Years ago we lived in Connecticut & had a jillion birds (Cardinals, Pilated Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, etc), and I took a lot of photos traveling around the world. But I can't say I'm a serious birdwatcher or photographer. But we do have Condors flying around here in the southewest....have you ever seen one? They are huge!! JanC ----- Original Message ----- From: "RichBoyd" <RichBoyd@SpeednetLLC.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:01 PM Subject: [ClanBoyd] Photographers (off Topic) > Any photographers on the list? Any birdwatchers? > > See http://www.michigannature.com > > Rich Boyd > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > BOOKS http://clanboyd.info/books/forsale > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >

Well amateur here ! Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "RichBoyd" <RichBoyd@SpeednetLLC.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 8:01 PM Subject: [ClanBoyd] Photographers (off Topic) > Any photographers on the list? Any birdwatchers? > > See http://www.michigannature.com > > Rich Boyd > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > BOOKS http://clanboyd.info/books/forsale > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > >

Any photographers on the list? Any birdwatchers? See http://www.michigannature.com Rich Boyd

To see how a Detroit, Michigan lawyer and famous race car driver of the 1960/70s became 19th Laird of Penkill Castle, Home of the Boyd family for 500 years, see either of these links on my site. http://clanboyd.info/outsideusa/scotland/onemcastle2/index.htm Rich Boyd

FYI: National Archives Inaugurates new On-Line Ordering Service Washington, DC. On June 7, ordering records at the National Archives and Records Administration became easier with a new online service. Family historians can now order copies of selected records from the National Archives online. Electronic versions of the forms used to order Federal pension application files, Census schedules, and Federal land entry files are now available through the new Order Online system, on the National Archives website at: https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonline/ Three of the most genealogically rich records, pension application files of soldiers who fought for the United States beginning in the Revolutionary War (1774) through the Spanish American War (1898), bounty land application files, and homestead application files, are part of the Order Online system. These files often provide information not available elsewhere. Digital copies of samples of the different files are available by clicking on a type of order. Once visitors select a type of file to request, the new Order Online system walks them through the entire process of filling in the required information. Help screens and drop down lists also assist in completing the requests. Order Online requires researchers to register as a user and pay by credit card. The system sends immediate receipt confirmation emails and follows up with a second email letting you know your tracking master number. Order Online also features order tracking which permits you to check on the status of an order at anytime. If researchers do not want to register online, or if they prefer to pay by check or money order, the National Archives will continue to offer the options of ordering reproductions by mail using one of our National Archives Trust Fund forms. Send an email to inquire@nara.gov and specify the type of form needed. The Customer Service Center may be reached by calling 1-86 NARA NARA (1-866-272-6272 ) or by writing Customer Service Center, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. The fee covers the cost of the copies. There is no fee for the search. The National Archives offers copies of the most frequently requested records for family history research through Order Online. The most popular of these are pension application files. These records date from a time before States collected copies of birth certificates and death certificates. In some cases they are only source for valuable family history information. The National Archives offers copies of pension application files for all of the wars until the Spanish American War through Order Online. Researchers interested in pension files can choose from two products. They may order either the full pension file or a packet of documents selected from the pension file. The packet, which costs $14.75, includes copies of the following, if they are found in the file: 1. the original declaration for a pension (the application); 2. declaration for a widow's pension; 3. a statement of service usually provided by the Adjutant General's Office; 4. questionnaires completed by the applicants (numbered forms); 5. "pension dropped" card (usually proof of death); 6. marriage certificates; 7. death certificates; and 8. discharge certificates. Researchers may also request the complete file through Order Online. This version provides a copy of everything in the file including the papers found in a document packet. The application files often contain medical information about ailments resulting from combat wounds or diseases contracted during service. Widow's applications list the names and birthdates of all of the children under the age of 16. If a widow did not have documentation of the wedding or proof of the children's birth, the file can contain depositions from neighbors attesting that the woman was married to the soldier and that the soldier was the father of her children. The full file costs $37. Bounty Land application files are the third type of file that can be requested. Similar to pension applications, the bounty land applications typically provide a statement of the soldier's service and may include family information if the widow applied. These files tend to be smaller and the cost for each complete file is $17.25. Federal land entry files, are also available through Order Online. Some land files, such as homestead applications, contain significant genealogical information. The case files include the name of the applicant, the location of the land, the date the land was acquired, the postal address of the applicant, age or date of birth, place of birth, marital status, and if married, the name of the spouse and the size of the family. Supporting documents can show the immigrants country of birth and sometimes the date and place of arrival in the US. Land entry case files are $17.75 each. The paper version of this form is, Order for Copies of Land Entry Files, the NATF Form 84. The final offering at Order Online is single pages from the Federal Census schedules. Additional records will be available at Order Online as they become available. Soon researchers will be able to order copies of specific pages from a census, a homestead case file, or a bounty land application. ................................................. Kind Regards, Karen from Ohio, USA

