Jeri, It might, but more often it would say something like Icelandic or European or a general area which still leaves you wondering. Respectfully, Deborah 3 Nails + 1 Cross = 4 Given Jeri Blumenthal wrote: >Would DNA reveal what branch of the family we came from, or whether our ancestors came from Scotland or Ireland? >Jeri > > >==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > >

Fellow Listers: Mitochondrial DNA (for females) is far more expensive and cannot be compared to male DNA tests. I have been followinf several other surname lines that are heavily involved in this type of testing (male lines only) and as far as I can see, it only serves to enrich the testing agency. You will not prove too much one way or the other and you will be out all that money. It still comes down to documentation in the end. Hope this helps, Respectfully, Deborah 3 Nails + 1 Cross = 4 Given Jane Sarles wrote: > That is how most of my lines are doing the DNA thing, its true. But I > wonder if any one is doing the female lines. It grates to not be able > to participate. I have no male relatives who maintain the surname on > any of my lines, so cannot take part. > > Jane Wells Sarles > > ----- Original Message ----- From: <RPantalone@aol.com> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 1:14 PM > Subject: Re: [Boyd] DNA > > >> I have another family line that has done DNA. The person doing the >> DNA must >> be a male, therefore, the name most likely would be BOYD. There are >> DNA >> testing kits for GENEALOGY purposes only. If several different BOYD >> lines did >> this it would tell you which line they came from. For instance, it >> would tell >> you whether you belong to the New York Boyds or the New Jersey Boyds by >> matching you with BOYDS from those area's. >> Ruby >> >> >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >> >> > > > I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? > http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > >

Would DNA reveal what branch of the family we came from, or whether our ancestors came from Scotland or Ireland? Jeri

National Geographic also has DNA testing going on. It's my understanding that the female lineage is traced through the female DNA, and the male lineage is traced through the male DNA. My aunt and uncle, both Boyds, just did the test through National Geo. Here's the link to more info: https://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/ -~ Jodie ~- -----Original Message----- From: Jeri Blumenthal [mailto:nomad661@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:12 PM To: CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Boyd] DNA Wow! DNA? Very CSI. Does anybody know what a DNA test would likely reveal with regard to Boyds? Jeri Boyd ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees

As I am going thru ancient notes I made in the 60s I ran across this note which might interest some people: Congress, May 8, 1781 RESOLVED: That every chaplain, deemed and certified to the Board of War to be supernumerary, be no longer continued in service and be entitled to have their depreciation made good, and to the half-pay of Captains for life. Officers entitled to half pay: Pennsylvania: Lieut. John Boyd MD: Lieut Thomas BOyd NC: Chaplain Adam Boyd PA: Capt William McKay (this family was related to the Boyds) Anna Grace

At the present time, parish records are NOT available on-line through the LDS site....you may search the card catalog to see if their is microfilm or microfiche that you would like to order to look at at your local Family History Center. Natalie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > I'm not sure if the LDS has the exact same puter program on-line, but the > LDS on-line is www.familysearch.com > > I went to the FHC (a church library with computers)....not online. > > Jan C > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:42 AM > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > >> Thank you for that, how about via the internet address? Sandy >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> >> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:02 PM >> Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE >> >> >> > You may want to do a search for a parish record on your >> > gr.grandfather...they were big on baptism, but not necessarily birth > cert. >> > >> > I went to the LDS Family History Center & looked up parish records in >> > Scotland, and found mine. >> > >> > JanC >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> >> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 11:59 PM >> > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE >> > >> > >> > > Yes right across Australia we have lots of flies in the summer, you >> > haven't >> > > seen the Aussie salute? Well it's putting your hand up to brush away >> the >> > > flies. I'm still trying to find a birth certificate for my >> g.grandfather >> > > Alexander Boyd, parents were James Boyd and Janet McEwan in Muthill, >> > > Perthshire, Scotland if anyone out there can possibly help. Sandy >> (AHBS) >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> >> > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> >> > > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:18 PM >> > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE >> > > >> > > >> > > > Oh, you have a lot of flies in NSW. I live in the SW corner of > Utah, >> > St. >> > > > George, near Zions Nat. Park. We don't have many flies, just a >> jillion >> > > > wildfires in the summer. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> >> > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> >> > > > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:25 AM >> > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > I live in NSW and the flies are terrible they'd carry you away in >> the >> > > > > summer. Sandy (Alexandra Helen Boyd (m/s Wilson) Stevenson >> > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > > > From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> >> > > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> >> > > > > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 1:18 PM >> > > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > We flew into Darwin, and scuba dived on the Great Barrier Reef. >> > What >> > > > > makes >> > > > > > you think I haven't been in Australia? >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > > > > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> >> > > > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> >> > > > > > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 3:14 AM >> > > > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > > You obviously haven't been to Australia. Sandy >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> > > > > > RING OF BOYDS >> > http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> > > > > RING OF BOYDS >> http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> > > > RING OF BOYDS > http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> > > > >> > > > >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> > > >> > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> > >> > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >> >> >> > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > >

I feel so grateful to know something about each generation's personalities, foibles, interests, not just a name on a piece of paper. None of them was particularly famous or even notorious but they did write letters and diaries, some of which I have or have seen. And I had a grandmother who loved to tell family stories and with whom I spent a great deal of time. On Jul 11, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Jan Curtis wrote: > So fun....this is what genealogy is all about! > > JanC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:31 AM > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > >> Once every few years I drive over to my gr. grandfather's Plantation, >> Green Plains, in Matthews County. I have really old photos of the >> place, of his wife and daughter, of the place before someone with lots >> of money gentrified it, sometimes even sit on the porch if no one is >> around and view the ice house where, it is told, his sister in law >> locked the Yankee soldier in. (Someone said that if all the stories of >> Yankee soldiers in ice houses were true there wouldn't have been any >> Northern Army left to fight) >> >> On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Jan Curtis wrote: >> >>> Anna - that's the fun part of genealogy! >>> >>> Years ago I went to Va, rented a car & drove all over counties there, >>> and I >>> went to the VA State Library. I jumped over streams & waded Rivers >>> in >>> King >>> & Queen Co., Spotslvania, Orange, Botetourt. I found a lot of info, >>> and it >>> was way cool to walk around my 6th gr.grandfathers original 5,000 >>> acres in >>> Spots & Orange...1732 land grant. Part of it was shopping centers & >>> parking >>> lots, but it was interesting to imagine how it was when Anthony owned >>> it. >>> >>> JanC >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> >>> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:28 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE >>> >>> >>>> There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I >>>> have >>>> found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an >>>> interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish >>>> here >>>> in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, >>>> Asbury >>>> McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now >>>> known >>>> as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish >>>> named >>>> Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer >>>> exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the >>>> St. >>>> James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure >>>> enough >>>> there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't >>>> think >>>> anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's >>>> exciting to find something you've just heard about. >>>> Anna Grace Boyd Foster >>>> >>>> >>>> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >>>> RING OF BOYDS >>>> http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >>>> >>>> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- >>>> trees >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >>> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >>> >>> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- >>> trees >>> >> >> >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- >> trees >> >> >> > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > trees >

