----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Boyd" <mikejboyd@bigpond.com> To: <BOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 11:07 AM Subject: Members attending AGM at Las Vegas 16 &17 April > If you are attending and have not already provided me with your family > tree, could I ask you to both bring a paper copy of it and if possible a > copy on a CD or 5 inch disk in a Word 2 or Word 2000 format please. > > While if you wish to "start" constructing your family tree, I can also > help you to do that as well. It would be ideal, if you cold send me a > copy of your "Boyd direct tree". > > You would do this by starting with yourself. If you are a grandparent, > start with the X generation and then put after the X the number of the > order of birth you are in your parents family. If you are middle aged use > the Y generation and if only in your youth use the Z generation. This > will help to provide a structure to your family to separate out the > various generations. This separation of generations will/may have to be > altered if we find a connection to another know Boyd family or much later > if we are able to get you connected to the central stem of the Boyd family > at Kilmarnock. > > You will need to provide the full names, dates and locations and the same > for the spouse as well. This will allow me to search the earlier > generations to see if your family is already one of the known 630 families > that I have. > > If you could do that before say 10 April, I should be able to get enough > time to search before I leave on the morning of 14 April to go to Las > Vegas. > > Thank you > > Mike Boyd > Historical Committee, HBS > >