Thomas Boyd. Erin's Green Isle has given to the United States some of her worthiest and most energetic citizens. They have been mostly men who commenced in life at the very foot of the ladder, and by a course of energy and perseverance worked their way up to the top-most round. To these scarcely credit enough can be given, as none but themselves can realize what difficulties and discouragements they encountered, overcoming the peculiarities of a new and strange country, a foreign tongue, and at times, the indifference of a people who did not realize the strength that lay within them. The subject of this sketch, a native of the North of Ireland, was born in County Antrim about the year 1830, and continued on his native soil until a youth of eighteen years. He received a limited education, his parents, William and Jane (Preston) Boyd, having been people of very modest means, whose chief aim had necessarily been providing their children with the mere creature comforts. Young Thomas had always been a bright and ambitious lad, thoughtful beyond his years, and at an early age he made up his mind to escape from the beaten path which his father before him had trodden so wearily and with such unsatisfactory results. At the age mentioned he bade adieu to his childhood friends and early associations, and boarding a sailing-vessel at Liverpool, found himself six weeks later on the soil of the Dominion of Canada and in the city of Quebec. Thence he crossed into the State of Vermont, and not long afterward made his way to Livingston County, N. Y., where he engaged! as a farm laborer for a period of four years. In the fall of 1851, he joined the caravan migrating to the young State of Michigan, and for a period of six years thereafter was an employee on the farm of Pearley Bills. Afterward he worked one year for Peter Adams, and had now saved up a little sum of money which he invested in eighty acres of land in that township, and proudly commenced farming on his own account. Mr. Boyd, however, four weeks after commencing work on this land, not satisfied with the outlook, traded it for 160 acres in Raisin Township. This he occupied six years, and then sold out for the sum of $5,000, feeling well repaid for his labor and the improvements which he had put upon it. His next purchase was a farm three miles west of the village of Tecumseh, for which he paid $7,280, and which he operated five years; this he still owns. He subsequently purchased ninety-two acres which was familiarly known as the Fuller farm, and which he now occupies, and has brought to a high state of cultivation. He has remodeled the residence and added a good barn and other outhouses. Mr. Boyd has been an apt scholar in the school of experience. He landed in America with a cash capital of $1, a stranger in a strange land, and the fact that he is now numbered among the wealthy and representative farmers of Lenawee County, is indicative in no small measure of the resolution and e! nergy which have marked his footsteps. After he had laid the foundations for a future home and a competence, Mr. Boyd, when about twenty-five years of age, took to himself a wife and helpmeet, Miss Margaret Calhoun, one of his own countrywomen, but who at the time of their marriage, Nov. 22, 1855, was a resident of Tecumseh Village. Mrs. Boyd is the daughter of Robert and Esther Calhoun, the former of whom died when she was but a little girl. The mother subsequently came to the United States where she died at the home of Mrs. Boyd in November, 1874. Mrs. Boyd became a resident of this county about 1846, and was considered one of the most estimable young ladies of her township. Of her union with our subject there have been born four daughters and one son. The eldest child, Esther A. Boyd, is the wife of Wallace Tilden, and resides in Tecumseh Township; Fanny Boyd married Chester A. Haynes, of Tecumseh Village; Maggie Boyd is at home with her parents; Hattie Boyd , Mrs. Arthur Dibble, lives in Adrian, while Wallace Lavern Boyd continues under the home roof. Mr. Boyd, upon becoming a naturalized American citizen, identified himself with the Democratic party, of which he has since been a warm supporter. Personally he is a fine representative of his warm-hearted Irish ancestry, liberal and public-spirited, always willing to put his shoulder to the wheel in carrying forward the enterprises calculated for the general good of mankind. Source: Portrait and biographical album of Lenawee County, Mich. : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Michigan and of the presidents of the United States. Includes index; Chicago : Chapman Bros., 1888. - FHL Film 1000242 Item 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1880 United States Census Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's BirthplaceMother's Birthplace Thomas BOYD Self M Male W 52 IRE Farmer IRE IRE Margaret BOYD Wife M Female W 47 IRE Keeping House IRE IRE Esther A. BOYD Dau S Female W 23 MI At Home IRE IRE Fanny BOYD Dau S Female W 18 MI At Teaching School IRE IRE Margaret BOYD Dau S Female W 15 MI At School IRE IRE Hattie BOYD Dau S Female W 10 MI At School IRE IRE Wallace L. BOYD Son S Male W 5 MI At Home IRE IRE James BOYD Nephew S Male W 21 IRE Farm Laborer IRE IRE ---------------------------------- 1920 United States Federal Census State: Michigan County: Lenawee Township: Rome Boyd, Wallace L. Farmer 44 MI IRE IRE " , Nettie E. (Harris) 37 OH OH OH " , Francis B. 14? MI MI OH " , Catherine M. 12 MI MI OH " , Basil L. 13? MI MI OH " , Esther M. 07? MI MI OH -- Nettie Harris Boyd

