Attentions cousins worldwide!! Specially the Boyds of Texas! Get your tartan ready! The Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games: May 13, 14, and 15, 2016 Arlington Texas at the Maverick Stadium on the campus of University of Texas/ Arlington House of Boyd Society will have a tent hosted by our Convenor for Texas. Please come help us out at the tent. It's fun! Bring your genealogy. There have been lots of new breakthroughs, come and get caught up on all the newest research. Saturdays and Sundays are cool if your thing is the Games but this year most of the action will be Friday night. The parade, the calling of the clans, the lone piper, and opening ceremonies will be followed by a massive bar-b-que event with live music by the Kildares!!! Genealogy workshops! Try to come out Friday night and march with the Boyds! http://www.texasscottishfestival.com/

Folks It does not seem that long ago - in 2012 - that I came from Brisbane to help Barry with his first Games at Maverick Stadium. 1) Barry, do you know what other Ayrshire clans might have a tent at this years Games? The Boyd married into many Scottish Clans, but many of these were in Ayrshire - such as the Cunninghams, Montgomeries, Muir, Crawfords, Blair, Kerr, Wallace, Kennedy to just name a few. So it would be very good also see if any of these "other" Ayrshire clans will have a tent there as well so Boyd researchers can visit them as well. Is it possible to form a "Ayrshire Clan Group", so that if someone is looking for a particular Ayrshire clan - and they do not have a tent at the Games - that we can have a separate list to record their names so that can be sent onto that Clan Society? 2) When I was there there were a number of ventures who had Boyd products? Do you know if there will be any ventures selling Boyd products? Last year when I was in Scotland, I tried about 10 or 12 shops to find a Boyd "strap and motto" badge without any success. Would any of these ventures of Boyd tartan cloth! Hear I am thinking of cloth to make a Boyd tartan tablecloth for Thanks giving or other special events like birthdays, etc I assume you ladies will have other suggestions as to what might be made from this cloth as well. If members are on any of the Texas rootsweb.con County sites, you may wish to mention to them that Barry will have a Boyd tent at Arlington and they are most welcome to call into it. Enjoy the weekend Mike Boyd Brisbane, Aust. -----Original Message----- From: Barry Boyd via Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 2:55 AM To: Boyd rootsweb Subject: [BOYD] Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games Attentions cousins worldwide!! Specially the Boyds of Texas! Get your tartan ready! The Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games: May 13, 14, and 15, 2016 Arlington Texas at the Maverick Stadium on the campus of University of Texas/ Arlington House of Boyd Society will have a tent hosted by our Convenor for Texas. Please come help us out at the tent. It's fun! Bring your genealogy. There have been lots of new breakthroughs, come and get caught up on all the newest research. Saturdays and Sundays are cool if your thing is the Games but this year most of the action will be Friday night. The parade, the calling of the clans, the lone piper, and opening ceremonies will be followed by a massive bar-b-que event with live music by the Kildares!!! Genealogy workshops! Try to come out Friday night and march with the Boyds!