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