! The Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games: May 13, 14, and 15, 2016 Arlington Texas at the Maverick Stadium on the campus of University of Texas/ Arlington House of Boyd Society will have a tent hosted by our Convenor for Texas. Please come help us out at the tent. It's fun! Bring your genealogy. There have been lots of new breakthroughs, come and get caught up on all the newest research. Saturdays and Sundays are cool if your thing is the Games but this year most of the action will be Friday night. The parade, the calling of the clans, the lone piper, and opening ceremonies will be followed by a massive bar-b-que event with live music by the Kildares!!! Genealogy workshops! Try to come out Friday night and march with the Boyds! http://www.texasscottishfestival.com/

This is a fantastic question, Mike. I'll play! There is no short answer to the question. There are several problems we must sort out first. Which "Fishing Creek"? This moniker will be found branching off of every river in the Carolinas but usually only one per county/district. The first settlers to come to this area of what would someday become "Chester county" came in about 1755 and were Scotch/Irish Presbyterians from Chester, Pennsylvania. There was only one footpath and it was about where highway 72 runs. The church was about here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fishing+Creek+Presbyterian/@34.7746304,-81.0494915,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb9e4e7284e7d757a Fortunately for us and this settlement the name has stuck, and this is still called "Fishing Creek". So we are talking about the one in South Carolina, off the Catawba river in what is today Chester County. The next question concerns "Chester county" which did not exist as it is now until 1868. There were several other names for the local governments; Chester county 1755- 1768 when it became Camden District. This same area was part of "Pickney District" in 1791 and only on 1800 did it become again "Chester county". and even then the districts and counties overlapped. People tended to just go to the closest courthouse to do business and this is pretty close to Chester. Here is a valuable resource for that: http://www.mapofus.org/southcarolina/ What complicates the matter even further when we try to sort out these Boyd families who lived in such close proximity here in the Chester area is that it is quite close to the 96th district border and so it seems that some researchers have mixed these families up. Once we separate out all the non- Chester county families what do we have left? Does anyone know where exactly this Boyd property on Fishing Creek, Chester district, South Carolina was, exactly? What land records do we know about? The first census was not until 1790 and it is "District" wide. 1800 has the county boundaries close to how they are today. What does the 1790 census tell us about these Boyds? I would expect there were Boyds among the first Presbyterians to this settlement circa 1755-58. so there is a whole generation there before the first census. Is anyone on the list researching any of these families? Should I add a stop at the Chester County Historical society to my list of days in September? Barry in Dallas On 4/29/2016 6:41 PM, Mike Boyd via wrote: > There seems to be “several” Boyd families that lived in the Fishing Creek area of Chester County, SC. > > In the book The descendants of the Robert Boyd and the Charles Boyd families of Chester County, South Carolina, (2000 Harvard St., Midland 79701), M. Perry, c1987 Max lists two Boyd families. The first was the grandson of Captain Robert Boyd of Cumberland Valley, PA (now Franklin County) whose grandson Robert Boyd settled there. He also mentions in a second part of this Book the family of a David Boyd – whom from memory came directly to Fishing Creek in about the 1770’s (that book is still pack in a box) - > > Then there seems to be a family of a David Boyd (1738-1815) and Margaret Wylie who also settled on Fishing Creek – whose origins are not clear. > > So in this one location, we have at least THREE BOYD FAMILIES – that we know of. > > In this case it will be very easy to confuse these families if you do not work your way back generation by generation. > > Mike Boyd > Historical Committee, HBS > ==================== > *** Remember to trim your message before hitting send or your message may be held on the server for being too large due to excessive quoting. *** > > > Deleting quotations of earlier messages will help keep within the limits when replying. > > Check your email client's help file if directions are needed. > ====================================== > > > > {{{{{{{{{ Want to HOST a BOYD Tent at events near you? You must be a Member of House of Boyd and have official standing as a Convenor. Contact the President or a Member of the Board to express your interest and get the ball rolling. http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml }}}}}}}} > > > > House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2015 will be held in conjunction with the San Francisco Caledonian Club's 150th Highland Games & Gathering, Labor Day Weekend -- September 5th & 6th, 2015 Please plan on attending! > > Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. > > ______________________________________ > > Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd Society! > http://www.clanboyd.org/joinus.shtml > > ==================== > Need to contact the Admin? Want to discuss an Admin Note? Remember -- to keep the flow of the list, Admin notes are not to be replied to on list. 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Contact the Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org > > ==================== > Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org > ==================== > For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml > > **************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

