Kentucky County Histories, by the Turner Publishing Company It would seem that in the 1980’s and 1990’s, the Turner Publishing Company in conjunction with County Committees, published quite a number of “County Histories” in the USA. If you are not aware of this work, it would be well worth asking your local Library, if there is any Turner Publishing Company for the County or Countries that you are looking at in the USA for your Boyd (and other families). From the "Family histories: Christian County, Kentucky," Publisher Turner Publishing co, 1986, ISBN 093802101X (v.1) [Not sure which page number], it uses this “STYLE”, to describe individual families in three columns per page. “BOYD – JOHNSON Cyrus Albert Boyd was born to George Ennis (3-1-1831/10-11-1917) and Susan Adeline Fuller Boyd (11-29-1839/9-26.1886). Cyrus was the eighth of ten children: M. A. (9-?-1859/9-?-1860), Schrince J (4-16-1861/10-27-1947), M E(4-12-1863/9-11-1864), Parthenia Josie (?-?- 1864/?), Robert Anderson (12-30-1868/12-141939), John F. (11-12-1870/7-11-1907), George Ennis Jr., (6-25-1872/8-15-1873), Cyrus Albert (8-16-1875/1-26-1937), Susan Mildred (11-19-1877/8-9-1944), and James H. (6-28-1879/2-5/1891) were all born in the Hamby Community of North Christian County. Cyrus paternal grandparents were James Boyd ….” This is not what I would call an “Family History” with sources cite and their reference given as to the source of this data. I would call this a “Newspaper” style of writing. While it is not as good as the “Family History”, but it is far better than a black page, or having no knowledge at all about your families origins and structure in earlier generations. In this case it does provide valuable “hints” that can be used to do FURHTER RESEARCH on this family. 1) It wells whom are Cyrus Albert Boyd’s parents are – George Ennis Boyd and Susan Adeline Fuller. 2) It also tells you whom his Boyd grandparents are – James Boyd. (Although when I copied form the Thumb Drive, I only copied a single paragraph.) 3) It tells you where the family of George Ennis Boyd, was living when all of his 10 children were born – in Hamby Community of North Christian County, KY. So, this allows you to search for birth, death, burial/Cemetery, Church, Census and other records that are based on this location. And it will also allow you to search any books or publications on this location as well. But it does mean that you will be able to take the various facts given, to determine if you can build these “family histories” so that you can be reasonable confident, that this data does link to your family and will fill in those missing branches that you did not know about or could not find data on. (IT WILL GIVE YOU AN OUTLINE AND STRUCTURE – BUT NOT THE FULL PICUTURE.] As I said, we copied about 20 of these “Kentucky County histories” and I think, at the time there were about 20 or so Boyd families in each publication. Thus, making some 400 Boyd families – with some being joined together with other articles. It seems that the way they were copied, I can’t transfer them onto my PC as Word Documents, but I will have to type up each individually in the New Year and post the articles to the net list for members benefit and help them to make links with branches they may currently know nothing about. Or if members wish, I could type up this list and post to the Net list, so that I could attach that Thumb Drive FILE, to an Email. (If I can get that to work?) I know that not only did we copy the Boyd families, but also those families where Boyds were include. Mike Boyd Brisbane, Aust.