Hi,   Today Mike Boyd visited Grand Rapids, Michigan and gave his history talk to a goup of 10 people.  It was the perfect way to spend a cold rainy day.  Mike talked for almost 4 hours, sharing the history of the Boyd family and also giving advice to individuals about how to research their own line.  Even though we had a mix of novice and experienced family historians, I think that everyone learned something new...I know I did!  It was a very successful meeting and we are thankful to Mike for making Grand Rapids a stop on his tour.    After his talk, we went out for lunch with Roger Moffat of the Western Michigan Genealogical Society.  The WMGS co-sponsored Mike's talk by helping with advertising and provided a lovely room for us to use.  Roger Moffat is responsible for the genealogy portion of the Moffat Clan website and we talked quite a bit about how to use their technology to get Mike's vast records onto a website for all to use.  My husband Clint and I were very excited about taking on that challenge and will be discussing it further with Mike.    I highly recommend that you try to attend one of Mike's talks if you have not done so before.  After researching our Boyd line for 10 years, I thought that I knew a lot about the Boyd history.  But, Mike amazed us all with his wealth of knowledge and the way that he was able to cite so many dates and names without using notes.  After listening to Mike, I have some new ideas of where to look next with our research.    Yolanda Boyd Ada, Michigan