This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rah39 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.guernsey/2376.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This is a stretch because it is Albert Boyd, not Halbert. My great-grandmother was Eliza A. Boyd Hughes of Antrim, OH. According to the 1860 Census Eliza was 18 and had a brother named Albert, age 8. She was living with her widowed mother Sarah Boyd who appears to have been married to a Jonathan Boyd. I only mention this because I've gone through a similar frustrating search because my grandparents divorced around the same time as yours. I never knew my grandfather -- my father barely knew him -- and no one ever spoke of him because he "abandoned" the family. Who knows the truth? At any rate, by luck I found a distant cousin I didn't know I had who connected me with his aunt, a niece of my grandfather. It seems my grandfather had lived the last decade or so with their family and none of them ever knew that he had been married or had three children. So keep plugging away; don't give up. You never know when some wild stab in the dark may turn up a connection. There were several Boyd families in Guernsey County at the time (including that of Hopalong Cassidy fame), most of them more noted than Eliza A. She married Joseph Hughes, my great-grandfather. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.