Hi Mike,   Clint is a match to Cal in the U-198 group, but they are a genetic distance of 4 at 67 markers.  Clint is a genetic distance of 3 at 67 markers to David Boyd of Maryland.  So, David and Cal are likely closer related to each other than they are to Clint.  While we do not have any matches closer than a genetic distance of 3 at 67 markers, we still are not likely to have common ancestors until about 12 generations and we are only back 9 generations with Clint's oldest known ancestor in the 1730's.  So, we are looking at 1650 or earlier when we should have a common ancestor.  This would make sense if with the historical movement if part of the Boyds fled to Northumberland and some others moved to Ireland as part of the plantations.  We just have to get our trees back a bit farther to find the common ancestors.   Yolanda

Yolanda and others with links to the U-198 group. The purpose of my earlier Email was to tell descendants of William Boyd's from northern Ireland that they not only need to LOOK in Northern Ireland for where this William Boyd came from but within a "few" generations they may/will need to be looking at the Boyds on the Scottish Border and Northern England. It would "appear" that Lord Robert Boyd took at least one relative with him to Alnwick in 1469, but there might have more. With Linda's Robert Boyd, born in 1728. When I was reading Scott Lee Boyd's book of 1935 at Mindy's where worked out that Linda's Robert Boyd, born in 1728 was not the son of William Boyd, who son Robert was underage when he died and therefore born in the 1740's. However, Scott had two other brothers from whom Linda's Robert might have been a son to give use the DNA links that we are getting. I will write to Mindy shortly to get her to Email me these pages. So you will be looking for Boyd families that moved to northern Ireland in the late 1600's AND MOST LIKELY MOVED FROM THE SCOTTISH/ENGLISH BORDER REGION to Ireland. Thank you. Good hunting Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yolanda Boyd" <ymlboyd@sbcglobal.net> To: <boyd@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:42 AM Subject: Re: [BOYD] DNA Link to two separate Boyd Branches and the ScottishBorder Region Hi Mike, Clint is a match to Cal in the U-198 group, but they are a genetic distance of 4 at 67 markers. Clint is a genetic distance of 3 at 67 markers to David Boyd of Maryland. So, David and Cal are likely closer related to each other than they are to Clint. While we do not have any matches closer than a genetic distance of 3 at 67 markers, we still are not likely to have common ancestors until about 12 generations and we are only back 9 generations with Clint's oldest known ancestor in the 1730's. So, we are looking at 1650 or earlier when we should have a common ancestor. This would make sense if with the historical movement if part of the Boyds fled to Northumberland and some others moved to Ireland as part of the plantations. We just have to get our trees back a bit farther to find the common ancestors. Yolanda