Over the recent week, I have been working on the family of Daniel Boyd and Jane White of Andover, Allegany county, NY. who had previously lived in County Antrim, Ireland. I have just been told that they travelled from Glasgow to New York on the Monticello (in steerage) and arrived in NYC on 13 May 1847. 1847 was in the middle of the Potato Famine in Ireland. So why did this family – with little money – go to Andover, Allegany County, NY? It would suggest that “other family” might already have been settled there? If so, whom might this be – a sibling or a cousin? Does the 1850 Census provide any other Boyds living in this County? Or did they go there because people for their own area of County Antrim had already moved there and had work for people from “back home”? And do we need to look at the Counties around Allegany County, NY for other possible relatives to Daniel Boyd. In 1847, what work was being undertaken in this area? Was the Erie Canal being built or the railway? >From the tree information that I have it would appear that Daniel was a younger child of his parent’s family. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS