I have a male cousin in Victoria BC if that's any good to you. Alexandra Helen Boyd Stevenson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rhonda Brown" <rb5@charter.net> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [ClanBoyd] Looking for a Male Boyd Descendant of The Nathan Boyd South Carolina Boyds for a DNA Sample > L, > > Sorry, I am a female, but have two brothers - we are in the Aaron Boyd/Judie > Henry line. What is this Y-DNA thing and what does it involve? I may can > talk one of them into doing this, but I would like more information. > > Rhonda Boyd Brown > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "LAWRENCE BOYD" <lboydaz@cox.net> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 1:32 PM > Subject: [ClanBoyd] Looking for a Male Boyd Descendant of The Nathan Boyd > South Carolina Boyds for a DNA Sample > > > > I sent the following message to the list, but pasted a family outline that > was too large for space limits. So, I cut it down to three generations and > am sending it again. > > > > Hi all you Boyds and Kin, > > > > Are you or do you know a living Male Boyd descendant of the Nathan Boyd > (1760) branch of South Carolina Boyds? This is the family that is quite > well documented in an LDS Ancestral file starting down from John Boyd (1740) > and Jane Barnardoe from Ireland. Names of descendants include Joseph, > David, George, Thomas, James, and Lemuel (note that Lemuel is uncommon among > Boyds). Some of these South Carolina Boyds stayed in South Carolina while > others migrated to Louisiana and other places. I will sponsor Y-DNA 10 > marker samples for at least two of these Boyds. We have reason to believe > > that these Boyds are connected to our Ontario, Canada Boyds (see > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lboyd/) and to a family of Boyds who settled > in Missouri (under construction). We can do this through Cal Boyd's Boyd > Y-DNA Project at http://www.geocities.com/boyddna/. Lots of fun and nothing > to lose - and besides you might discover all kinds of Boyd kin. > > Below is a three-generation outline of that large South Carolina Boyd > family. The complete file exists in John Boyd's great Boyd World Connect > archive at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees. > > > > By the way, I am a living testimony of the great potential of Y-DNA > genealogy. After 25 years of document and interview research on you Boyd > family we hit the proverbial brick wall and stayed there until I submitted a > Y-DNA sample to Cal Boyd's project. Only recently and out of the blue a got > a message that this person's uncle matched my DNA. This was a Boyd that we > would never have picked out of the 200-300 Boyds on this planet through > document research alone. This Boyd lives in Missouri. We did a 37 marker > test to be certain and it was a perfect match. The significance of this > event is that there was a branch of our Boyds who settled in the United > States, not Canada - that we knew nothing about. Now, the fun begins. We > traced this family back to a Lemuel M. Boyd of Missouri, born about 1825 in > Jefferson County, MO, married to Rachel Harden (Hardin or Harding). We > cannot identify his father and thereby trace that line back to County > Armagh, Northern Ireland where w! > > e think we will find our common ancestor. While we continue this route, we > are pursing the DNA approach on the South Carolina Boyds. This family also > has a Lemuel M. Boyd and other similarities to the Missouri Boyds and our > Ontario Boyds. > > > > Please get in touch if you are one of these Boyds or have any leads to > one. > > > > Lawrence Hugh Boyd > > Tempe, Arizona > > > > Descendants of John Boyd > > 1 John Boyd 1740 - 1815 > > .. +Jane Barnardoe 1747 - Unknown > > ........ 2 Joseph Boyd 1767 - Unknown > > ............ +Charity English 1783 - 1805 > > ................... 3 David Cannon Boyd 1805 - 1881 > > ....................... +Syrena Leech 1803 - 1879 > > ........ *2nd Wife of Joseph Boyd: > > ............ +Rutha C. Fredericks - Unknown > > ................... 3 William Edward Boyd 1846 - Unknown > > ........ 2 Nathan Boyd 1768 - 1826 > > ............ +Elizabeth Tygart 1770 - 1826 > > ................... 3 John Boyd 1792 - 1826 > > ....................... +Unknown - Unknown > > ................... 3 Joshua Boyd 1794 - 1854 > > ....................... +Elizabeth Henry 1795 - 1854 > > ................... 3 Aaron Boyd 1796 - Unknown > > ....................... +Judie Henry 1800 - 1841 > > ................... 3 Caleb Boyd 1798 - 1830 > > ....................... +Patience Leek 1802 - Unknown > > ................... *2nd Wife of Caleb Boyd: > > ....................... +Janie Moody 1802 - Unknown > > ................... 3 George Daugherty Boyd 1802 - 1830 > > ....................... +Sarah Ann ?? - Unknown > > ................... 3 James Boyd 1804 - 1834 > > ....................... +Elizabeth Hunt - Unknown > > ................... 3 Mark Moore Boyd 1806 - 1900 > > ....................... +Elizabeth Epting 1813 - 1871 > > ................... 3 Lewis Myers Boyd 1813 - Unknown > > ................... 3 Hester Ann Boyd 1813 - 1825 > > ................... 3 Wesley Glenn Boyd 1815 - Unknown > > ........ 2 David Boyd 1769 - Unknown > > ........ 2 Elizabeth Boyd 1772 - 1860 > > ............ +Jacob H. Frederick - Unknown > > ........ 2 Jane Boyd 1775 - Unknown > > ............ +Jacob Wiggons - Unknown > > ........ 2 David Leslie Boyd 1780 - 1825 > > ............ +Elizabeth Duke 1779 - 1878 > > ................... 3 Larenzadow Boyd - Unknown > > ................... 3 Amy Boyd 1806 - Unknown > > ....................... +Ezekiel Jefferson Hunnicutt 1808 - 1891 > > ................... 3 [3] John Hiram Boyd 1811 - 1880 > > ....................... +[2] Mary Jane Keasler 1816 - 1862 > > ................... *2nd Wife of [3] John Hiram Boyd: > > ....................... +Martha Jane Sullivan Cook - Unknown > > ................... 3 James Lafayette Boyd 1820 - 1905 > > ....................... +Margaret C. Knox 1842 - 1926 > > ................... 3 Elizabeth E. Boyd 1825 - 1907 > > ....................... +William S. Robinson 1805 - 1858 > > ........ 2 Samuel Boyd 1783 - 1850 > > ............ +Mary Ann Thompson 1788 - 1859 > > ................... 3 Jane Boyd - 1860 > > ....................... +James M. Murphy 1802 - 1879 > > ................... 3 James Jackson Boyd 1808 - 1875 > > ....................... +Rebecca Roberds 1809 - 1877 > > ................... 3 Nancy Boyd 1810 - 1862 > > ....................... +Aaron Nix 1809 - 1862 > > ................... 3 Simon Jeremiah Boyd 1812 - 1862 > > ....................... +Isabel ?? 1820 - 1854 > > ................... *2nd Wife of Simon Jeremiah Boyd: > > ....................... +Lavisa (BROWN) Funderburk - Unknown > > ................... 3 John Washington Boyd 1813 - 1862 > > ....................... +Harriett Belinda Roberds 1826 - Unknown > > ................... 3 Elizabeth Boyd 1814 - Unknown > > ....................... +John Adams 1785 - Unknown > > ................... 3 Christina Boyd 1816 - Unknown > > ....................... +Thomas Aiken Stewart 1812 - 1871 > > ................... 3 Frances Catherine Boyd 1818 - 1897 > > ....................... +James Thomas Samuel Cockerham 1818 - 1879 > > ................... *2nd Husband of Frances Catherine Boyd: > > ....................... +[1] Green Thompson Roberds 1822 - 1890 > > ................... 3 Mary A. Thompson Boyd 1818 - Unknown > > ....................... +John Leland Ross 1816 - 1850 > > ................... *2nd Husband of Mary A. Thompson Boyd: > > ....................... +Cyrus Lee Ross 1823 - 1890 > > ................... 3 Samuel P. Boyd 1821 - Unknown > > ....................... +Rebecca Ann Cain 1825 - Unknown > > ................... 3 Lydia Ansabell Boyd 1827 - 1869 > > ....................... +[1] Green Thompson Roberds 1822 - 1890 > > ................... 3 William Riley Boyd 1839 - Unknown > > ........ 2 John Boyd 1785 - Unknown > > ............ +Elizabeth ?? - Unknown > > ........ 2 Nancy Boyd 1787 - 1850 > > ............ +Abraham Keasler 1785 - 1860 > > ................... 3 John Keasler 1803 - Unknown > > ....................... +Ruth ?? - Unknown > > ................... 3 Henry Keasler 1805 - 1865 > > ....................... +Luncida Wardlaw - Unknown > > ................... *2nd Wife of Henry Keasler: > > ....................... +Elinor ?? - Unknown > > ................... *3rd Wife of Henry Keasler: > > ....................... +Rosa Stephens Hawkins - Unknown > > ................... *4th Wife of Henry Keasler: > > ....................... +Margaret Hendrix - Unknown > > ................... 3 Samuel Keasler 1808 - Unknown > > ................... 3 David Keasler 1812 - Unknown > > ....................... +Elizabeth ?? - Unknown > > ................... *2nd Wife of David Keasler: > > ....................... +Amanda McKee Linsey - Unknown > > ................... 3 Abraham Keasler, Jr. 1814 - Unknown > > ....................... +Sarah ?? - Unknown > > ................... 3 [2] Mary Jane Keasler 1816 - 1862 > > ....................... +[3] John Hiram Boyd 1811 - 1880 > > ................... 3 James Keasler 1819 - Unknown > > ................... 3 Nancy J. Keasler 1824 - Unknown > > ................... 3 Joseph Cephus Keasler 1825 - Unknown > > ................... 3 Nathan Keasler 1828 - Unknown > > ................... 3 William Keasler 1830 - Unknown > > ................... 3 Lemuel Keasler 1832 - Unknown > > > > > > ==== 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 > > > > > > > ==== 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 > >