Hi Everyone, The following message is forwarded to you...compliments of Jim Allen, and with the kind permission of the original message poster, Mickey from the Mississippi List: "For anyone looking for a soldier who served in the Civil War I have a web site that makes it easier: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ or you can go to the Miss. UDC website and click on "selected links" and get there - http://www.mississippiudc.homestead.com/ There is a simple form to fill out with basic info - when the list pops up you can click on the soldiers name to get more info and also on the battalion or regiment listed and get a short history on it plus a list of soldiers that served in same. Good luck." Mickey Note: UDC=United Daughters of the Confederacy Kind Regards, Karen from Ohio, USA

Here are the latest bios posted to the Clan Boyd Society web site Go to: http://www.clanboyd.info and click on the prospective link William Boyd ~ Henrietta McWilliams, Knox County, Ohio Thomas Boyd ~ Mahala Norrick, Knox County, Ohio Samuel Boyd ~ Matilda Hastings, Knox County, Ohio John Boyd ~ Margaret O' Hanlan, Knox County, Ohio A. E. Boyd ~ Nellie B. Overbeck, Knox County, Ohio Albert James Boyd ~ Hester Ann Lambert, Hardin County, Ohio Thanks to Karen of Ohio Rich Boyd

Here are the latest bios posted to the Clan Boyd Society web site Go to: http://www.clanboyd.info and click on the prospective link Phebe Boyd ~ Samuel P. Stewart, Van Wert Co, OH Thomas Boyd, Seneca County, Ohio William F. Boyd ~ Catharine McDonald, Perry County, OH John Boyd ~ Margaret Shepard, Noble County, OH Robert Wilson Boyd, Madison County, Ohio Robert Boyd ~ Caroline M. Wilson, Madison County, OH Thanks to Karen of Ohio Rich

I am searching for more information on this line James Boyd Born Approx. 1810 in MD., married Deborah ? born approx. 1815 in MD. had the following children James Jr. born Approx. 1843, Margaret born approx. 1846 in Delaware, Mary born Approx. 1848 in Delaware, Rachel born approx.1851 in MD., Leottie or Leattie born approx.1852 in MD. and William born approx.1858 in MD. this is according to the 1870 census I found for Lower Chichester Township County of Delaware State of PA.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Virginia Boyd Eckert

Hello James Boyd ~ (1) Isabella Campbell (2) CordeliaRogers, Stark County, Ohio David Boyd ~ Rosana Weiser, Seneca County, OH Hugh W. A. Boyd ~ Margaret Longley, Seneca County, OH J. H. Boyd ~ Jessie Bower, Preble County, Ohio Phebe Boyd ~ Samuel P. Stewart, Van Wert Co, OH Thomas Boyd, Seneca County, Ohio To see these new Boyd bios go to: http://www.clanboyd.info Thanks to Karen for these