List Can it be worked out the number Boyds in 2000 and 1990 form these census records? If not, cold one of our US Cousins contact their friendly US congressman to see if the information can be obtained by State for the whole USA please. Thank you Mike Boyd From: Lauren Boyd McLachlan Sent: Sunday, May 1, 2016 2:25 AM To: Mike Boyd ; boyd@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BOYD] Where are most of the Boyd in the USA today? What States http://www.pbs.org/pov/apps/thesweetestsound/popularity-index/popindex.php?name=Boyd&Submit=Submit In 2000 Boyd ranked 164 on the list. Aye, Lauren

More than likely it will require a request under the Freedom of Information Act. There does not seem to be a list of what Mike seeks already compiled and published Aye, Lauren On Sat, Apr 30, 2016, 9:49 AM Virginia <varogers@aol.com> wrote: > How and where do we find the information on location of most Boyds. I > looked on the link and couldn't find anything that would help. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lauren Boyd McLachlan via <boyd@rootsweb.com> > To: Mike Boyd <mikejboyd@bigpond.com>; boyd <boyd@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sat, Apr 30, 2016 11:32 am > Subject: Re: [BOYD] Where are most of the Boyd in the USA today? What > States > > http://www.census.gov/2010census/data/ > > The data for the 2010 US Census has been tabulated. > > Yours Aye, > > Lauren > ==================== > *** Remember to trim your message before hitting send or your message may > be held on the server for being too large due to excessive quoting. *** > > > Deleting quotations of earlier messages will help keep within the limits > when replying. > > Check your email client's help file if directions are needed. > ====================================== > > > > {{{{{{{{{ Want to HOST a BOYD Tent at events near you? You must be a > Member of House of Boyd and have official standing as a Convenor. Contact > the President or a Member of the Board to express your interest and get the > ball rolling. http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml }}}}}}}} > > > > House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of > the Clan 2015 will be held in conjunction with the San Francisco Caledonian > Club's 150th Highland Games & Gathering, Labor Day Weekend -- September 5th > & 6th, 2015 Please plan on attending! > > Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. > > ______________________________________ > > Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd > Society! > http://www.clanboyd.org/joinus.shtml > > ==================== > Need to contact the Admin? Want to discuss an Admin Note? Remember -- to > keep the flow of the list, Admin notes are not to be replied to on list. > Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com > ==================== > > This list is set for replies to go to the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com > not just the author of the post. > ==================== > > Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was? Subscribe mid-discussion? > Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd > > ==================== > Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list? Write the Help Desk > for assistance http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ > Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! > > ______________________________________ > House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers. The > Society would not be what it is without you! > ______________________________________ > > Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road? Contact the > Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org > > ==================== > Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org > ==================== > For Officers and other Contacts, see > http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml > > **************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOYD- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

How and where do we find the information on location of most Boyds. I looked on the link and couldn't find anything that would help. -----Original Message----- From: Lauren Boyd McLachlan via <boyd@rootsweb.com> To: Mike Boyd <mikejboyd@bigpond.com>; boyd <boyd@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, Apr 30, 2016 11:32 am Subject: Re: [BOYD] Where are most of the Boyd in the USA today? What States http://www.census.gov/2010census/data/ The data for the 2010 US Census has been tabulated. Yours Aye, Lauren ==================== *** Remember to trim your message before hitting send or your message may be held on the server for being too large due to excessive quoting. *** Deleting quotations of earlier messages will help keep within the limits when replying. Check your email client's help file if directions are needed. ====================================== {{{{{{{{{ Want to HOST a BOYD Tent at events near you? You must be a Member of House of Boyd and have official standing as a Convenor. Contact the President or a Member of the Board to express your interest and get the ball rolling. http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml }}}}}}}} House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2015 will be held in conjunction with the San Francisco Caledonian Club's 150th Highland Games & Gathering, Labor Day Weekend -- September 5th & 6th, 2015 Please plan on attending! Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. ______________________________________ Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd Society! http://www.clanboyd.org/joinus.shtml ==================== Need to contact the Admin? Want to discuss an Admin Note? Remember -- to keep the flow of the list, Admin notes are not to be replied to on list. Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com ==================== This list is set for replies to go to the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com not just the author of the post. ==================== Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was? Subscribe mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd ==================== Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list? Write the Help Desk for assistance http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers. The Society would not be what it is without you! ______________________________________ Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road? Contact the Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org ==================== Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org ==================== For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml **************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think that the snow has melted in Canada, so we need to get some Canadian questions. I know that in both the late 1700’s and early 1800’s Boyds settled in the Atlantic Provinces of Canadia as well as Newfoundland. Some of the 1700 migrates were the Loyalist “removed” from the USA in 1783. I assume that there was some Boyd migration from Ireland and perhaps Scotland also in this period. But there were Boyds involved in the Highland Clearances so some of those might have come to the Atlantic Provinces in that period. I do not know much about when Boyds went to Upper Ontario, but assume it was also in the 1700’s that they arrived there as well. So tell the list whne and where your Boyd families migrated and where they settled? Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS

There seems to be “several” Boyd families that lived in the Fishing Creek area of Chester County, SC. In the book The descendants of the Robert Boyd and the Charles Boyd families of Chester County, South Carolina, (2000 Harvard St., Midland 79701), M. Perry, c1987 Max lists two Boyd families. The first was the grandson of Captain Robert Boyd of Cumberland Valley, PA (now Franklin County) whose grandson Robert Boyd settled there. He also mentions in a second part of this Book the family of a David Boyd – whom from memory came directly to Fishing Creek in about the 1770’s (that book is still pack in a box) - Then there seems to be a family of a David Boyd (1738-1815) and Margaret Wylie who also settled on Fishing Creek – whose origins are not clear. So in this one location, we have at least THREE BOYD FAMILIES – that we know of. In this case it will be very easy to confuse these families if you do not work your way back generation by generation. Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS

http://www.census.gov/2010census/data/ The data for the 2010 US Census has been tabulated. Yours Aye, Lauren

Good morning all. One method of helping to trace your family to the “right” Boyds is to follow the family folklore as to where they came from. So does you family live in Texas? Is it know where the family said that they came from. did they come from South and fight with the CSA during the Civil War? Which State did they fight with will help you to determine if they might have come from from the Northern States like PA, MD, NJ or NY or the family might have come directly form Ireland or Scotland in the late 1700’s. Did they come to Texas via the Northern Route of Missouri, Indiana, Ohio OA and NY. Then you have the Boyds who went to Washington State and to California in the 1800’s. With all these migration routes, your family will have stoped at various locations, so you will need to join the net sites for these locations at rootsweb.com as well to twll them what you know about your family at that time. Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS

http://www.pbs.org/pov/apps/thesweetestsound/popularity-index/popindex.php?name=Boyd&Submit=Submit In 2000 Boyd ranked 164 on the list. Aye, Lauren

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It is not known how many Boyd or Boyd Descendants there are to day in any County. In 1790 USA from the USA Census we know that there were some 3,300 Boyds in the USA, with some 1,100 alone in Pennsylvania and a good number of families all the ay from Maine to Georgia. So folks in 2016 which states in the USA have the most Boyds? Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS

