Your direct Boyd tree. An example! This is an example of my own direct Boyd tree that people can post to the various sites to see f they can find other researchers to make a connection I would like to trace the ancestors of James Boyd of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, the father of Thomas Boyd, back to Scotland and the Boyd family of Kilmarnock. It would also be nice to find any siblings of Thomas who might have stayed in Ireland or gone to the United States or Canada. My direct family is:- S? James Boyd, b 17xx, d 18xx, bu , m 17xx, Ann Nester, dau of and (nee ) Nester, b 17xx, d 18xx, bu , and had issue:- [Lived: , Killarney?, Co. Kerry, Ireland ] - James appears to have lived at Killarney at least between 1792 (date Thomas [T1] was born) and 1807 (date Thomas enlisted in the 61st Regiment of Foot). T1 Thomas Boyd, b / /1792 (Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland), d 25/4/1858 (Mount Street, St. Leonards, Sydney), bu the Catholic Burying Ground (site of Town Hall), Sydney, m 1816 (likely Catholic Church, Aghada, Co. Cork), Eleanor Roach/Roche, dau of Thomas and Elizabeth (nee Brown) Roach, bc 1796 (Co. Cork), d 8/2/1881 (Mount Street, St. Leonards, Sydney), bu Devonshire Street (this could either be in the city or in Crow's Nest), Sydney, and had 9 children:- [Lived: , St. Leonards, Sydney NSW ] - Thomas and family came to Sydney, Australia in 1826, from Ireland, with the Royal New South Wales Veteran Company. He was discharged from this unit at the age of 40 and farmed his 100 acres grant of land at Turramurra, Sydney. He later became involved in the timber industry, with a yard in Sussex Street, Sydney. U5 Thomas Boyd, b 24/2/1826 (at sea in South Atlantic Ocean on board John Barry), d 26/8/1884 (Terranora, Tweed River, NSW), bu Chinderah, Tweed River, NSW, m 1849 or 1852 ( , NSW), Mary Murray, dau of Thomas and Ellen (nee Evans) Murray, bc 1833, d 9/1/1872 (Tweed River, NSW), bu , Tweed river, NSW, and 8 children:- [Lived: Tweed River, NSW ] - Along with his 3 brothers was amongst the very early Cedar Getters in the Tweed River Valley in 1850's. V3 Thomas Murray Boyd, b 1856 (Tweed River), d 15/4/1926 (Murwillumbah, NSW), bu Main Street Cemetery, Murwillumbah, NSW, m 7/2/1882 ( , NSW), Susannah Knight, dau of James and Anne (nee Dale) Knight, b 1860 (Kyogle, NSW), d 28/2/1901 (Murwillumbah), Main Street Cemetery, Murwillumbah, NSW, and had 10 children:- [Lived: Condong, Via Murwillumbah, NSW ] - He at the age of 12 years held the first freehold land on the Tweed River, NSW. W7 John (Jack) Reginald Boyd, b 29/9/1893 (Dungay, NSW), d 28/1/1968 (Murwillumbah), bu New General Cemetery, Murwillumbah, m 5/12/1915 (Albert Street Methodist Church, Brisbane, QLD), dau of Walter and Eliza (nee Crawford) Jarrett, b 6/8/1896 (Nowra Hill, NSW), d 22/2/1992 (Murwillumbah), bu Garden of Remberance Cemetery, Murwillumbah, and had 4 children:- [Lived: Dulguigan, via Murwillumbah, NSW ] X3 John (Jack) Charles Boyd, b 3/12/1921 (Murwillumbah), d 3/3/1985 (Murwillumbah), bu Lawn Cemetery, Murwillumbah, m 16/10/1943 (Macquarie St, Sydney), Nancy Winifred McIlvride, dau of James and Margaret (nee Stokes) McIlvride, b 22/2/1922 (Murwillumbah), and had 2 children:- [Lived: Dulguigan, via Murwillumbah NSW 2484 ] The above 4 generations all lived in the Tweed River valley. Y1 Michael (Mike) John Boyd, b 6/8/1944 (Randwick, Sydney), m 15/12/1975 (Curtin, ACT), Jean Anne Duncan, dau of James and Jean (nee Thomas) Duncan, b 30/10/1951 (Kyogle), d 1/6/2002 (26 Blackhorse Drive, Kuraby, Brisbane, bu , Tweed Valley, NSW, and had issue:- [Address:] - I have three children and 11 grandchildren. This tree in 1984, represented a book of 175 pages. And when I update it in the next few years, it will grow to 250 or 300 pages. Late last year I found out that my DNA test results were I-M223, which is different from the main Boyd DNA group of R-U198. Also, late last year, I found out that I had close DNA connections to two non-Boyd names. For the last 40 years I have been searching for my “Male” Boyd ancestors. But if I understand these two queries correctly, it may mean that we go back to a “female”, whom at sometime had an affair with a man whom was not a BOYD, and could be a third surname. This event most likely took place in Scotland, but when it happened, we are yet to find out. And I would assume that her son was brought up as a BOYD, within her father’s family. I will update this tree through the new Clan Boyd Family Facebook page and/or the CLANBOYD-HOB.groups.io net list in furture. If you have any connections to any of these generations, I would like to hear form you please, so that your “section” can be added to this Boyd Branch. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee Clan Boyd Society, International Brisbane, Aust. ([email protected]