Mariann, Unfortunately, I don't seem to have any of your family in the Boyd Trees Project. However, if you send me a GEDCOM or FTM file of them, then I could include them as well. Boyd Trees is a data base devoted to any family tree that includes the surname BOYD. Stop by and take a look at what we do have: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees Do your cousins know who and where you are? Mine do. John H. Boyd -----Original Message----- From: Jack & Mariann [mailto:marjac@localnet.com] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:36 PM To: CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ClanBoyd] William Y. BOYD I am looking for information on William Y. BOYD, born around 1801 in Pennsylvania. He married Barbara SHETLER. One of their sons was John I. Boyd, born 1847. He had a son WIlbur. Any information would be appreciated. Mariann ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite BOOKS http://clanboyd.info/books/forsale http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees

I am looking for information on William Y. BOYD, born around 1801 in Pennsylvania. He married Barbara SHETLER. One of their sons was John I. Boyd, born 1847. He had a son WIlbur. Any information would be appreciated. Mariann

I want to thank Karen for all the new information. I haven't seen anything that applies to my line, that I have realized anyway, but remain hopeful. June Cole

Thanks, Karen, you are a wonder!!! Excellant information. Jane in Ohio ----- Original Message ----- From: "RichBoyd" <RichBoyd@SpeednetLLC.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:19 PM Subject: [ClanBoyd] New Boyd info > > Samuel A. Boyd ~ Nannie G. J. Dickey, Coshocton Co, OH > > http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/samuela/index.htm > > > > Robert Boyd ~ Martha Ridenbaugh, Coshocton County, OH > > http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/robert2/index.htm > > > > W. S. Boyd, Coshocton County, Ohio > > http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/wsboyd/index.htm > > > > Thanks to Karen of Ohio for these bios. If you appreciate these > > bios on this list, please send a note to the list. She spends a > > lot of time gathering these items for the web site. > > > > Rich Boyd > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > BOOKS http://clanboyd.info/books/forsale > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > >

Sue, Have you done any diggin' in Canada? Lots of early New Englanders went to Canada after Rev. War. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Tait Porcaro" <suetaitporcaro@comcast.net> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [ClanBoyd] Boyd migrations > My Boyds stayed put in NH and I STILL can't find them! > Eternally looking for: > William Boyd, born NH between 1765-1790 > his wife: > Maria C.Lamprey - born NH same dates > Could Lamprey be a name from a previous marriage? > What could Maria C. stand for? > Their son, William Boyd, born nov 1809/10 in E.Kingston, NH. > William Jr. married Sarah Clark Robertson in Manchester, NH. > Still diggin' > Sue > Windsor, CT > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.683 / Virus Database: 445 - Release Date: 5/12/2004 > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > BOOKS http://clanboyd.info/books/forsale > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >

Samuel A. Boyd ~ Nannie G. J. Dickey, Coshocton Co, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/samuela/index.htm Robert Boyd ~ Martha Ridenbaugh, Coshocton County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/robert2/index.htm W. S. Boyd, Coshocton County, Ohio http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/wsboyd/index.htm Thanks to Karen of Ohio for these bios. If you appreciate these bios on this list, please send a note to the list. She spends a lot of time gathering these items for the web site. Rich Boyd

Lawrence Boyd ~ Adda Boyce, Columbiana County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/lawrence/index.htm Calvin Boyd ~ Media Wier, Coshocton County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/calvin/index.htm Charles H. Boyd ~ Cora B. Funk, Coshocton County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/charlesh/index.htm Erastus Boyd ~ Mary E. Hamilton, Coshocton County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/erastus/index.htm Francis Boyd ~ Jane Lockard, Coshocton County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/francis/index.htm James H. Boyd ~ Angeline Boyd, Coshocton County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/jamesh2/index.htm Thanks to Karen from Ohio for these bios Rich Boyd

Daniel Boyd of Athens County, Ohio http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/daniel2/index.htm Robert Boyd ~ Matilda Baggs, Belmont County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/robert3/index.htm William Boyd ~ Agnes Patterson, Belmont County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/william/index.htm Wm. Howard Boyd ~ Anna Maud Judkins, Cuyahoga Co, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/williamhoward/index.htm George M. Boyd ~ Cora McCuen, Columbiana County, OH http://clanboyd.info/state/Ohio/famhist/georgem/index.htm Thanks to Karen for these bios. Rich Boyd

William Norwood Boyd ~ Lizzie Burwell Warren County, North Carolina http://clanboyd.info/state/NCarolina/famhist/williamn/index.htm Thanks to Karen of Ohio for this bio. Rich Boyd