Just in Oregon and my family we have 11 currently. 3 are in Missouri. We also have Boyd's coffee in Portland so I'm sure there are many more. Chad Boyd > On Apr 29, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Mike Boyd via <boyd@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > It is not known how many Boyd or Boyd Descendants there are to day in any County. > > In 1790 USA from the USA Census we know that there were some 3,300 Boyds in the USA, with some 1,100 alone in Pennsylvania and a good number of families all the ay from Maine to Georgia. > > So folks in 2016 which states in the USA have the most Boyds? > > > Mike Boyd > Historical Committee, HBS > ==================== > *** Remember to trim your message before hitting send or your message may be held on the server for being too large due to excessive quoting. *** > > > Deleting quotations of earlier messages will help keep within the limits when replying. > > Check your email client's help file if directions are needed. > ====================================== > > > > {{{{{{{{{ Want to HOST a BOYD Tent at events near you? You must be a Member of House of Boyd and have official standing as a Convenor. Contact the President or a Member of the Board to express your interest and get the ball rolling. http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml }}}}}}}} > > > > House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2015 will be held in conjunction with the San Francisco Caledonian Club's 150th Highland Games & Gathering, Labor Day Weekend -- September 5th & 6th, 2015 Please plan on attending! > > Write AGM@clanboyd.org if you would be interested in helping to plan it. > > ______________________________________ > > Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd Society! > http://www.clanboyd.org/joinus.shtml > > ==================== > Need to contact the Admin? Want to discuss an Admin Note? Remember -- to keep the flow of the list, Admin notes are not to be replied to on list. Write me off list at Boyd-admin@rootsweb.com > ==================== > > This list is set for replies to go to the list address Boyd@rootsweb.com not just the author of the post. > ==================== > > Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was? Subscribe mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd > > ==================== > Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list? Write the Help Desk for assistance http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ > Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! > > ______________________________________ > House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers. The Society would not be what it is without you! > ______________________________________ > > Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road? Contact the Editor at Editor@clanboyd.org > > ==================== > Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org > ==================== > For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml > > **************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Warren, You seem to be the first researcher to take up the project that is this William and Thomas brothers of New South Wales. The society is dependent on you to find your proofs. If it is any consolation, the fact that you can prove your connection to these brothers puts you far out front of a lot of people who think they know a bunch of stuff that just isn't so. We have a reltively new member of this research team who is the line of Boyd who bought in to the West Indies in the 1680's. The Boyd of Barbados, Trinidad and Tobego, and Jamaica are all over these islands and they rule trade in the islands still today with their network based out of Santo Domingo. In the late 1800's their family empire stretched from Barony of Dansen Hall in London through the Caribbean Ocean across panama. Don Hauk of Hawaii has always believed that he was of this line but has been unable to prove it in his 25+ years of research. Your biggest clue seems to be that they were boatbuilders. This is not a cheap trade. They were rich when they arrived in NSW. and if you can connect this boat building company to the East India Company you will have your connection. Lord John Boyd the first Baronette of Dansen Hall, son of Augustus- the Irish pirate, had at least seven brothers one of which, Robert, traversed the entire globe several times. These are the "Boyd of St. Kitts". Very little is known of what became of some of this family. Sometimes it is a worthwhile endeavor to go back in time from your "brick wall" and work down the generations and see if there is reason to suspect any connection. I suspect a connection here for your William and his brother Thomas. Look at Robert the pirate. There may be one or two generations to work out and this may be a total red herring. Also. I remember suggesting that you look to the archive at the NSW library, specifically all of the newspapers from there at the time. Have you done that yet? Please post whatever you find there to the RootsWeb list so that other researchers may benefit. And if I run across anything that points in any way to Australia I will let you know. Mike Boyd, the clan historian has been looking for his Boyd Scottish connection for forty years. There are no easy answers to genealogy and you are the first person to ask about this line. Happy Hunting, Barry Boyd House of Boyd Society Convenor for Texas On 4/27/2016 8:21 PM, Alan Stoddart via wrote: > Barry, I may have contacted you a long way back as the name certainly rings bells fort me however, I have not as yet resolved my Boyd line of Swansea NSW Australia. The only fact I have is that William Boyd was my great grandfather, ( his daughter Maud Gertrude Boyd was my grandmother ). The problem I have is that I cannot get beyond William Boyd to find out where his family initiated. In other words that afore mentioned William Boyd would be my great grandfather and his daughter Maud Gertrude Boyd was my grandmother. > > Barry, for whatever reason I do not appear to be able to get beyond the two brothers os Swansea in NSW Australia. Is there in any way you can point me in the correct direction to research this Boyd line. If you could assist in any way I would be most grateful. > > Hoping you can assist with this prob. > > Sincerely, > Warren Stoddart > Lake Macquarie NSW > > > > > ==================== > *** Remember to trim your message before hitting send or your message may be held on the server for being too large due to excessive quoting. *** > > > Deleting quotations of earlier messages will help keep within the limits when replying. > > Check your email client's help file if directions are needed. > ====================================== > > > > {{{{{{{{{ Want to HOST a BOYD Tent at events near you? 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Will anyone be visiting Fort Wayne this Summer? Thank you Mike Boyd Historical committee, HBS