And remember....all of them made the U.S. what it is. ----- Original Message ----- From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 8:56 PM Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > I feel so grateful to know something about each generation's > personalities, foibles, interests, not just a name on a piece of paper. > None of them was particularly famous or even notorious but they did > write letters and diaries, some of which I have or have seen. And I had > a grandmother who loved to tell family stories and with whom I spent a > great deal of time. > > On Jul 11, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Jan Curtis wrote: > > > So fun....this is what genealogy is all about! > > > > JanC > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:31 AM > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > >> Once every few years I drive over to my gr. grandfather's Plantation, > >> Green Plains, in Matthews County. I have really old photos of the > >> place, of his wife and daughter, of the place before someone with lots > >> of money gentrified it, sometimes even sit on the porch if no one is > >> around and view the ice house where, it is told, his sister in law > >> locked the Yankee soldier in. (Someone said that if all the stories of > >> Yankee soldiers in ice houses were true there wouldn't have been any > >> Northern Army left to fight) > >> > >> On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Jan Curtis wrote: > >> > >>> Anna - that's the fun part of genealogy! > >>> > >>> Years ago I went to Va, rented a car & drove all over counties there, > >>> and I > >>> went to the VA State Library. I jumped over streams & waded Rivers > >>> in > >>> King > >>> & Queen Co., Spotslvania, Orange, Botetourt. I found a lot of info, > >>> and it > >>> was way cool to walk around my 6th gr.grandfathers original 5,000 > >>> acres in > >>> Spots & Orange...1732 land grant. Part of it was shopping centers & > >>> parking > >>> lots, but it was interesting to imagine how it was when Anthony owned > >>> it. > >>> > >>> JanC > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>> From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> > >>> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > >>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:28 PM > >>> Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > >>> > >>> > >>>> There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I > >>>> have > >>>> found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an > >>>> interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish > >>>> here > >>>> in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, > >>>> Asbury > >>>> McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now > >>>> known > >>>> as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish > >>>> named > >>>> Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer > >>>> exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the > >>>> St. > >>>> James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure > >>>> enough > >>>> there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't > >>>> think > >>>> anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's > >>>> exciting to find something you've just heard about. > >>>> Anna Grace Boyd Foster > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > >>>> RING OF BOYDS > >>>> http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > >>>> > >>>> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > >>>> trees > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > >>> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > >>> > >>> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > >>> trees > >>> > >> > >> > >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > >> > >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > >> trees > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > > trees > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >

Wow! DNA? Very CSI. Does anybody know what a DNA test would likely reveal with regard to Boyds? Jeri Boyd

So fun....this is what genealogy is all about! JanC ----- Original Message ----- From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > Once every few years I drive over to my gr. grandfather's Plantation, > Green Plains, in Matthews County. I have really old photos of the > place, of his wife and daughter, of the place before someone with lots > of money gentrified it, sometimes even sit on the porch if no one is > around and view the ice house where, it is told, his sister in law > locked the Yankee soldier in. (Someone said that if all the stories of > Yankee soldiers in ice houses were true there wouldn't have been any > Northern Army left to fight) > > On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Jan Curtis wrote: > > > Anna - that's the fun part of genealogy! > > > > Years ago I went to Va, rented a car & drove all over counties there, > > and I > > went to the VA State Library. I jumped over streams & waded Rivers in > > King > > & Queen Co., Spotslvania, Orange, Botetourt. I found a lot of info, > > and it > > was way cool to walk around my 6th gr.grandfathers original 5,000 > > acres in > > Spots & Orange...1732 land grant. Part of it was shopping centers & > > parking > > lots, but it was interesting to imagine how it was when Anthony owned > > it. > > > > JanC > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:28 PM > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > >> There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I have > >> found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an > >> interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish here > >> in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, Asbury > >> McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now known > >> as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish > >> named > >> Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer > >> exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the St. > >> James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure > >> enough > >> there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't > >> think > >> anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's > >> exciting to find something you've just heard about. > >> Anna Grace Boyd Foster > >> > >> > >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > >> > >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > >> trees > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > > trees > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >

Sonia - I was asked to participate in a DNA test a couple of years ago, but then they found out I was a woman....lol they only wanted male lineage.....try Molecular Genealogy www.smgf.org, or mfolston@ifox.com. It's the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy foundation, reconstructing worldwide genealogies. I think they are in Utah. JanC ----- Original Message ----- From: "sonia samson" <ssonias@globetrotter.net> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:48 AM Subject: [Boyd] DNA test > Hi everybody! > > what the best DNA test for i will find if I'm related to Boyd family. I find two site and two price, familytree 99$ and DNAboyd 169$ I realy don't know it's the for me ( see letter can somebody help me). thank you Debbie and Patricia for your help! > > Sonia > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >

