Dear Michel, Thank you for writing about your quest. I don't have any information on this person, but perhaps someone else on the BOYNTON email list does. I will forward the message to that list and ask anyone who does to respond to you directly. As for where to look for information in the US, probably the easiest would be in the US Census, which is taken every 10 years, but it is organized by town or county in each state so you would need to know where he lived. However, there are indexes available on CD-ROMs and on some websites that might help. Allegany is close to Pittsburg, so that does help narrow your search to that part of western Pennsylvania at least. You might also look in some of the websites that have name searches available, such as http://www.ancestry.com or http://www.rootsweb.com There is a genealogy of the Boynton family, but I have just moved and my genealogy books are still packed in boxes, otherwise I'd look in there for you. Perhaps someone else on the list can take a moment to look for him and let you know if he's listed. Happy hunting! >Hello, > > >I am French and I am working for my pleasure on a Paul Boyton's biography >and I have many difficulties to understand in which archives or in which >way to search in USA; I have several original letters from him >whom wrote to her French girl friend; I will like to know, mainly, if Paul >Boyton married her. >I dont know what can I do for obtain those information; I explored many >web sites and I discovered your site. > >"My Paul Paul Boyton" bornt perhaps at Pittsburgh 1848 and leaved at >Allegany in 1858 - He died on April 19, 1924 Brooklyn - there is a >memorial plaque placed at Luna park in honour of one of his invention of >shoot-the-chutes ride. > >Here a reference I found: > >Captain Paul Boyton continued to live in the Brooklyn area until died on >April 19, 1924. A memorial plaque was placed at Luna Park in honor of his >invention of the Shoot-the-Chutes ride. While he was the orginator of the >enclosed amusement park concept at Coney Ilsand, he was always annoyed that >people, especially newspaper reporters continued to mispell his name as >Boynton instead of Boyton. > >Like you can see in this text that he was sometimes called Boynton perhaps >that explains my difficulties to find something concening him? > >His father is dead in 1869 and he was married before 1892; He has 3 >sisteurs (one of them is Theresa) and three brothers Michael (engineer) and >the other one officer in japanese army. > > >Does someone can help me? > >Best regards > > > >Michel > >MICHEL LOPEZ >http://www.histoire.org/scriptmani >http://www.univ-lemans.fr/~lopez Katherine Cochrane <mailto:katherine@cd-info.com> The CD-Info Company, Inc. In our 4th year on the Web, serving the Compact Disc publishing and manufacturing communities at http://www.cd-info.com & http://www.cd-webstore.com Now available! A new edition of Chris Andrews' "Education of a CD-ROM Publisher: An Insider's History of Electronic Publishing" ~~~~ See http://www.cd-webstore.com for more information ~~~~