Mike, I think there will be several of us coming by plane to Boston, but. I spoke last friday to my best friend Hugh McGowan who lives in Summerville (Boston). He is driving his jeep up to Loon on the Friday so you have a ride if nobody else is renting a car in Boston. He might be able to drive you around Boston a couple days, too. I should get there Thursday night but I also might make the drive all the way from Baltimore Friday morning and skip Boston. There is lots of time for all of this to fall in place but planning must begin That's what I have so far. Barry On 4/4/2016 9:18 AM, Colin Brooks via wrote: > Mike, > Your ambitious as usual and forgetting we are not Ireland or England. > Bus and train service sucks. SO, only option I can see is Concord Bus lines > http://www.concordcoachlines.com/ > They can take you to all those places and be the closest arrival spot > for Loon Mt. Hopefully, Boyds with cars can get you to the games. > > Researching this area/region is pretty straight forward. > #1- NEHGS in Boston as you mentioned. However, the Massachusetts State > Archives, http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcsrch/searchwelcome.html , is a > close second and does include material not held at NEHGS. PLEASE don't > waste your time with Gary Boyd Roberts at NEHGS. His answer has not changed > since 2004 "Can't research those Irish and don't really know the Boyd > family". > #2- Concord New Hampshire. New Hampshire Historical Society is the place > to go and if you ask nicely, they may bring you the 1718 Petition. Take > pictures of the Boyd signatures cause I have some Boyd documents I may be > able to compare. The State Archives is a place you could spend a week, and > maybe cull together all the individual Boyd records. Unfortunately, you > don't have that time so I would focus on the NHHS time. > #3 Londonderry. ONLY as an historical observation ie paintings, graves, > walking the historical sites etc. They have little clue about their real > heritage, and to this day are unaware of the family/history of the Robert > Boyd who's portrait hangs outside the "genealogy" room. > > Sorry for the negativity, but you have little time to waste on useless > research. > >