I'm not sure if the LDS has the exact same puter program on-line, but the LDS on-line is www.familysearch.com I went to the FHC (a church library with computers)....not online. Jan C ----- Original Message ----- From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:42 AM Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > Thank you for that, how about via the internet address? Sandy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:02 PM > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > You may want to do a search for a parish record on your > > gr.grandfather...they were big on baptism, but not necessarily birth cert. > > > > I went to the LDS Family History Center & looked up parish records in > > Scotland, and found mine. > > > > JanC > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 11:59 PM > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > Yes right across Australia we have lots of flies in the summer, you > > haven't > > > seen the Aussie salute? Well it's putting your hand up to brush away > the > > > flies. I'm still trying to find a birth certificate for my > g.grandfather > > > Alexander Boyd, parents were James Boyd and Janet McEwan in Muthill, > > > Perthshire, Scotland if anyone out there can possibly help. Sandy > (AHBS) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:18 PM > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > > > > Oh, you have a lot of flies in NSW. I live in the SW corner of Utah, > > St. > > > > George, near Zions Nat. Park. We don't have many flies, just a > jillion > > > > wildfires in the summer. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> > > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > > > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:25 AM > > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > > > > > > > I live in NSW and the flies are terrible they'd carry you away in > the > > > > > summer. Sandy (Alexandra Helen Boyd (m/s Wilson) Stevenson > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> > > > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > > > > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 1:18 PM > > > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We flew into Darwin, and scuba dived on the Great Barrier Reef. > > What > > > > > makes > > > > > > you think I haven't been in Australia? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> > > > > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > > > > > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 3:14 AM > > > > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You obviously haven't been to Australia. Sandy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > > > > > RING OF BOYDS > > http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > > > > RING OF BOYDS > http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > > > > > > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > > > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >

Thank you for that, how about via the internet address? Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > You may want to do a search for a parish record on your > gr.grandfather...they were big on baptism, but not necessarily birth cert. > > I went to the LDS Family History Center & looked up parish records in > Scotland, and found mine. > > JanC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 11:59 PM > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > Yes right across Australia we have lots of flies in the summer, you > haven't > > seen the Aussie salute? Well it's putting your hand up to brush away the > > flies. I'm still trying to find a birth certificate for my g.grandfather > > Alexander Boyd, parents were James Boyd and Janet McEwan in Muthill, > > Perthshire, Scotland if anyone out there can possibly help. Sandy (AHBS) > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:18 PM > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > Oh, you have a lot of flies in NSW. I live in the SW corner of Utah, > St. > > > George, near Zions Nat. Park. We don't have many flies, just a jillion > > > wildfires in the summer. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:25 AM > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > > > > I live in NSW and the flies are terrible they'd carry you away in the > > > > summer. Sandy (Alexandra Helen Boyd (m/s Wilson) Stevenson > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Jan Curtis" <jcurtis@infowest.com> > > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > > > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 1:18 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > > > > > > > We flew into Darwin, and scuba dived on the Great Barrier Reef. > What > > > > makes > > > > > you think I haven't been in Australia? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "alistair Stevenson" <alijohn@optusnet.com.au> > > > > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > > > > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 3:14 AM > > > > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You obviously haven't been to Australia. Sandy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > > > > RING OF BOYDS > http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > > > > > > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > > > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > >

In a message dated 7/10/2005 8:31:30 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, agfoster@headscheme.com writes: I don't think anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's exciting to find something you've just heard about. Congratulations on your find. What a thrill something like that can be! Madora

Hi everybody! what the best DNA test for i will find if I'm related to Boyd family. I find two site and two price, familytree 99$ and DNAboyd 169$ I realy don't know it's the for me ( see letter can somebody help me). thank you Debbie and Patricia for your help! Sonia

Especially ice houses in VA! Karen -----Original Message----- From: agfoster@headscheme.com [mailto:agfoster@headscheme.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 9:32 AM To: CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE Once every few years I drive over to my gr. grandfather's Plantation, Green Plains, in Matthews County. I have really old photos of the place, of his wife and daughter, of the place before someone with lots of money gentrified it, sometimes even sit on the porch if no one is around and view the ice house where, it is told, his sister in law locked the Yankee soldier in. (Someone said that if all the stories of Yankee soldiers in ice houses were true there wouldn't have been any Northern Army left to fight) On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Jan Curtis wrote: > Anna - that's the fun part of genealogy! > > Years ago I went to Va, rented a car & drove all over counties there, > and I > went to the VA State Library. I jumped over streams & waded Rivers in > King > & Queen Co., Spotslvania, Orange, Botetourt. I found a lot of info, > and it > was way cool to walk around my 6th gr.grandfathers original 5,000 > acres in > Spots & Orange...1732 land grant. Part of it was shopping centers & > parking > lots, but it was interesting to imagine how it was when Anthony owned > it. > > JanC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:28 PM > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > >> There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I have >> found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an >> interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish here >> in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, Asbury >> McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now known >> as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish >> named >> Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer >> exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the St. >> James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure >> enough >> there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't >> think >> anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's >> exciting to find something you've just heard about. >> Anna Grace Boyd Foster >> >> >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- >> trees >> >> >> > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > trees > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees

Once every few years I drive over to my gr. grandfather's Plantation, Green Plains, in Matthews County. I have really old photos of the place, of his wife and daughter, of the place before someone with lots of money gentrified it, sometimes even sit on the porch if no one is around and view the ice house where, it is told, his sister in law locked the Yankee soldier in. (Someone said that if all the stories of Yankee soldiers in ice houses were true there wouldn't have been any Northern Army left to fight) On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Jan Curtis wrote: > Anna - that's the fun part of genealogy! > > Years ago I went to Va, rented a car & drove all over counties there, > and I > went to the VA State Library. I jumped over streams & waded Rivers in > King > & Queen Co., Spotslvania, Orange, Botetourt. I found a lot of info, > and it > was way cool to walk around my 6th gr.grandfathers original 5,000 > acres in > Spots & Orange...1732 land grant. Part of it was shopping centers & > parking > lots, but it was interesting to imagine how it was when Anthony owned > it. > > JanC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:28 PM > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > >> There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I have >> found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an >> interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish here >> in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, Asbury >> McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now known >> as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish >> named >> Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer >> exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the St. >> James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure >> enough >> there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't >> think >> anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's >> exciting to find something you've just heard about. >> Anna Grace Boyd Foster >> >> >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite >> >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- >> trees >> >> >> > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > trees >

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There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I have found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish here in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, Asbury McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now known as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish named Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the St. James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure enough there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't think anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's exciting to find something you've just heard about. Anna Grace Boyd Foster

Anna - that's the fun part of genealogy! Years ago I went to Va, rented a car & drove all over counties there, and I went to the VA State Library. I jumped over streams & waded Rivers in King & Queen Co., Spotslvania, Orange, Botetourt. I found a lot of info, and it was way cool to walk around my 6th gr.grandfathers original 5,000 acres in Spots & Orange...1732 land grant. Part of it was shopping centers & parking lots, but it was interesting to imagine how it was when Anthony owned it. JanC ----- Original Message ----- From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I have > found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an > interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish here > in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, Asbury > McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now known > as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish named > Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer > exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the St. > James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure enough > there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't think > anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's > exciting to find something you've just heard about. > Anna Grace Boyd Foster > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >