I am in a discussion with a Boyd/Irvine group who had family in PA that came to Brunswick Co., VA which is now Campbell Co., VA in the 1730's. These families are "thought" to come from Ulster. A Mary Boyd married a John Irvine in the late 1720's and had their fist child on the voyage to America. "The Lucinda Boyd book "Irvines and Their Kin", published 1908 but American part essentially finished by 1896. This book is really a collection of "pieces" she gathered from various family tradition sources. She did not edit them and provided no documentation. There are contradictions from one part to another. As to the Bedford/Campbell Co., VA Irvines, it appears she ignored information and warped other to make three of them three of the "seven brothers". This way, she could use the info she obtained from Ireland and Scotland to take their ancestry back four centuriies. She includes a statement from the Irish genealogist, Mary Semple, that Lucinda was not correct in her interpretation of what was being sent in one case." It seems that Mary Semple was doing her work from about 1900 to 1920. Would anyone know if any of her papers/work survived and where might they be kept? Thank you Mike Boyd Brisbane